Stay in the loop about upcoming events, exhibitions and news in the Morphē community.
See below for who you can get in touch with to find out about Morphē and its events and groups.
Alastair Gordon is co-founder of Morphē Arts, a painter and art tutor at Leith School of Art. He works from his studio in South London and exhibits with galleries and art fairs across the UK, Europe and the US. Artist Website
Sarah runs the Morphē London programme with Ally, as the Visual Arts Programme Curator, and has been working for Morphē Arts since 2012. Sarah has a multi-disciplinary arts practice across dance, sculpture, installation and writing. She is currently studying at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance on the MFA Creative Practice: Dance Professional. Artist Website
Sarah is the Morphē Arts Safeguarding Co-ordinator
Cully is co-founder of Morphē Arts. He is based in Dundee but also works with artists in Glasgow and Edinburgh. His multi-disciplinary art practice includes print and sculpture and encompasses the programming of two alternative gallery spaces - Nomas* Projects and Sharing Not Hoarding - with a focus on the role of the artist in society. Artist Website
Nate runs the Morphe Wales programme alongside Lois Adams. He also co-runs the arts centre Parc Arts in South Wales. Nate is a singer/songwriter and has been working with Morphe since 2020, when he began supporting us in developing our online communications and media. Sound Cloud and Band Website
Heather is the Morphē Administrator (Edinburgh based). She has an MA in “Intermediality: Literature, film and the Arts in Dialogue” from Edinburgh University and enjoys working across the arts whether making, tutoring writing, mentoring or facilitating. Her poetry has been anthologised in “New Writing Scotland 40” and 2 Proost Anthologies - she writes with camera, video, pen/paper, humour, audio and collage. Her instagram (@commaandco) has the tagline: “All the arts, all the time.”
Dr Sara Schumacher is Director of Education and Tutor and Lecturer in Theology & the Arts at St Mellitus College, London. Prior to her academic life, Sara trained and worked as a graphic designer in a variety of professional settings and continues to enjoy all things art-related.
Sara is the Morphē Arts Safeguarding Trustee
Ben Quash is Professor of Christianity and the Arts at Kings College London. Prior to that, he was a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College and then of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. He is director of the online Visual Commentary on Scripture. He is a Trustee of Art and Christianity Enquiry, and Canon Theologian of both Coventry and Bradford Cathedrals. His publications include Abiding: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2013 (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Found Theology: History, Imagination and the Holy Spirit (T&T Clark, 2014).
Nat is an actor, writer and mover, whose work focuses predominantly on intersectionality and identity through various prisms like nationalism, gender norms and religious tradition. As an actor and movement specialist, Nat has a unique perspective on the relationship between text and the body as narrative but knows practically zilch about the fine art world. She's okay with that, and enjoys engaging with it from a place of (potentially diminishing) ignorance. Although, the more she knows the more she realises she doesn't know...but she's okay with that too.
Alastair Gordon is co-founder of Morphē Arts, a painter and art tutor at Leith School of Art. He works from his studio in South London and exhibits with galleries and art fairs across the UK, Europe and the US. Artist Website
Cully is co-founder of Morphē Arts. He is based in Dundee but also works with artists in Glasgow and Edinburgh. His multi-disciplinary art practice includes print and sculpture and encompasses the programming of two alternative gallery spaces - Nomas* Projects and Sharing Not Hoarding - with a focus on the role of the artist in society. Artist Website
Chair of the Trustees - Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin is an independent scholar in art history and philosophy, based in the UK. Between 1999 and 2007 she taught philosophical aesthetics at the graduate school the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. She served as President of the Canadian Society for Aesthetics from 2005 until 2007 and subsequently as their Canadian delegate on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Aesthetics. Various temporary lectureships included a one-year appointment as Teaching Fellow in Religion, Philosophy and the Arts at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College in London in 2016-2017.
Kaori Homma is an artist originally from Japan, now based in SE London. Homma’s works are exhibited in the UK and internationally and included in both public and private collections. Homma is a co-founder of Art Action UK, a platform for artists' creative and critical responses to global crisis. She is one of the core team member of Brockley Open Studios, and is an Associate Lecturer at CSM and CCW at University of Arts London. Artist Website.
Alex Lucas is fascinated with the simple action of weaving. Having studied woven textiles, she’s continuing her practice but on an ancient back-strap loom. Being part of the loom means that she is very physically part of the weaving process, and that is what excites and drives her work. Website
Amy is a composer-lyricist, writer and pianist. She writes musicals and plays that aim to raise awareness of issues and empower people, and she specialises musically in the realms of musical theatre and jazz. Online Music
Angela Harvey is a London based actor and writer, with a love of stage combat. Angela has a one woman show 'Building Relationships' (By Susie Pottinger), and has written several monologues, and short plays. She is currently finishing writing her first full length play. Online Profile.
