Art Trail
The Ascension Peter Rogers: Used with permission from the Methodist Modern Art Collection – retrieved from 12th May 2021 MMAC - Peter RogersMethodist Modern Art Collection RELAUNCHED as part of the Coventry City of Culture
Stories of Change: Hope, Faith and Love
Carefully selected works, providing unique moments of healing and contemplation.
The nationally-renowned Methodist Modern Art Collection of more than 50 works will go on show in churches across Coventry this autumn as an Art Trail, entitled Stories of Change: Hope, Faith and Love, as part of the city’s celebration as UK City of Culture. The art trail itself will display 35 works, 11 of which will be at Coventry Central Hall.
The Collection includes works by artists such as Graham Sutherland, Elisabeth Frink, Edward Burra, William Roberts, Patrick Heron, F N Souza and Jyoti Sahi.
The Art Trail marks the relaunch of the Collection after a two-year conservation and re-framing project to conserve the works and ensure they will be able to be displayed for many years to come.
The Art Trail will start at Coventry Cathedral and Coventry Methodist Central Hall in the city centre. Then visitors will be encouraged to follow the trail beyond the city into churches in Earlsdon, Balsall Common and Fillongley, which are part of the Coventry and Nuneaton Methodist Circuit.
The Methodist Modern Art Collection Art Trail ‘Stories of Change: Hope, Faith and Love’ will be available to view on selected days from Saturday 4 September to Sunday 3 October 2021.
Full programme to be posted here soon.
While the Church of England’s post-war response to church re-building and artistic commissioning is well known and epitomised by Coventry Cathedral, the Methodist Church’s engagement with developments in twentieth-century British religious art is less well known. The story of the Methodist Modern Art Collection will be celebrated appropriately in Coventry this autumn. And, it is hoped that the carefully selected works will provide a unique moment of healing and contemplation, speaking to people in differing ways, as the nation recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Any questions please email publishing@methodistchurch.org.uk
Stories of Change: Hope, Faith and Love
Carefully selected works, providing unique moments of healing and contemplation.
“Loving others as God loves us” – Coventry and Nuneaton Methodist Circuit mission statement