'When was the last time you read a press release from a mainstream art gallery which stated that the artist’s prayers provided a spiritual spark that catalyzed the creation of the paintings and that those paintings are a visual ‘sermon’ articulating faith, amplifying relationship with God, and providing a sanctuary for a world in need of healing?
The most likely answer would be never. However, ‘Lakwena: Homeplace’ at Hastings Contemporary describes Lakwena Maciver’s work as painted prayers and meditations while the BP Young Portrait Artist Award 2020 went to Egbert Modderman, a painter of characters and stories from the Bible.
Described as a devotional painter whose work is powerfully influenced by Bible verses and other readings she studied in church, Genesis Tramaine is therefore one of several emerging artists who, by operating at the intersection of religion and the cultural zeitgeist, are changing contemporary art-making through artistic practices that shape a new discourse.'
Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here.
Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here.
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