Beside Ourselves is Eleanor Young and Kate Mounce. They make funny, personal and female-led clown theatre which plays with themes of faith and embodiment. Company Website
Catherine Rowney is a London based Actor. She loves articulate language, whether dramatic or comedic, and meaningful story telling that influences and uplifts. On the side she is writing a screenplay and has expanded her lockdown offering with a home voice recording set up. Actor Profile
Catriona MacKenzie currently resides in the Cairngorms. Drawing from observation, memory and imagination, her work explores the interplay between word and image; seen and unseen realities; the epic and the everyday; the sublime and the personal; lamentation and praise. Artist Website
Charles Eades is a writer and film maker based in Scotland. He has written plays, novels and short stories and makes experimental films. His theatre work has been produced in London, Edinburgh and Liverpool and his plays for schools have been performed around the world. He is particularly interested in non-narrative work that responds to the world around us, highlighting nature and landscape rather than people, to find new ways of seeing, and to promote the moving image as a personal form of self expression, rather than pure entertainment or traditional storytelling. Artist Website
David Gilbert is a director and theatre maker from Zimbabwe who's worked with the top leading theatres in London over the past five years. David's core focus in any and all of his work now is collaboration. Online Work
Donna Matthews is currently in the third year of a practice-based PhD in Music/Theology at University of Glasgow. She plays electric guitar in the group ‘Down Is Up’, and is an improviser and video artist whose practice explores improvisation as a mode of speaking in tongues. Online Music
Freya Storch is a writer and actor who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her writing explores human relationships using parallel social landscapes and alternate realities: exploring what drives the human condition, particularly when tested by restrictions placed by society and governments. Actor Profile and Website
Karlee (MLitt in Theology and the Arts) is a freelance illustrator and designer based in Fife where she continues to explore the intersection of art and theology. Passionate about the relationship between words and images, and in telling visual stories that encourage experiences of longing, enchantment, and embodiment, inspired by women from literature and history, and by the decorative motifs of medieval illuminated manuscripts and the art nouveau period. You can learn more about Karlee's work on her instagram or website.
Kelly Frank is a British painter whose sensitive portraits capture the layered personalities of her sitters. Kelly explores portraiture through the lens of a psychologist and investigator, and her portraits of friends and family focus on their vulnerabilities. Artist Website
(b.1990, Poland) Magdalena Gluszak - Holeksa is a visual artist currently based in Hertfordshire, UK. Through the process of painting she explores the human speculation of memory and familiarity as experienced in the pursuit of human identity and the ‘unknown’. Her works reflect a non – linear approach to the suggested narratives and metaphors, through which she questions how human perception merges the lines between fiction and reality.
Michael Coppelov is a London based painter recently studying on the Turps Banana Painting Programme. His paintings are reminiscent of 80’s computer games: flat colours combined with harsh shadows and highlights, and are influenced in by Borges' story On Exactitude in Science concerning the map-territory relation. Artist Website
Nathalia Bell is a Canadian-German artist filmmaker with an Experimental Film MA from Kingston School of Art. Her background is multi-disciplinary across Theology, Literature, and History and she creates poetic film-collages, featuring ruminative landscapes that juxtapose mythology, history, and philosophy with contemporary states of ennui. Artist Website
Nikolai Azariah a Finnish-English video artist and director whose work explores poetry, identity, place and memory, navigating myth to make sense of the world. His film installations have been shown recently at the Deptford X Fringe, Husk Gallery, and the APT Gallery, London. Artist Website
Philip Elbourne is a visual artist whose paintings explore the boundaries between verbal and visual language, focusing on objects that exist on the periphery of recognition and which delineate the limits of shared cultural experience. Artist Website
Ranulph Steiger's paintings meditate on absent and withheld experiences. The paintings are made with a projected image, traced on gessoed plywood. Washes of thin egg tempera are then applied to the panel.
Having studied at London College of Music, Rupert now writes music mainly for television. His work has featured on BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and continues to be aired across the globe. Online Music
Ruth Smith works as a painter, and is currently starting a new gallery and residency programme in Devon. Ruth is interested in the relationship between humans and the material world: how we shape matter, write meaning into it, and are shaped by it. Artist Website
Sophie Steel is a Meisner trained actor with a passion for text based and ensemble work. Her many-stringed bow includes cabaret, puppetry and lindy hop. The Great Lockdown of 2020 has also rekindled her art career and love of creating handmade lino prints. Actor Profile
Uli Jaeger is a visual artist based in Kent/UK and Germany. Her work explores the liminal spaces where art and play meet within the context of the everyday. During the past two years her practice has evolved from sculpture to print making (primarily etching). Online Work
