New season of exhibitions at St Martin-in-the-Fields
12/12/2011 8:58 AM EST
St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar Square, is renowned throughout the world for its music, architecture, hospitality and a forward-thinking approach to supporting people in need. From London’s first free lending library, to pioneering work with homeless people and the first religious radio broadcast, St Martin’s continues to break new ground in defining what it means to be a church. As part of St Martin’s recent renovations the church is now able to host art exhibitions in the Gallery and in the Foyer. St Martin’s offers a platform for artists and organisations to display their works, to deliver a message of hope and re-examine our views of the modern world.
Exhibitions at St Martin-in-the-Fields in January–March 2012
Monday 23 – Sunday 29 January
TackleAfrica
UK charity TackleAfrica will be showcasing some of their best project photos from 10 years of using football to pass on life saving messages about HIV and AIDS to young people across Africa. The photos, all taken by TackleAfrica volunteers and staff, capture something of the popularity of the beautiful game, the lengths that young people will go to in order to organise a kick around in the most challenging of circumstances and therefore the potential of this medium to make a lasting positive impact on the lives of young people.
www.tackleafrica.orgMonday 30 January – Friday 5 February
Utopia
Utopia! presents two diverse new bodies of work by Hyewon Han and Garam Kim. This exhibition explores their continued and shared interest in the relationship between body and space.
www.wix.com/exhibitionutopia/2012Monday 6 – Friday 19 February 2012
How Lucky We Are
Award-winning photographer Ian Spratt presents a series of triptychs spanning a 25 year period. The powerful black and white images illustrate the unfolding lives of children abandoned on the streets of Dhaka and subsequently raised by the Sreepur Village, Bangladesh (UK charity no. 1085008).
Monday 20 February – Sunday 4 March 2012.
the art of 7
The artists in this exhibition interpret the theme of ‘line’ with ingenuity and variety to produce a wide range of work linked by stroke, crease, furrow and mark. New works by Jane Bailey, Lesley Bennett, Lizzie Brewer, Amelia Critchlow, Jill Iliffe, Julia Iwasz and Stephanie Wilkinson.
Monday 5 March – Sunday 11 March
Students from the Prince’s Drawing School
A series of paintings and drawings from this prestigious art school.
wwwprincesdrawingschool.orgMonday 19 March – Sunday 1 April
Simulacro
Simulacro is an exhibition of works made by sixteen multidisciplinary artists who, starting in Granada, will show as a group in different venues in an ongoing, flexible and open project.
For further information or photographs email
or telephone 020 7766 1115.
www.smitf.org