We are grateful to Dr Ayla Lepine for her development of this project, and to the Rev Dr Maggi Dawn for her valuable contribution to the research.
Ayla Lepine would like to thank the editors of the Tate In Focus project, and Celia White in particular for her support and editorial prowess throughout. The conveners of Tate Research’s 2015 conference on modern British murals and this event’s participants also stimulated much productive thought towards the project. Hospitality and scholarly dialogue at the British School at Rome were kindly provided by the BSR’s library and archive staff, and by Stefania Gerevini. Christopher Irvine and the library and archive staff of Canterbury Cathedral have been hugely helpful and excellent conversation partners on Knights and religious art in contemporary Britain. The Benedictine sisters at Malling Abbey gave precious and peaceful time to write and contributed to the exploration of biblical themes. Friends and colleagues at Westcott House in Cambridge are a daily reminder of how theology and the arts may intertwine productively. The art history departments at the University of Nottingham and the University of Essex offered stimulating forums for the discussion of modern British art, religion and feminism and a home for interdisciplinary research. For discussions regarding Knights, gender and modern art, British decorative painting, and relationships between art and theology, Ayla is grateful to Lucy Bradnock, David Peters Corbett, Ben Quash, Kate Aspinall, Domenico Venditti, Emma Chambers, Frances Spalding, Paul Liss, Rosanna Eckersley, David Gazeley, Sarah Turner, Alan Powers, Matt Lodder, Craig Hamilton, Chris Rogers and Geoff White. Profound thanks are offered here especially to Sacha Llewellyn for her inspiring commitment to Knights scholarship, and her championing of Knights for new audiences in her related publications and exhibitions. Finally, thanks go to Maggi Dawn and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, whose deep knowledge of the ongoing potential for engagement across theology, liturgy, art and culture give profound hope to us all.
This In Focus was sponsored by Christie’s, who have generously provided funding for collection research at Tate. For further information and to read other publications from the programme, visit the project page.
Authors
Dr Ayla Lepine, Visiting Fellow in Art History, University of Essex
Rev Dr Maggi Dawn, Associate Dean for Marquand Chapel and Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Theology and Literature, Yale Divinity School
Series editor: Jennifer Mundy, Head of Collection Research, Tate
Project editor: Celia White, Collection Research Editor, Tate
Digital editor: Susannah Worth, Digital Editor (Research), Tate
ISBN 978-1-84976-537-4