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Commentary

Berlin Biennale 2018: not applause, but an alternative

7th November 2018 By Dominic White

In this blog, friend of Holy Biscuit Dominic White offers his view on this year’s Berlin Biennale. Dominic goes on to explore how he belives Christian artists could respond to making art, sharing it and building community in this often angry and broken world. He offers an interesting perspective on Christians in the arts which […]

PROCESS

Four Bars Rest

19th October 2018 By Huw Evans

Rest. A big cup of tea and couple of dunky biscuits. A thirty second pause on the way up the hill. A rock-climber taking a few moments to straighten out cramped fingers. A glorious month between the football ending and the football starting again. A day of not working after six days of working. A […]

PROCESS

PROCESS at HB: October 2018 – February 2019

12th October 2018 By Shieldfield Art Works (SAW)

Hello from the HB team! Rest. That elusive concept that never quite fulfils or refreshes. But what does it mean to truly rest? Jesus said ” Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” In his reflection on the (often misunderstood and easily manipulated) commandment to ‘Remember […]

Commentary

How Do I Look? Bodies and the Theotic Gaze

5th September 2017 By Dominic White

How do I look? We’re very concerned about how we look to others. Not least because we don’t know whether how they look – at us – will be kind. Every culture, every age, of course, has had its “standards” of beauty, many or all of which have caused suffering, especially to women. We might […]

Conference

Conjunctions: joining art, faith and community

25th May 2017 By Sarah Davies

At the end of April we held our “Conjunctions” study day, a collaboration between the Holy Biscuit, Sputnik (the arts initiative within Catalyst network) and St Dominic’s Priory (Catholic church in the Ouseburn). Three weeks on, it’s time to reflect on the day and share those reflections. Around 40 people, all involved in some kind of […]

Commentary

Present : Past – Commentary by Dominic White

5th May 2017 By Dominic White

Can we believe what we see? What we read? Is everything ultimately a “truthie”, just one among many alternative facts? What immediately speaks truth to me in Dave Tweedy’s work is its distinctiveness. This is not a rip-off, a take-off, an ironic commentary on X or Y, or propaganda. It is original, not derivative. And […]

Reflection

Exploring New Painting Territory with Dave Tweedy

27th April 2017 By Sarah Davies

For three Friday mornings in March HB2, our workshop, social and project space at the Holy Biscuit was a hive of activity and filled with enthusiastic artists clad in aprons or boiler suits. Seven people (including myself) who have been involved in the Painting for Fun group that takes place here on Tuesdays had signed […]

Commentary

Revelation in Disguise*

26th April 2017 By Matthew Hearn

In Present : Past Dave Tweedy has developed an increasingly pictorial language within his paintings. Drawing — literally painting — from personal and common memory, Tweedy interweaves and overlays historical and contemporary signifiers to create new-found (dis-)orderings of reality. At these intersections of people and paint, abstract and figurative languages conflate; familiar imagery is altered, […]