The Revd Dr Ayla Lepine

Bio:

Ayla Lepine is the Associate Rector at St James’s Piccadilly in London.

From 2021-22 she was Ahmanson Fellow in Religion and Art at the National Gallery in London.

Her work includes teaching the King’s College London and National Gallery collaborative MA in Christianity and the Arts, and building diverse new networks within arts organisations and faith communities. Her MA and PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art focused on the modern British responses to the Middle Ages, especially the Gothic Revival and Pre-Raphaelite movement.

She has held post-doctoral fellowships at the Courtauld and at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music, and was Lecturer and Fellow at the University of Essex School of Philosophy and Art History. She trained for the priesthood at Westcott House in Cambridge, and was ordained in 2018.

Dr Lepine lectures and publishes widely, and her current research is exploring Evelyn Underhill and art historical interactions with St Paul’s description of the Fruits of the Spirit. Her publications include the co-edited books Revival: Memories, Identities, Utopias (Courtauld 2015), Architecture and Modern Religious Communities 1850-1970: Building the Kingdom (2018), as well as articles in British Art Studies, the Journal of Theology and Sexuality, Tate’s In Focus series, and the Sculpture Journal on topics including Anglican altarpieces, London church architecture, and the painter Winifred Knights.

Find her on Instagram @ayla.lepine