As the Courtyard Cafe and Shop reopen there are also several excellent exhibitions that can be seen straightaway or very soon:
‘With the Heart of a Child’: A sculpture installation and exhibition by Nicola Ravenscroft
Thursday 15 April 2021
Sunday 25 July 2021
‘With the Heart of a Child’ sees seven life-size bronze children, one from every continent on Earth, simply dressed in soft silk tulle, hesitate in time, leaning forward, hopeful, poised to dive, eyes closed, dreaming into their future, anticipating things unseen.
Nicola Ravenscroft writes that, ‘As an artist, I am visionary, sculptor, mother to many, and grandmother to even more’, she breathes life into life taking ‘clay, dirt and stardust, shaped and twisted torn smoothed and broken lost, found and moulded wax and singing molten bronze through white-hot crucible-refining fire, Earth’s own core breathing life into revealing-truth, a giving-birth to energy.’
The result is this installation of eco-earthling-warrior-mudcubs – children intimately connected to the earth – reminding us of our duty of care to life, to love, to planet Earth.
Nicola has recently been commissioned to create a memorial to honour the bravery of front-line NHS and care workers in the fight against Covid. The project has the backing of Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock and members of the public are currently being asked to propose a fitting name for the memorial. Her work has consistently inspired musicians, including her husband saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft (‘A little child shall lead them’) and, most recently, Tim Watts, assistant director of music at St. John’s College Cambridge, who is composing a piece in response to bas sculpture reliefs on paper titled ‘Among the Words of Trees’. Examples of work from each of these projects are included in this exhibition in addition to ‘With the Heart of a Child’.
Out of Home Exhibition
Friday 23 April 2021
Saturday 31 July 2021
What would the Covid-19 Pandemic have been like if you had no home?
Out of Home tells a story of Central London, by a group of people – Carly, Darren, Kelly, Craig, Joe, and Andre – for whom that was the case.
During a time when we were all told to ‘stay at home’, lockdowns have presented unique challenges for homeless people.
Even if selling The Big Issue was allowed, few regular customers were on the streets.
Even if a stranger wanted to give you £5, there have been few strangers on the streets.
And even if you had money, particularly in Central London, there were few places to spend it, and often only in shops where costs were higher.
Over lockdown, Dan Barker & Lucy Wood paid homeless people to take photographs each day, using disposable cameras.
Loose guidelines were agreed with each of the people in the project.
Try to take photographs in the day if possible, when there is light, but if not possible night is fine
Take photographs of things you find interesting, or would like to photograph
For each camera you’ll be paid £20, with ideally a maximum of 1 camera per day, but flexible where it could help
Try to spend less than 1 hour 45 taking photos in any given day, meaning that the work was paid at London Living Wage
Many others ebbed and flowed in and out of the project, some stayed with it throughout. During the project, some have filled a few disposable cameras, some have filled a camera with photographs every day.
This exhibition features the work of six of them: Carly, Darren, Kelly, Craig, Joe, and Andre.
Kelly Francis died during the project, age 39, and this exhibition is also in her memory.
Credits:
The Out of Home exhibition is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, St Martin-in-the-Fields Trust, and supported by Panos Pictures. The book Out of Home is available at www.outofhome.org.uk. Proceeds from the exhibition go toward the positive works of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and to the photographers.
The Out of Home project was funded and organised by Dan Barker & Lucy Wood. Other kind people offered assistance. Full acknowledgements can be found at www.outofhome.org.uk.
Visit www.panos.co.uk for more information on Panos Pictures
Visit www.outofhome.org.uk for more information on the Out of Home project, to buy prints, or to buy the book, to further support St-Martin-in-the-Fields or the photographers
Adam Dant – The Return of London at St Martin-in-the-Fields Exhibition
Saturday 01 May 2021
Saturday 31 July 2021
We are delighted to announce Adam Dant‘s solo exhibition – The Return of London at the Crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields. A collection of limited edition prints and original drawings including maps that salute London’s Theatres, Lost Rivers and bustling London Squares.
