Church Times - Art review: Seeing the Unseen at Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham

My latest exhibition review for Church Times is on Seeing the Unseen: Reality and Imagination in the Art of Stanley Spencer at The Stanley Spencer Gallery:

'While the naivety of some of Spencer’s imagery and ideas can lead to a dismissal of his work as a whole, his affirmative, inclusive and reconciliatory impulses and images are surely close to the compassionate heart of the incarnation. For all his personal fallibilities and the shortcomings of some images, it is hard to think of many other modern artists in whose work the compassionate heart of Christ beats as steadily and fully, and for that we should be profoundly grateful.'

For more on Stanley Spencer, see here and here.

Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. My writing for ArtWay can be found here. My pieces for Artlyst are here, those for Seen & Unseen are here, and those for Art+Christianity are here.

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Sara Watkins - Take Up Your Spade.