Events
A+C Awards 2025/6
Our Awards celebrate the successes and diversity of artistic projects in religious buildings throughout Britain. We also have an award for a book which explores the dialogue between the visual arts and religion.
Ecclesiart in Cathedrals: Coventry
Revered as a exemplar of 20th-century commissioning, Coventry Cathedral holds exquisite and astonishing artworks from the huge tapestry by Graham Sutherland to the Eucharistic silverware.
Performance - 'I Remember (You) Changing'
'I Remember (You) Changing' is a live performance with dance, speech and song developed and performed by Sarah White with acoustic singing by Donna Matthews, Jack Noutch and Kate Ryan. Moving between improvisation and choreography, the piece is a prayerful exhortation directed to multiple people at once and an attempt to communicate at the edges of language. The work draws from numerous sources, including a strange story of a talking donkey in the Bible. In this story, the she-donkey is more spiritually awake than the human prophet, and takes on human language in act of entangled empathy.
Sculpting the Spiritual: an online conversation with Stephen Owen and Andrew Nunn
In 2019 Stephen Owen won the A+C Award in the permanent category for his Communion Table and Lectern in the prayer chapel of Guildford Baptist Church (also known at Millmead). He has also recently made the liturgical furniture for the main auditorium at the church. In this conversation with A+C trustee, Andrew Nunn (former Dean of Southwark), we’ll explore the power of materials, iconography and physicality in making church furniture.
It’s Better Together: an online conversation with Jake Lever and Ayla Lepine
We mark the launch of a new round of A+C Awards with an online discussion between Jake and Ayla. In 2019 Jake won an Award in the Temporary Installation category for Soul Boats at Birmingham Cathedral, UK. He has often worked with the archetype of the boat and his practice explores sacred ritual in public and private contexts. As an artist and art educator, Jake is inspired by the Artist Teacher Corita Kent. This conversation will touch on themes of co-creation, connection and celebration, central to her vision.
Ecclesiart in Cathedrals: Westminster
Join us for a tour of Westminster Cathedral, which is filled with 20th-century artwork featuring Tom Phillips, Giacomo Manzu, and Leonard McComb.
‘Contemporary Art and Religious Architecture’: a lecture by Fr Marc Chauveau
Since 2009, Fr Marc Chauveau has curated many contemporary art exhibitions at the Priory of La Tourette near Lyon – built by Le Corbusier – offering a rare opportunity to explore the relationship between contemporary creativity and religious architecture.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park tour
This will be a tour in which we explore our relation to art and nature through the senses, particularly sight and touch, and think theologically about human and natural creativity, all to be discovered in beautiful landscaped parkland. .
Closing performance - sixty beats per minute
Closing performance Sunday 29th June: Phil Coy invites local music producer and UK dub legend Adrian Sherwood and friends to hijack sixty beats per minute. They will perform a new composition and live dub remix that breaks down the mechanics of the clocks regimented beat.
Tower Tour
Free Tower Tour at 3pm on 3rd May at St George’s Ramsgate as part of the launch event of ‘sixty beats per minute’
2025 A+C annual lecture
Given by the Director of the Wellcome Collection, Melanie Keen, the A+C Annual Lecture will explore the Ancient Art of Mothering: from iconography to lived experience.
Conversations – an event to explore racial justice and faith through contemporary art
A discussion event focussing on the exhibition ‘Conversations’, which brings together work by 40 leading Black women and non-binary artists.
Lecture - ‘Living Stones: Buildings, Bodies and Spirit’
This lecture will explore the ways in which art, architecture and theology are intertwined - it will explore the ways in which stones speak of God in the communities where they are placed, and how flesh and spirit encounter the divine in and around religious spaces.
A performance by the artist Holly Slingsby drawing on the iconography of remarkable 15th-century Tree of Jesse within St Mary’s.