Ecclesiart: Reaching 100

Victoria Rance, Comforter, 2008 at St Laurence, Catford

Ecclesiart is an online project that raises awareness of significant works of contemporary art since 1920 in UK churches and cathedrals. The selected works represent the diversity of high quality church commissions and reflect developments in artistic practice and ecclesiastical art and design.

 We seek to encourage increased responsibility towards works which may be under-appreciated or at risk and hope that this selection of works provides inspiring and challenging examples of art in churches useful to any parish or individual wishing to commission a new work.

 We’ve been working on updating the database, and we’ve built up a collection of almost 90 entries. We want to bring that number at least up to 100, as well as improving our descriptions, links and theological reflections on these works of art.

 Art + Christianity has received a generous grant from the Jerusalem Trust in order to undertake this work.