Making Space, Gifting Grace

A morning event followed by lunch, as part of the Morphe Arts London Programme.

Artists Sarah White and Alastair Gordon - who run the Morphe London Programme - will explore creativity, grace, and what it means to become more fully human through relationship, movement, theology, and artistic practice.

Through a combination of talk and performative lecture, this event considers creativity not as striving or self-performance, but as a response to something already given. Drawing on ideas of embodiment, imitation, the Trinity, and the Christian understanding of imago Dei, both presentations explore how making begins in attention, receptivity, and relationship.

Sarah White’s performative lecture explores movement, self-emptying, and the porous boundaries between self and other, asking how we are shaped through imitation, adaptation, and encounter.

Alastair Gordon’s talk, Grace in the Making, reflects on creativity as something rooted not in achievement, but in grace: we create because we have first been created and loved.

Together, these two presentations invite us into a richer understanding of art, faith, and human connection.

The event concludes with a shared lunch that will be provided.

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Cover image: I Remember (You) Changing by Sarah White, at Future Ritual, ALMANAC, November 2025. Photo by Zack Mennell

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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