Adam has created a brand new commemorative map to mark the 300th anniversary of the first foundation stone being laid at the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Unveiled for all to enjoy for the first time at The St-Martin-in-the-Fields Crypt Gallery ‘The Novel Map of the Parish of St Martin in the Fields’ forms the exciting centrepiece for an exhibition of the artist’s lively depictions of London public spaces. Using Dant’s novel map, visitors are encouraged to revive the tradition of ‘beating the bounds’ of The Parish of St-Martin in the Fields, walking its perimeter so to reaffirm their memory of the streets and sights that have lain unvisited through a year of lockdown.
Visitors to the exhibition will also be able to enjoy large scale prints from Dant’s series of depictions of ‘London Squares’ including, on show for the first time, his depiction of the vibrant tumult and turmoil of nearby Leicester Square. The exhibition is the perfect way to celebrate a return to our extraordinary capital after twelve long months and salute St Martin-in-the-Fields’ significant 300th anniversary.
Adam Dant – The Return of London at the Crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JH Open daily 12 – 5pm
For further information and images please contact Hobby Limon info@tagfinearts.com
t + 44 (0)20 7688 8446
m + 44 (0)7968 099 945
About artist, Adam Dant:
Adam is an international renowned artist whose large-scale narrative drawings and prints can be found in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon as well as many leading private collections including that of HRH The Prince of Wales
Adam was the recipient of a prestigious Rome Scholarship in etching and engraving, is a winner of the Jerwood Drawing Prize and in 2015 was appointed by the UK Parliament as official artist of the General Election
Dant’s ‘Maps of London and Beyond’ book was awarded the gold award at the 2018 International Creative Media Awards and First prize in the travel category at the 2019 Catholic Herald book awards
Limited edition prints are published by TAG Fine Arts and available at www.tagfinearts.com
Exhibition details:
‘The Return of London’ exhibition will be on view in the Crypt at St Martin-in-the-Fields, from 12pm to 5pm, from May 1st, and will run throughout Summer at St Martin’s (Entrance via the glass Pavilion on St Martin’s Path)
The church’s famous Courtyard will be open for food and refreshments during exhibition hours
The St Martin’s Shop will be stocked with several new, bespoke ‘beating the bounds’ gifts
Nearest London Underground stations; Charing Cross, Embankment and Leicester Square
‘With the Heart of a Child’: A sculpture installation and exhibition by Nicola Ravenscroft
Thursday 15 April 2021
Sunday 25 July 2021
‘With the Heart of a Child’ sees seven life-size bronze children, one from every continent on Earth, simply dressed in soft silk tulle, hesitate in time, leaning forward, hopeful, poised to dive, eyes closed, dreaming into their future, anticipating things unseen.
Nicola Ravenscroft writes that, ‘As an artist, I am visionary, sculptor, mother to many, and grandmother to even more’, she breathes life into life taking ‘clay, dirt and stardust, shaped and twisted torn smoothed and broken lost, found and moulded wax and singing molten bronze through white-hot crucible-refining fire, Earth’s own core breathing life into revealing-truth, a giving-birth to energy.’
The result is this installation of eco-earthling-warrior-mudcubs – children intimately connected to the earth – reminding us of our duty of care to life, to love, to planet Earth.
Nicola has recently been commissioned to create a memorial to honour the bravery of front-line NHS and care workers in the fight against Covid. The project has the backing of Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock and members of the public are currently being asked to propose a fitting name for the memorial. Her work has consistently inspired musicians, including her husband saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft (‘A little child shall lead them’) and, most recently, Tim Watts, assistant director of music at St. John’s College Cambridge, who is composing a piece in response to bas sculpture reliefs on paper titled ‘Among the Words of Trees’. Examples of work from each of these projects are included in this exhibition in addition to ‘With the Heart of a Child’.
Out of Home Exhibition
Friday 23 April 2021
Saturday 31 July 2021
What would the Covid-19 Pandemic have been like if you had no home?
Out of Home tells a story of Central London, by a group of people – Carly, Darren, Kelly, Craig, Joe, and Andre – for whom that was the case.
During a time when we were all told to ‘stay at home’, lockdowns have presented unique challenges for homeless people.
Even if selling The Big Issue was allowed, few regular customers were on the streets.
Even if a stranger wanted to give you £5, there have been few strangers on the streets.
