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Wednesday, 3 April 2024

Artlyst: The Art Diary April 2024

My April Art Diary for Artlyst covers exhibitions as far apart as Salem, Massachusetts, Hong Kong, Venice, Cumbria, Welwyn Garden City and London:

'Sophie Hacker’s ‘The Infinity Series’ exhibition offers a chance to appreciate some of her recent artwork, inspired by and created in response to a new Reredos painting at St Marylebone Parish Church. This work, “A Sea of Glass Like unto Crystal”, has recently been installed as a commission for the Church to complete the ‘lunette’ of John Compton’s impressive apse composition. Canon Jeremy Haselock describes the work as showing, beneath the heavenly throne, “a swirling cosmic sea, a vortex of divine love, drawing into salvation the whole created and uncreated order.”'

See here for my HeartEdge interview with Sophie, here for my Church Times interview, and here for my ArtWay interview.

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U2 - A Sort Of Homecoming.

Tuesday, 28 April 2020

Stations of the Cross

'Stations of the Cross' is an ongoing series of exhibitions depicting the crucifixion of Christ, curated by Ben Moore, in support of the Missing Tom Fund.

‘Stations of the Cross’ 2014 and 2015 were held at St. Marylebone Parish Church and then at St. Stephen Walbrook in 2018.

These Lenten exhibitions included works by Francis Bacon, Sebastian Horsley, Mat Collishaw, Wolfe Lenkiewicz, Polly Morgan, Paul Benney, Robin Mason, Charlie Mackesy, Alison Jackson and Antony Micallef.

Art Below showcased many of the works on billboard space at London Underground stations that had a link to the theme including Kings Cross, Temple, Angel, Charing Cross and St.Paul’s.

A website documenting the exhibitions has been created and includes two articles I have written about reactions to these exhibitions. One explores protest or engagement in terms of Church responses to controversial art and the other reflects on the 2018 exhibition and reactions to it.

Proceeds from the 'Stations of the Cross' exhibition go to the 'Missing Tom' fund, which was started up specifically to raise money to support the search for Thomas Moore. Tom left his family home in 2003. He was 31 years old. His friends and family have not heard from him since then. With the support of the Missing People Charity his family continue to search for Tom.

www.missingtom.com

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Lou Reed - Dime Store Mystery.

Sunday, 18 March 2018

Stephen Newton: Artistic creation & transcendental feeling

I'm currently reading 'The Spiritual Unconscious: Stephen Newton - Paintings and Drawings 1975-96'. Newton argues that there is an abstract ‘core’ of creativity which generates the spirituality of both the icon and the abstract.

He quotes Wilhelm Worringer from 'Abstraction and Empathy':

‘To transcendentalism of religion there always corresponds a transcendentalism of art, for which we lack the organ of understanding only because we obstinately insist upon appraising the vast mass of factual material in the whole field of art from the narrow angle of vision of our European-Classical conception. We perceive transcendental feeling in the content, to be sure; but we overlook it in the real core of the process of artistic creation, the activity of the form-determining will’.

'It is this abstract ‘core’ of creativity which generates the spirituality of both the icon and the abstract. It is this access through the materiality of form to a communion with the supernatural and an ek-stasis which invoked the wrath of the iconoclasts, and not, as is usually assumed, because the image of the deity is figuratively symbolised.'

'The original genesis of such a spirituality is in creative structure and experience, which arguably underpins art, religion and also psychoanalysis. Put simply, this creative experience might generally be described as involving some sort of transcendental, therapeutic, transformative and ecstatic process, which can involve actual ek-stasis , an ‘out of body’ experience ...

This spiritual, creative structure turns up in various guises throughout human history; in mysticism; in ancient oracles; in African tribal dance and ritual; in all religious and spiritual experience; and throughout mythology. I think its most recent genuine or ‘authentic’ manifestation is in the advent of modern abstract art, as practised in its purest sense by artists such as Kandinsky, Mondrian, Rothko, De Kooning, Guston and others.'

Newton's work is included in the Priseman Seabrook Collection which was established by British artist Robert Priseman and his wife Ally Seabrook in 2014. The collection is formed into three categories – 21st Century British Painting, 20th and 21st Century British Works on Paper and Contemporary Chinese Works on Paper. The focus of each collection is on painting and drawing made by hand. Priseman also founded ‘Contemporary British Painting’, an artist led organisation which exhibits in the crypt of St Marylebone Parish Church exploring and promoting current trends in British painting through group exhibitions, talks, publications and the donation of paintings to art museums.

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Enya - Echoes In Rain.

Saturday, 2 April 2016

St Marylebone Parish Church: Contemporary British Painting

Robert Priseman, Exhibition Curator at St Marylebone Parish Church writes:

"We are launching a new platform for exciting new painting in the UK under the title Contemporary British Painting. Each month we will be showcasing the work of a painter who we both admire and are intrigued by through a series of intimate exhibitions at the crypt in St. Marylebone Parish Church, London. We will explore and document key concerns and themes from the perspective of practicing painters, where successive artist to artist interviews will generate text which will be published first on-line and then as a book of the same name.

In drawing together this group of artists we are discovering a new cohort of painters who believe in and live by painting and for whom their practice is less a matter of choice and more a matter of necessity. In recent years painting has seemed, if not entirely off the institutional radar then at least subsumed into a definition of art practice where it is only one choice among many. Yet there seems to be emerging from these artists a new painting that has a particular 21st century resonance; a painting pursued as a singular activity experienced uniquely by each artist yet within the context of their own social networks and interactions.

