Alternative Perspective, An Exhibition of Collage Art: 3 - 29 September 2024

Alternative Perspective invites you to view everyday experiences through different lenses. By cutting out and rearranging elements, the collage medium allows us to recontextualise familiar spaces, offering new interpretations of time and place.

The exhibition featured two distinct parts:

Part One: Works by Eva Marie
Eva Marie is an analog collage artist based in London. She is interested in how collage can transform the everyday experience into something otherworldly. Her work challenges conventional perspectives by reconstructing landscapes, architecture, and familiar spaces to create surreal realms and alternative dimensions. Eva facilitates collage workshops for community organisations, promoting the accessible, meditative, and sustainable nature of collaging.

Part Two: Community Creations
This exhibition showcases collages crafted by members of the public and Year 12 students from St Marylebone CE School. These were created during a series of workshops held at St Marylebone Parish Church as an extension of the Spring Lecture Series. In these workshops, participants engaged in hands-on collage-making inspired by the rich history and architecture of St Marylebone.

ART NOW 6th June - 8th July 2024

A group exhibition by Sarah Gidden, Maria Ipliktsiadou and Meggie Nikolic

Sophie Hacker : THE INFINITY SERIES 7th March - 22nd April 2024

Sophie Hacker’s work embraces many disciplines, including stained glass, textile, bronze, painting and found objects. Her driving passion is ’the beauty of Holiness’ and how the creative process can convey something of divine mystery.

This current exhibition offers a chance to appreciate some of her recent artwork, inspired by and created in response to the new Reredos painting. This work, "A Sea of Glass like unto Crystal" by Sophie Hacker, was installed as a commission for St Marylebone Parish Church, to complete the 'lunette' of John Compton's impressive apse composition.

A Visiting Scholar at Sarum College in Salisbury, an Artist Liveryman at the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and an Advisor to Art+Christianity, Sophie is currently working on a reliquary dedicated to an Anglo-Saxon saint in Kent and a large orrery for an estate in France.

Anthony Atkinson ARCA 31st January - 1st February 2024

The beautiful art of Anthony Atkinson (1929-2014) depicting architectural and landscape subjects in Provence

“High Above” A collection of black and white photographs by Conceiçao Praun 17 November 2023 - 13 December 2023

The origin of the term “cloud” can be found in the Old English words clud or clod, meaning a hill or a mass of stone. Around the beginning of the 13th century, the word came to be used as a metaphor for rain clouds, because of the similarity in appearance between a mass of rock and cumulus heap cloud. Over time, the metaphoric usage of the word supplanted the Old English weolcan, which had been the literal term for clouds in general.

In metereology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space.

On Earth, clouds are formed as a result of saturation of the air when it is cooled to its dew point, or when it gains sufficient moisture (usually in the form of water vapor) from an adjacent source to raise the to raise the dew to the ambient temperature.

I am a passionate traveller and have had the chance to visit and explore about 50 countries since I left my home country of Brazil in 1995.
During my travels I became an amateur photographer, taking short photographic courses and workshops from time to time. Once in Paris, I met George Fèvre (1930-2007), a master in darkroom black-and-white photography who greatly influenced me, and since then the shades of black-and-white became my personal preference in my snapshots.
As a traveller and amateur photographer I facilitate my own events, which include various exhibitions, documentaries, plays and talks presented as a form of exchange with others around the world.
On my second trip to India in 2009, I photographed some environmental issues across the country.

'Numinous' A solo exhibition of new paintings by Marguerite Horner

There will be a book about this exhibition published by Hurtwood Books and distributed through Thames and Hudson with an essay by Dr Matthew James Holman - Courtauld Postdoctoral Fellow and author of ‘Curating Modern Life: Frank O’Hara and Cold War Art’ and an introduction by Matt Price - writer,curator and editor of Anomie publishing .Matt Price writer, curator and editor of Anomie Publishing

Marguerite Horner solo exhibition ‘Numinous’ will be exhibiting a series of paintings through which she will explore the idea of the ’Numinous’ and were inspired by a journey along the California coast. ‘Numinous’ is the name of something very specific, and yet difficult to define.‘The feeling of it may at times come sweeping like a gentle tide pervading the mind’, wrote the Lutheran theologian Rudolf Otto, who sought to define this ineffable experience through the metaphor of water: ‘It may become the hushed, trembling, and speechless humility of the creature in the presence of––whom or what? In the presence of that which is a Mystery inexpressible.’

Marguerite Horner graduated with an MA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art school in 2004.  She has since exhibited widely in Art Fairs and Group Shows.
In 2011 she exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale with WW gallery in Afternoon tea and in 2019 at the 58th Venice Biennale with Caroline Wiseman Gallery in Alive in the Universe. In 2017 Horner won the NOA17 MS Amlin Prize, and in 2018 the British Women Artists Award. Examples of her work have been acquired by several museums, most recently the Yale centre for British Art in `New Haven, Connecticut, and has exhibited across England and in the USA and China.

Marguerites paintings ' lift the ordinary into the extraordinary, and the specific into the universal...they are about the seen and the unseen, the life behind the eye as well as the world in front of it"     Lady Marina Vaizey CBE.
Lady Marina Vaizey CBE was formerly the Art Critic for the  FT and Sunday Times and a Turner Prize Judge.

SHAPE, LINE, FORM & COLOUR: A solo exhibition of the artworks of Ash Gonzales

18 August to 4 September 2023
Opening Reception Friday 18th August 2023 1.30 – 4.30pm

Line, Shape, Form and Colour is a collection of my illustrative pieces of artwork, dating back from 2016 to the present. Through my own style and practice I create pieces of work with themes from nature, where I produce surface pattern designs both figurative and abstract. I am drawn to small animals. I enjoy reinventing them by bringing their shapes to life, using intricate pattern designs in monochrome or vibrant colours. The works which are related to botanical themes are inspired by my own garden, observed through the seasons.

Occasionally, when I am creating nature artworks, I get the perspectives wrong or there is an incorrect overlay of the subject matter. This most certainly is due to the Brain Damage I suffered as an infant, it is part of who I am, these mistakes or imperfections are incorporated into the Artwork to make it unique.

The abstract works come from a place where I am at my most contented; I often listen to popular music or listen to a football podcast when I create these works. I don’t have to think about specific mark makings to create a realistic form. The abstract work is created purely on sensations and my brain activity on that day.
I hope you enjoy viewing my artworks. Ash

CHALLENGING PERCEPTIONS OF HOMELESSNESS: Voice Through the Lens
21st June - 11th July
A photography project by the ladies of the Marylebone Project, a charity providing 24/7, 265 safety and support to women experiencing homelessness. Facilitated by mental health & arts charity Mental Fight Club and photographer Marysa Dowling.

"B&W and Bright"

A joint exhibition of works by Katya Gerasimova Bosky and Natasha Arendt.

Farah Maktari

Farah Maktari is an artist studying BA Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts, based in London, UK. Through exploring the fluidity of cultural identity and the relationship between humans and nonhumans, her work seeks to create a montage of the self. Being a multidisciplinary artist, she primarily works with tapestry, painting, sculpture, and illustration.

'Reflections: Paintings and Poems' by Alice Gavin Atashkar

'Reflections: Paintings and Poems' by Alice Gavin Atashkar was exhibited between October 28th 2022 and November 23rd 2022. This was a collection of creative Christian responses post-Pandemic, featuring spoken word, poetry recitals, and an immersive light installation.