And even if you had money, particularly in Central London, there were few places to spend it, and often only in shops where costs were higher.
Over lockdown, Dan Barker & Lucy Wood paid homeless people to take photographs each day, using disposable cameras.
Loose guidelines were agreed with each of the people in the project.
Try to take photographs in the day if possible, when there is light, but if not possible night is fine
Take photographs of things you find interesting, or would like to photograph
For each camera you’ll be paid £20, with ideally a maximum of 1 camera per day, but flexible where it could help
Try to spend less than 1 hour 45 taking photos in any given day, meaning that the work was paid at London Living Wage
Many others ebbed and flowed in and out of the project, some stayed with it throughout. During the project, some have filled a few disposable cameras, some have filled a camera with photographs every day.
This exhibition features the work of six of them: Carly, Darren, Kelly, Craig, Joe, and Andre.
Kelly Francis died during the project, age 39, and this exhibition is also in her memory.
Credits:
The Out of Home exhibition is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, St Martin-in-the-Fields Trust, and supported by Panos Pictures. The book Out of Home is available at www.outofhome.org.uk. Proceeds from the exhibition go toward the positive works of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and to the photographers.
The Out of Home project was funded and organised by Dan Barker & Lucy Wood. Other kind people offered assistance. Full acknowledgements can be found at www.outofhome.org.uk.
Visit www.panos.co.uk for more information on Panos Pictures
Visit www.outofhome.org.uk for more information on the Out of Home project, to buy prints, or to buy the book, to further support St-Martin-in-the-Fields or the photographers
Adam Dant – The Return of London at St Martin-in-the-Fields Exhibition
Saturday 01 May 2021
Saturday 31 July 2021
We are delighted to announce Adam Dant‘s solo exhibition – The Return of London at the Crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields. A collection of limited edition prints and original drawings including maps that salute London’s Theatres, Lost Rivers and bustling London Squares.
Adam has created a brand new commemorative map to mark the 300th anniversary of the first foundation stone being laid at the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Unveiled for all to enjoy for the first time at The St-Martin-in-the-Fields Crypt Gallery ‘The Novel Map of the Parish of St Martin in the Fields’ forms the exciting centrepiece for an exhibition of the artist’s lively depictions of London public spaces. Using Dant’s novel map, visitors are encouraged to revive the tradition of ‘beating the bounds’ of The Parish of St-Martin in the Fields, walking its perimeter so to reaffirm their memory of the streets and sights that have lain unvisited through a year of lockdown.
Visitors to the exhibition will also be able to enjoy large scale prints from Dant’s series of depictions of ‘London Squares’ including, on show for the first time, his depiction of the vibrant tumult and turmoil of nearby Leicester Square. The exhibition is the perfect way to celebrate a return to our extraordinary capital after twelve long months and salute St Martin-in-the-Fields’ significant 300th anniversary.
Adam Dant – The Return of London at the Crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JH Open daily 12 – 5pm
For further information and images please contact Hobby Limon info@tagfinearts.com
t + 44 (0)20 7688 8446
m + 44 (0)7968 099 945
About artist, Adam Dant:
Adam is an international renowned artist whose large-scale narrative drawings and prints can be found in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon as well as many leading private collections including that of HRH The Prince of Wales
Adam was the recipient of a prestigious Rome Scholarship in etching and engraving, is a winner of the Jerwood Drawing Prize and in 2015 was appointed by the UK Parliament as official artist of the General Election
Dant’s ‘Maps of London and Beyond’ book was awarded the gold award at the 2018 International Creative Media Awards and First prize in the travel category at the 2019 Catholic Herald book awards
Limited edition prints are published by TAG Fine Arts and available at www.tagfinearts.com
Exhibition details:
‘The Return of London’ exhibition will be on view in the Crypt at St Martin-in-the-Fields, from 12pm to 5pm, from May 1st, and will run throughout Summer at St Martin’s (Entrance via the glass Pavilion on St Martin’s Path)
The church’s famous Courtyard will be open for food and refreshments during exhibition hours
The St Martin’s Shop will be stocked with several new, bespoke ‘beating the bounds’ gifts
Nearest London Underground stations; Charing Cross, Embankment and Leicester Square
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