And it is this unique 21st century practice which is now being explored in this new series of exhibitions; a series of shows which simultaneously demonstrate a marked diversity of approach amongst artists who are united by their commitment to the simple act of painting, where paint becomes a metaphor for experience, a philosophical meditation on the nature of our very being in the world. Here, everything, every thought, every action and every observation is mediated through paint, reflecting more broadly the movement of art away from a defining progress by ‘isms’ and towards a concentration on media where the only new ‘ism’ is an assertion of individualism. It is within this context that we begin to find a tendency in painting towards the modest, the humane and the philosophical, where painting itself is an expression of the individual experience within a complex world.

The artists, developing critical texts, new series of ‘Painter to Painter’ interviews and programme can be seen at http://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/."

Contemporary British Painting are also showing 'Notes from China', a series of delicate works on paper by 17 living artists from China, at The Minories, Colchester until Saturday 16 April 2016 at then, from 3 – 31 October 2016, at The Crypt, St Marylebone, London.

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China Crisis - King In A Catholic Style (Wake Up).

Saturday, 7 February 2015

Stations of The Cross and Holocaust

Work by Christopher Clack features again in the second Stations of The Cross exhibition to be held at St Marylebone Parish Church. Art Below presents an exhibition of 16 artists’ representations of the Passion of Christ in London’s St. Marylebone Parish church to coincide with Lent, in support of the Missing Tom Fund.

Stations of the Holocaust is an exhibition of hand carved and painted sculptures on the theme of Jesus’ last hours juxtaposed with scenes of the Jewish Holocaust by another commission4mission member, Jean Lamb, which can be seen at Coventry Cathedral from Monday 16th February to Good Friday 3rd April 2015. There will be a preview of the exhibition from 5.00pm with the official opening at 6.00pm after Evening Prayer on Monday 16th February.

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Tribe of Judah - Sublime.

Saturday, 29 March 2014

X Factor Jesus fails to get Tfl's vote

The Guardian reports that:

"The artwork shows a bound Jesus being judged by an X-Factor-style jury and for 40 days it will hang over worshippers in the church where Byron was christened. But while the Church of England has welcomed the image, it has led to an unholy row with Transport for London.

TfL has taken exception to the piece by artist Antony Micallef that was scheduled to appear on tube platform posters during Lent, alongside other contemporary art interpretations of the passion of Christ that have been deemed acceptable by the transport authority.

Micallef said he was disappointed by the veto. "I am angry because it is censorship, it is someone taking a quick decision on behalf of someone else and it is silly. It is not offensive. I don't understand why the church said yes and the tube said no."

The black-and-white painting plays with the idea of how Jesus would be judged in 2014, and shows him before a smiling panel of four judges. Instead of Pop Idol on the desk, it says "Kill Your Idol"."

Art Below is presenting an exhibition of 20 artists representations of the Passion of Christ in London’s St. Marylebone’s Parish Church for 40 days, in support of the Missing Tom Fund. The exhibition includes work by commission4mission's Christopher Clack.

The exhibition runs for 40 days to coincide with Lent. The exhibition is open to the public whilst the works are also intended for prayer and meditation within the parish congregation.

To coincide with the exhibition, public arts enterprise Art Below is showcasing some of the 14 works on billboard space throughout the London Underground at stations that have a symbolic link with the theme, including King’s Cross, Marylebone, Marble Arch, St. Paul’s, Angel, Temple and Tower Hill.

6th March – 17th April 2014 St. Marylebone Parish Church Marylebone Road London, NW1 5LT.

‘Stations of the Cross’ is the second exhibition to be curated by Art Below founder Ben Moore to raise proceeds for the Missing Tom Fund. With the support of his family and the Missing People Charity, Moore set up the Missing Tom Fund in 2013 to raise money for the search for his older brother Tom who has been missing for 10 years.

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Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah.

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Lent Exhibition: Stations of the Cross

Art Below presents an exhibition of 20 artists representations of the Passion of Christ in London's St. Marylebone's Parish Church for 40 days, in support of the Missing Tom Fund. Among those exhibiting will be commission4mission member Christopher Clack.

Opening on the 6th March, the exhibition will run for 40 days to coincide with Lent. The exhibition will be open to the public whilst the works are also intended for prayer and meditation within the parish congregation.

To coincide with the exhibition, public arts enterprise Art Below will showcase all 14 works on
billboard space throughout the London Underground at stations that have a symbolic link with the theme, including King’s Cross, Marylebone, Marble Arch, St. Paul’s, Angel, Temple and Tower Hill.

‘Stations of the Cross’ is the second exhibition to be curated by Art Below founder Ben Moore to raise proceeds for the Missing Tom Fund. With the support of his family and the Missing People Charity, Moore set up the Missing Tom Fund in 2013 to raise money for the search for his older brother Tom who has been missing for 10 years.

The first exhibition highlighting the Missing Tom Fund was the hugely acclaimed ‘Art Wars’, which was held at the Saatchi Gallery in October 2013 and featured artists including Damien Hirst, David Bailey, Yinka Shonibare and Jake and Dinos Chapman.

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Good Charlotte - The River.