One of Write Centre’s most recent clients is Rev Richard Sharples, Minister of Wrexham Methodist Church. The Methodist Church nationally has one of the most prized collections of modern art in the UK and, as you would expect, most of it has a biblical theme.
Working jointly with Glyndwr University and his church in Regent Street, Richard has helped organise a joint exhibition of more than fifty of the paintings, including works by Patrick Heron, Graham Sutherland, Eric Gill and Ceri Richards. The project, titled Heaven and Earth, runs from 19th January to 26th March 2015 and features a series of talks, workshops, concerts and other events at both sites.
Richard asked for Write Centre’s help as he wanted to reach out to people in the local area and beyond and communicate what was happening with Heaven and Earth. He felt this was an exciting initiative for the arts scene in North Wales and wanted to get people, not just church-goers, involved in the project.
Working with Richard, we set up a blog and Twitter feed for Heaven and Earth, both of which will run until the end of March, and possibly beyond. The response so far has been tremendous:
“It’s a really great thing to open up church as a space for hospitality and conversation this way – where we can share what matters to us most and what moves us most, across the boundaries of belief and non-belief.” - Frances Eccleston
“This is beautiful.” - Matheus Yuhlung
The impact of the Heaven and Earth blog and Twitter feed has been to encourage more people to attend the project events and to provide a forum for people to discuss and reflect upon Heaven and Earth as a whole.
Richard Sharples is extremely pleased with how his work with Write Centre has turned out:
“Believing that the Arts is a common language for secular atheist, religious believer and everybody in between, I would like to use this blog to reflect upon what the Creative Spirit is doing amongst us.”
He is so pleased, in fact, that he now wants to set up a permanent website for his Methodist Church Circuit.
Working jointly with Glyndwr University and his church in Regent Street, Richard has helped organise a joint exhibition of more than fifty of the paintings, including works by Patrick Heron, Graham Sutherland, Eric Gill and Ceri Richards. The project, titled Heaven and Earth, runs from 19th January to 26th March 2015 and features a series of talks, workshops, concerts and other events at both sites.
Richard asked for Write Centre’s help as he wanted to reach out to people in the local area and beyond and communicate what was happening with Heaven and Earth. He felt this was an exciting initiative for the arts scene in North Wales and wanted to get people, not just church-goers, involved in the project.
Working with Richard, we set up a blog and Twitter feed for Heaven and Earth, both of which will run until the end of March, and possibly beyond. The response so far has been tremendous:
“It’s a really great thing to open up church as a space for hospitality and conversation this way – where we can share what matters to us most and what moves us most, across the boundaries of belief and non-belief.” - Frances Eccleston
“This is beautiful.” - Matheus Yuhlung
The impact of the Heaven and Earth blog and Twitter feed has been to encourage more people to attend the project events and to provide a forum for people to discuss and reflect upon Heaven and Earth as a whole.
Richard Sharples is extremely pleased with how his work with Write Centre has turned out:
“Believing that the Arts is a common language for secular atheist, religious believer and everybody in between, I would like to use this blog to reflect upon what the Creative Spirit is doing amongst us.”
He is so pleased, in fact, that he now wants to set up a permanent website for his Methodist Church Circuit.
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