Recreation Exhibition 1st-18th April

Owen Daily, Artist's Proof: Gravity.

Here at the Holy Biscuit, we've been so busy getting things ready for the Recreation conference, that it might seem that we have forgotten to promote our three week exhibition of the same name. Curated by Morphé Arts, the show will feature some fabulous work by London-based artists, Liza Cucco, Alastair Gordon, and Lucinda Metcalfe, and Scotland-based artists Owen Daily and Cully. 

The Recreation Exhibition preview will be on Saturday 31st March, at 6.30pm. There will be wine and cheese, and live music from Cath and Phil Tyler!

Come back and see the exhibition, April 1-18, open daily from 11am-4pm.

Check out more work by exhibiting artists...

Conference Programme Fri 30th March - Sat 31st March 2012

The second annual Holy Biscuit Conference, in association with Morphé Arts, will explore art as recreation. Early definitions of the word 'recreation' often include the word refresh. Who or what is being refreshed as we recreate? And to what end?

Friday 30th March
19.30 - Welcome, coffee and cake

20.15 - Fr. Dominic White - Sacred Dance: Can Spirituality be Fun?
21.15 - Making Faces - Award Giving Comedy

Saturday 31st March
09.30 - Welcome, coffee and cake
10.00 - Andrew Jones, The Unravelling of Creation: Sin and the Artistic Task
11.00 - Workshops
Fiona Veitch Smith - Writing as Worship and Witness
David Lisser - A Playful Experiment in Making and Re-making
12.30 - Farmhouse Lunch by Teasy Does It

14.00 - Alastair Gordon - Strange Place: How Does Contemporary Art Function in the Kingdom of God?
15.30 - Andrew Jones - The Reweaving of Creation: Christ and the Artistic Task

18.30
Recreation Exhibition Preview, Free and open to the public

Work by, Liza Cucco, Alastair Gordon, Cully, Lucinda Metcalfe, Owen Daily
with Wine, Cheese, and Music by Cath & Phil Tyler 

Read BBC's Review of Cath and Phil Tyler's album, Dumb Supper.

The cost of the conference is £15 (£12 concessions) which includes a beautiful soup sit down lunch on Saturday. To book for the conference please email holybiscuitblog@gmail.com (or tel. 07525644703) by Friday 23rd March!

New Music + A Love Supreme

John Coltrane at the Guggenheim, William Claxton, 1960

It's been an amazing week in music. Beach House confirmed their new album Bloom, a summer tour, and yesterday, they released their lead single "Myth." Sufjan and Rosie are collaborating on a Split 7", half of which, titled "Where Were You?", was released. Sufjan/Son Lux/Serengeti have released a track called "Museum Day." Poor Moon currently has their Illusions EP free on their website.

Yet in the midst of all of the new, I was called back a classic: the John Coltrane classic, A Love Supreme.  NPR's All Things Considered features the story of A Love Supreme as a part of NPR 100.

I'm now jazz aficionado, and for a long time, the only thing I knew about Coltrane was that he was a legend. I don't mean to undermine the music; but learning of this suite's deep personal significance for Coltrane, as a reaffirmation of faith, and a declaration of the marriage of music and faith, has given new ears to listen, to not only his mastery of his instruments and of his genre, but also the story of his journey.

Listen to The Story of 'A Love Supreme'