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Faith in the Arts Faith in the Arts
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A podcast about art and faith with Marlita Hill, Alastair Gordon and Jonny Mellor. How can we attend again to the relationship between Christianity and the arts? Can we fix broken bridges, re-examine sources of contention, explore new ways to co-exist for the flourishing of all? Join us to find out.
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Art and Artificial Intelligence (with George Aytoun)
AI is reshaping our world and its impact is being felt very keenly in the arts.
Programs like Dali, Chat GPT and Sora have all been moving into the mainstream over the last year or so. Are they exciting tools to sharpen are artistry or do they signal the demise of the human artist? George Aytoun, head of design at Mccann Birmingham, joins the conversation to talk us through this revolution in the arts and the threats and opportunities that come with it.
If you’d like to join the conversation, please email us at hello@faithinthearts.show. If you’d like to help us continue to make more episodes like this, you can donate to us directly through our website www.faithinthearts.show
Referenced resources and artists:
Pablo Picasso, Norman Rockwell, JMW Turner
Travels in hyper-reality by Umberto Eco
'The Symbolic World' podcast (Jonathan Pageau)
Genesis 4:17-22 -
We Need to Talk by Marlita Hill
Last time we talked about Ally’s artistry and this time we’re shining the spotlight on another one of our hosts: Marlita!
We are focusing on her latest dance piece ‘We Need To Talk’ and bashing around such weight themes as communication, embodiment and art as language, at times using collections of letters that may or may not be actual words. Prepare for much phenomenological viscerality!
To get the most out of the episode (and also because it’s brilliant) you’d do well to watch the piece yourself beforehand. You can find it here: https://marlitahill.com/we-need-to-talk
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Quodlibet by Alastair Gordon
We’ve talked about some great artists this season but this one is special as it’s one of our own Faith In The Arts team. Today, we look at Ally’s own art, focusing on the first major monograph of his career, Quodlibet and the paintings All the Postcards sent to my studio (2014) and Above and Below, Bowglass.
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Referenced resources and artists:
Quodlibet by Alistair Gordon (monograph, 2023)
https://www.anomie-publishing.com/alastair-gordon-quodlibet/
All the Postcards to my Studio by Alastair Gordon (2014)
The Feet of Those by Alastair Gordon (solo exhibition, 2014)
Planes by Alastair Gordon (2014)
Thirty Feathers and one mouse by Alastair Gordon (2019)
Above and Below, Bowglass (2023)
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William Blake’s Illustrations on the book of Revelation
We loved focusing on the Book of Revelation in the last episode so we decided to keep talking about it while throwing one of the greatest British artists of all time into the mix: William Blake.
Join us on a whistlestop tour of William Blake’s illustrations on the book of Revelation, focusing on the paintings The Ancient of Days, The Whore of Babylon and The Four and Twenty Elders casting their Crowns before the Throne.
If you’d like to join the conversation, please email us at hello@faithinthearts.show. If you’d like to help us continue to make more episodes like this, you can donate to us directly through our website www.faithinthearts.show
Referenced resources and artists:
The Ancient of Days (1827) - William Blake
The Whore of Babylon (1809) - William Blake
The Four and Twenty Elders casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne (1803-05) - William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience - William Blake
Compare 2 Samuel 24:1 and 1 Chronicles 21:1
The four horsemen of the apocalypse- Revelation 6:1-8 (Zechariah 1:8-10) -
The book of Revelation by St John
Today, we’re looking at by far the most popular piece of art in the series so far. It features in a literary anthology that is by far the best selling book in history. It’s the book of Revelation by John! There will be beasts. There will be dragons. There will be absolutely no controversial opinions shared of any sort… (well, two out of three of those statements are true!)
If you’d like to join the conversation, please email us at hello@faithinthearts.show. If you’d like to help us continue to make more episodes like this, you can donate to us directly through our website www.faithinthearts.show
Referenced resources and artists:
On Fairy Tales- JRR Tolkien (essay) (available free online- google it!) -
Prophecy by Peter Howson
After a mid season break, the FITA team are back, discussing the work of painter Peter Howson.
Peter’s visceral, unflinching work sparks a discussion about artistic portrayals of good and evil, how becoming a Christian affects an artist’s work and the wildness inside.
If you’d like to join the conversation, please email us at hello@faithinthearts.show. If you’d like to help us continue to make more episodes like this, you can donate to us directly through our website www.faithinthearts.show
Referenced resources and artists:
Peter Howson paintings- Prophecy, Swarm, Barrier Sunset, The Heroic Dosser and the album cover of ‘Throwing Copper’ by Live Dante’s inferno
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