Art events update

Tonight the Private View for the 82nd Annual Exhibition of The National Society of Painters, Sculptors & Printmakers was held. The exhibition is at the Menier Gallery until Saturday 11 July. The National Society is a charity with 80 artists showing a wide variety of art, from modern to classical styles in three disciplines. The aim of the society is give emerging artists a platform to exhibit in a major London gallery. The exhibition includes work by commission4mission artists, Elizabeth Duncan-Meyer and Peter Webb.

Yesterday, at St Martin-in-the-Fields, a reception was held to celebrate the loan of the painting Parameter by Mark Francis as part of the St Martin-in-the-Fields Art Programme curated by Modus Operandi and overseen by the St Martin-in-the-Fields Arts Advisory Panel.

Mark Francis says of this work: “Parameter is one of a series of paintings created between 2011 and 2014. The main concern of this series revolves around the use of the grid in relation to different types of networks. Earlier paintings focused on more organic and fluid forms with more chaotic connections. The grid has been an important form throughout my painting practice as it presents a structure within which more ‘random’ incidents can occur. Amongst other influences, the internet, cartography, circuit boards and transport systems provide a stimulus to make the paintings.”

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M. Ward - Psalm.

c4m webpage update (42)

New items on the commission4mission webpage include details of exhibitions featuring Nadiya Pavliv and Elizabeth Duncan Meyer. My most recent exhibition review questions, as a stimulus to debate, approaches taken by Christian arts organisations to the church-based exhibitions we organise and this section of my review has been posted. Additionally, there is a post about funding awarded to commission4mission from London-over-the-Border to publicise the extent to which churches in the Barking Episcopal Area of the Diocese of Chelmsford contain significant art and craft works by creating an Art Trail for the Episcopal Area and documenting this Trail in an Art Trail leaflet.

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Nickel Creek - Out Of The Woods.

c4m webpage update (36)

The latest posts to the commission4mission webpage include information about the forthcoming Grace & Passion exhibition to be held at St Laurence's Upminster from 21st - 28th March and the Networking Evening which will be held during the exhibition (22nd March, 7.30 - 9.00pm) focussing on painting the Passion. in addition, there are new photographs of work by Henry Shelton on the Stations of the Crown of Thorns commission at St Paul's Goodmayes, the current Seeds of Life art programme at St Andrew's Leytonstone, and a profile of our newest member, Elizabeth Duncan Meyer.

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Katie Melua - The Closest Thing To Crazy.