Resources

The resources that follow are for free and open use to all who have interest.  Our aim in providing them is to share insights, principles and practices that inform the commissioning processes and the making of liturgical art in diverse media for diverse contexts.

Our ‘theological vision’ document underpins all of the Workshop’s making, training and teaching. It describes where we are coming from as practitioners and where we would like to go.

Read it here.

If you have any particular interest that you would like to see developed here, please do be in touch. And we ask your patience in the building up of materials on this page in these early days of the Chichester Workshop’s life.

Intoxication and Illumination:
Art oriented toward the infinite beauty of God

A talk by Jim Blackstone hosted by The Liturgical Institute at Ealing Abbey, London in July 2024. Jim explored transcendent beauty in liturgical art with particular attention to the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius and  Vatican II’s Sacrosanctum Concilium. The talk was followed by responses from Martin Earle and Aidan Hart.

Watch it here.

The Spiritual Senses and the Liturgical Arts:
The Spiritual Senses in Tradition

The first in a series of lectures given at Chichester Cathedral in 2022, with supportive funding from the Bishop Otter Trust.

Download the text or watch here.

The Spiritual Senses and the Liturgical Arts:
The Spiritual Senses and Making

The second in a series of lectures given at Chichester Cathedral in 2022, with supportive funding from the Bishop Otter Trust.

Download the text or watch here.

The Spiritual Senses and the Liturgical Arts:
The Spiritual Senses as Transformation

The third in a series of lectures given at Chichester Cathedral in 2022, with supportive funding from the Bishop Otter Trust.

Download the text or watch here.

Porous Portals: Art in the Cathedral

Part of a conference organised by a group of Scottish Episcopalians in collaboration with the Liturgy Committee, titled “Responding to the Sacred: Inclusive Liturgies/Porous Walls – New Conversations”. Discussion among the Rev’d Canon Professor Graham Ward, the Rev’d Canon Dr Dan Inman and Dr Jim Blackstone, chaired by the Rev’d Canon Professor David Jasper.

Watch here.

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