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The Real and the Romantic: English Art between Two World Wars course

Frances Spalding will discuss art at a time of gradual recovery from war; a need for entertainment; a gradual increase of interest in modernity and the a growing awareness of the darkening international horizon.

The works during this period reminds us that art is not cut off from life but is inseparable from it, and that it resonates with the culture and society from which it has emerged.

About the Speaker
Frances Spalding CBE is an art historian, critic and biographer. She has a specialist interest in 20th century British art. She has written about the work and lives of artist such as Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, John Minton, Duncan Grant, Gwen Raverat and John and Myfanwy Piper, as well as a biography of the poet Stevie Smith. She is Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and in 2005 was made a CBE for Services to Literature.

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Dates & Times

18 Oct 2023

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From 5pm for drinks; talk from 6-7pm

Course code

2802

Other Notes

£10 tickets include a drink prior to the talk and a £2 donation to Sarum College.

A limited number of £8 tickets which include a drink but not a donation are available until 15 October.

Please note that tickets will only be for sale on the door if there are are places available.

Email us on courses@sarum.ac.uk if you have any booking queries or problems.

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Visual Artist Claire Reed

The complex and sometimes fractious relationship between contemporary art and religion has intrigued me throughout my art career, informing my direction as an artist. It has led me to work in sacred spaces with their immediate and wider communities, to study an MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture at Sarum College, and recently to become artist–researcher at Leo Baeck College of Jewish scholarship and learning.

My aim is to examine the extent to which this creative approach might generate fruitful inter-religious theological insights within a Jewish and Christian ministry training context.

Sarum College combines an open-minded embrace of the imagination and the arts with a supportive, questioning and diverse community. Crucially for me, the Sarum-Winchester PhD programme is one of the very few UK university programmes to offer a hybrid thesis in art and theology in which the creative process and resulting art output along with a written critical component are presented for examination.

This PhD research is a key part of my development as an artist engaged with theology and inter-religious dialogue.

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Five years ago, I told my Warden of Readers that I would not be renewing my licence when it expired in 2019, as I thought my faith was becoming too unorthodox for a Church of England licensed lay minister. As someone who knew me well, she challenged me to actively explore what I did still believe. Thus started the journey that ended last August with the dissertation completing my MA in Theology Imagination and Culture (MATIC) at Sarum College.

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— Canon Christopher Dench, Diocese of Rochester Director of Formation and Ministry

The Real and the Romantic: English Art between Two World Wars

The Real and the Romantic: English Art between Two World Wars course