Making, Seeing, Hearing

To coincide with the final exhibition of our Artist Residency 2025 we will be hosting a day event with talks and workshops for practicing artists.

Our keynote speakers will be Donna Matthews, Isaiah Morris and Sunil Chandy, with workshops led by Michael Coppelov, Phil Elbourne and Kait Dron.

This will be a day of workshops and talks hosted by Morphe Arts, exploring how we learn, perceive and sense through making, hearing, speaking and moving: with attention to how faith is experienced through these activities.

NB - This will be our main Morphe event of the Autumn term, in a change to our usual Friday night events).

(Title Image: Entropic Painting by Phil Elbourne, oil on panel)

Schedule

10am: Doors Open

10.30-12.30: Talks and Panel Discussion with Donna Matthews, Isaiah Morris and Sunil Chandy.

Sunil Chandy - Words made flesh: the shared corporeality of audible spoken voices and its theological implications.

Isaiah Morris - Pentecosting an Art-Practice: on the Spirit and Art-Making’s Liturgical End

12.30-2pm: Lunch (Bring Your Own)

2-3.30pm: Workshops

Phil Elbourne - Repackaging Printmaking

3.30-4pm: Break

4-5.30pm: Workshops

Kait Dron - Moved By Gospel

5.30-6.30pm: Viewing of the Residency Exhibition

6.30pm: After hours (trip to the pub!)

Morphē Arts is a network of artists across the UK, with projects in London, Wales and Scotland. Morphē supports early to mid-career arts professionals with a focus on encouraging critical engagement between Christian faith and contemporary art. As a charity we run gallery spaces, an artist residency programme, conferences, artists groups and monthly lectures. We have a wealth of resources for artists including online talks and printed publications. www.morphearts.org

Isaiah Morris is a new media artist and writer. With a Master’s in Christianity and the Arts from King’s College, London (Distinction). He researches Australian Pentecostalism, the Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, and projection and light-based art’s theological dimensions. Isaiah has exhibited artworks across Australia, Asia, and the UK, in galleries, shopping malls, music festivals, and churches.

Kait Dron is a butoh performance artist whose practice integrates theology, landscape and dance. Viewing the body as poetic utterance and site of revelation, she explores movement as embodied epistemology, teaching immersive movement workshops for all abilities that draw on imagination, meditative states, and attentive dialogue with the living, sacred world.

Phil Elbourne is an artist and educator based in East London. In his practice, attention is offered to overlooked items, materials and experiences. In return, these peripheral objects open up a space to reflect on perception, materiality, and the shifting nature of meaning.

Repackaging Printmaking - Discover simple, approachable printmaking using the unexpected combination of recycled packaging and a pasta machine. We’ll playfully experiment with materials and techniques, and you’ll leave with your own postcard-size prints, plus the expertise to set up a small-scale intaglio practice at little to no cost.