If only
If only my eyes could sink under the surface
and join those mackerel shoals in their matching suits
whose shivering inner selves all inter-mirrored
all in agreement with water
wear the same
wings
An extract from: NOBODY, a book length poem by Alice Oswald
published by Jonathan Cape in 2019
Arts Chaplaincy Projects connects arts practitioners with spiritual communities and encourages religious enquiry in arts research. We seek to operate via agency not power and criticality without hierarchy. All always welcome 🏳️🌈
4 May: Linda Mary Montano, Evensong with video, voice and organ, Holy Trinity, Prince Consort Rd
8 June: [TBC]
6 July: St Pancras Church
An annual series of exhibitions by Chelsea MA Fine Art students alongside artists from the church
Chelsea BA Fine Art students researching contested legacies in St Paul’s Cathedral
with José Carlos Diaz, Adrian Rifkin, Tina Beattie, Jarel Robinson-Brown
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?
30 practice-led conversations, held in collaboration with Goldsmiths College
An art project for Lent, leading to an online exhibition for Easter, with 36 artists showing 140 works
a project building on connections made during The Spiritual Exercises, with 72 artists working in 24 collaborations
An online exhibition mediating memory and longing via the parameters of the present, featuring 100 artists
A project exploring the potential of craft-based practices for communal healing, working between London and Peru
A penitential mass with five video and sound works replacing the choral parts
A collaborative exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of St George’s Interdenominational Chapel at Heathrow Airport
An exhibition of work by ten recent art and design graduates from Central Saint Martins in the Crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields, reconnecting the college and the church that founded it
An Easter vigil with 14 video works projected onto the Henry Moore altar in St Stephen Walbrook Church, interspersed with readings and silence, culminating in a dawn Eucharist
A series of talks across UAL focusing on the relation between creative and spiritual practices, with Faisal Abdu’Allah, Bonnie Camplin, Lucy Newman Cleeve, Sophie Gorton, Sarah Lightman, and Justin Senryū Williams
