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Art and Christianity seeks to foster and explore the dialogue between art, Christianity and other religious faiths.
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A weekend of specially arranged tours, talks, and art including a performance of songs by Hildegard of Bingen, a lecture by Blanche Girouard, the exhibition ‘Living by the Rule’ and John Maddison’s expertise guidance around medieval churches in the city (as well as the cathedral).
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The Chagall windows at Tudeley were commissioned by Sir Henry and Lady d'Avigdor-Goldsmid in memory of Sarah d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, their daughter who died in 1963 at the tragically early age of 21, in a sailing accident off Rye. Sarah d'Avigdor-Goldsmid and her mother had visited the 1961 Louvre exhibition of Chagall's work.
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The Singh Twins, artists and judges on the 2026 A+C Awards
A recent members’ visit to the National Gallery
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Saturday 18 September - 5pm - Weston Room, Norwich Cathedral
Lecture by Blanche Girouard
The Artists’ Gift: how centuries of artists have used the life of Christ in art
Friday 18 September - Sunday 20 September 2026
A weekend of specially arranged tours, talks, and art including a performance of songs by Hildegard of Bingen, a lecture by Blanche Girouard, the exhibition ‘Living by the Rule’ and John Maddison’s expertise guidance around medieval churches in the city (as well as the cathedral).
Feature
The A+C Awards: judges’ citations
Bryan Biggs and Chine McDonald
Exhibition reviews
Shahana Rajani: Lines that World a River
Dala Nasser: Cemetery of Martyrs
by Christopher J Thornhill
Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime
by Spencer Hornsby
Tracey Emin: A Second Life
by Martin Kinnear
David Somerville: Stations of the Cross
by Fitzroy Schofield
Sarah Lightman: Biblical Women Ageing Disgracefully
by Sarah Parkhouse
Book reviews
Henri Matisse: Stations of the Cross
by Charles Miller
Art-Making as Spiritual Practive: Rituals of Embodied Understanding
eds Lexi Eikelboom and David Newheiser
by Sarah White
Reflection
Artist-in-residence, Julian of Norwich Shrine by Debra Shipley
Obituary
Richard Harries 1936 – 2026
by Rowan Williams
Friday 18 September, 6.45pm, St George’s Colegate, St George’s St, Norwich NR3 1DA
Vida Vojić invokes the spirit of Saint Hildegard, by singing her medieval chants accompanied by the glass harp, subtle electronics, spatial feedback and light design, in delicate response to the liturgical season. Hildegard of Bingen was a prophetic Benedictine abbess and polymath during the 12th century Roman Germany, active as a music composer, preacher, writer, theologian, artist, playwright, herbal scientist, cosmologist and mystic.
Image by Olga Androsova
The Journal
Since 1994 our quarterly journal has published features, exhibition and book reviews, news and comment from the field of art and religion.
Feature
The A+C Awards: judges’ citations
Bryan Biggs and Chine McDonald
Exhibition reviews
Shahana Rajani: Lines that World a River
Dala Nasser: Cemetery of Martyrs
by Christopher J Thornhill
Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime
by Spencer Hornsby
Tracey Emin: A Second Life
by Martin Kinnear
David Somerville: Stations of the Cross
by Fitzroy Schofield
Sarah Lightman: Biblical Women Ageing Disgracefully
by Sarah Parkhouse
Book reviews
Henri Matisse: Stations of the Cross
by Charles Miller
Art-Making as Spiritual Practive: Rituals of Embodied Understanding
eds Lexi Eikelboom and David Newheiser
by Sarah White
Reflection
Artist-in-residence, Julian of Norwich Shrine by Debra Shipley
Obituary
Richard Harries 1936 – 2026
by Rowan Williams
Feature
The Elusive Spirituality of Craigie Aitchisonby Richard Dormandy
Interview
With Don Gianmatteo Caputo by Oddbjørn Sørmoen
Exhibition reviews
Claire Tabouret: In a Single Breath
by Inge Linder-Gaillard
Suzanne Treister: Prophetic Dreaming
by Hannah Hempstead
Ming Wong: Dance of the Sun on Water
by Fitzroy Schofield
Design review
The Empty Chair Design Award
by Waithera Sebatindira
Film review
Quest for Beauty: The Life and Art of William Schickel, dir. David Whitaker
by Joseph Masheck
Book review
Converts by Melanie McDough
by Tessa Murdoch
Event report
The 2025 A+C Annual Retreat Weekend
by Roland Jeffery
The A+C Awards 2025/6: entrant lists
Feature
‘And they were terrified’: A Sonic Dada Nativity (1916/2025)
Deborah Lewer
Exhibition reviews
Fra Angelico
by Paul Hills
Emily Kam Kngwarray
by Jane Petkovic
Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory
by Sarah Adegbite
Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures
by Charles Pickstone
‘Hear Us’
Jon Marlow
Book reviews
The T&T Clark Handbook of Theology and the Arts eds. Stephen M Garrett and Imogen Adkins
Wes Vander Lugt
Gospel as Work of Art by David Brown
Sara Schumacher
Features
Drawing the Unspeakable
by Elizabeth Cook
Conservation work in Anglican Churches
by Tracy Manning
Exhibition reviews
Siena: the rise of painting 1300-1350
by Paul Hills
Gothic Modern
by Oddbjørn Sørmoen
Book reviews
The Bible in Photography
by Sheona Beaumont
Siobhán Jolley
Makers by Nature
by Bruce Herman
Isaiah Morris
Unmaking Mary
by Chine McDonald
Maryanne Saunders
Commissioning
Processional cross and acolyte candlesticks for the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool
by Rauni Higson
Features
Renewing Notre-Dame de Paris
Mark Osborne
The Belarusian Memorial Church
Joe Watson
Exhibition reviews
Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds
by Holly Slingsby
Lara Smithson: A Ribbon Unfurling
by Rob Hawkins
Louise Giovanelli: A Song of Ascents
by Richard Davey
In Attendance
by Camilla Cañellas
Book reviews
William Butterfield and his times, Nicholas Olsberg
by Kenneth Powell
Letter to an Artist, John Dennison
by Nigel Halliday
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, 1529–2021, vols 4&5
eds James E Kelly and John McCafferty
by Roderick O’Donnell
Attunement: The Art and Politics of Feminist Theology, Natalie Carnes
by Ayla Lepine
Event report
Jubilee of Artists, Rome
by Josephine Warren
Features
Letter from Stockholm
Daniel A Siedell
Memories and lives
Alice Kinghorn
Exhibition reviews
Delcy Morelos: Profundis
by Michael Kurtz
Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa
by Rachel Coombes
Krien Clevis: Dutch Churches in Transition
by Lieke Wijnia
William Morris and Art from the Islamic World
by Hassan Vawda
Book reviews
Theology, Modernity and the Visual Arts eds Ben Quash and Chloë Reddaway
by Deborah Lewer 16
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, 1529–2021, vols 1–3
eds James E Kelly and John McCafferty
by Roderick O’Donnell
Film review
Mother Vera, dir. Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson
by Christopher Irvine
Features
Vessel: an art trail in remote rural churches
an essay by Jacquiline Creswell
Interview
Richard Kenton Webb
by Jonathan Evens
Exhibition reviews
Anish Kapoor
by Emma Roberts
Michael Petry, In League with Devils
by Maryanne Saunders
Mysterious Ways: Art, faith and transcendence
by Orla Byrne
Event review
Ritual/Bodies
by Charles Pickstone
Book reviews
The Spiritual Adventure of Henri Matisse by Charles Miller
Inge Linder-Gaillard
Art in Churches
Re-siting works of art by Laura Moffatt
Features
Andrea Buttner
interviewed by Joost Joustra
Exhibition reviews
Matthew Krishanu at Camden Art Centre
by Paul Hills
Caspar David Friedrich at the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
by Jonathan Koestle-Cate
Sean Henry at Ely Cathedral
by Rob Hawkins
Book reviews
The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto
by Sofia Singler
Sacred Modernity by Jamie MacGregor Smith
Rey Conquer
Shaping the Assembly
Ed. Thomas O’Loughlin
Peter Doll
Imagination in the Age of Crisis
eds Jason Goroncy and Rod Pattinson
Sarah Adegbite
Spotlight on art
Victoria Tischler sheds light on the remarkable paintings of Mary Barnes
Features
The Chichester Workshop
by Daniel Inman
In the Light of Faith
by Susannah Rose Morgan
Interview
Sokari Douglas Camp
by Novelette Stewart
Event report
Fluid Body by Jonathan Koestlé-Cate
Exhibition reviews
Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within at Dorchester Museum and Art Gallery
by Rey Conquer
Soulscapes at Dulwich Picture Gallery
by Waithera Sebatindira
Book reviews
The Nun’s Cell as Mirror, Memoir, and Metaphor in Convent Life
by Donna L. Sadler
Claire Gilbert
John Ruskin the Pre-Raphaelites, and Religious Imagination eds Sheona Beaumont and Madeleine Emerald Thiele
Elisabeth Jay
Faith in Art by Joseph Masheck
Andrew Bick
Feature
C M Howells celebrates Egon Altdorf
Commission
Cugoano250: Che Lovelace at St James’s Piccadilly
by Waithera Sebantindira
Exhibition reviews
Black Atlantic
by Sarah Adegbite
Meredith Monk and The Faith Museum
by Laura Moffatt
Living Memory
by Rui Cepeda
Peter Howson and Grayson Perry
by David Brown
Book reviews
Religion and Contemporary Art eds Ronald R Bernier and Rachel Hostetter Smith
Ayla Lepine
Fashion Theology by Robert Covolo
Katherine Ellis
Mary Magdalene: A Visual History by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Nina Danino
The Artist as Divine Symbol by Adam Edward Carnehl
David Jasper
Feature
Witness and presence: the paintings of Zurburán at Auckland Castle
by Paul W Gooch
A room set apart: creating sacred space for a prison chaplaincy
by Sophie Hacker
Exhibition reviews
Hill-Rhythms: David Jones + Capel-y-ffin
by Hilary Davies
Liverpool Biennial: uMoya
by Ed Williams
EVEWRIGHT: Libation
by Moriah Ogunbiyi
Reflection
Julian Stair: Art, Death and the Afterlife
by Roz Barr
Book reviews
Photography and Belief by David Levi Strauss
Joseph Masheck
Event report
In Search of the Miraculous
by Laura Moffatt
Letter from Rochester
Naomi Billingsley
Feature
Paula Rego: art, Catholicism, and the female gaze
by Tina Beattie
Exhibition reviews
Garry Fabian Miller
by Sheona Beaumont
Tartan
by Deborah Lewer
With Passion
by Rey Conquer
St Francis of Assisi
by Charles Pickstone
Reflection
Poor Things
by Philip Blackledge
Book reviews
Sacred Images and Normativity
ed Chiara Franceschini
by Fran Hughes
Painted Temples: Wallpaintings and Rood Screens in Welsh Churches, 1200-1800, Richard Suggett with Anthony J Parkinson and Jane Rutherfoord
by Lucy Wrapson
Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence, Joanne Allen
by Peter Doll
Spotlight on art
Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ NFT
by Yoli Terziyska
Artist profile
Jesse Darling
by Richard Parry
Kiosk is an architectural sculpture constructed from reclaimed wooden church pews that draws on the visual language of Islamic architecture.