CONFERENCE 2026
Urban Crofters Church,
Crofts Street, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3DZ
Meet this year's Speakers
Adrienne Chaplin
Adrienne Chaplin is a philosopher of art with a long-standing fascination with how art makes and conveys meaning. Following her studies in Amsterdam she taught at, among others, the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto and King’s College London. Her publications include Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts (IVP, 2000) and The Philosophy of Susanne Langer: Embodied Meaning in Logic, Art and Feeling (Bloomsbury, 2020). She is the founding curator of the travelling exhibition Art, Conflict and Remembering: The murals of the Bogside Artist. She currently serves as chair of Morphe Trustees and, with mixed success, tries her hand at playing jazz violin.
Alastair Gordon
Alastair Gordon is a London-based artist and writer known for his hyperreal paintings of everyday objects and plein air landscape paintings. His works are included in various public, corporate, and private collections, such as the Simmons and Simmons Collection and the Beth de Woody Collection. He has recently held solo exhibitions at the Ahmanson Gallery in Los Angeles and the Cynthia Corbett Gallery in London. In 2014, he was awarded the inaugural Shoosmiths Painting Prize and has been shortlisted for several other awards since, including the Dentons Art Prize and the Jacksons Painting Prize. A monograph of his work, titled Quodlibet, was published by Anomie last year.
Alastair is also a public speaker, regularly discussing topics related to his Christian faith and professional work in the arts. He is the author of Why Art Matters (published by IVP) and shares thoughts on art, faith and creativity through his weekly Substack, Creative Creatures. Additionally, he serves as a tutor at the Leith School of Art in Edinburgh and was previously an artist-in-residence at the City and Guilds of London Art School.
As one of the co-founders of Morphē Arts, a charity that promotes faith in the arts, Alastair shares responsibility for an annual residency project in East London. He draws every day and works from his studio in South London, where he is currently creating new paintings for upcoming exhibitions in London and Los Angeles.
Find us in Cardiff!
Urban Crofters Church, Crofts Street, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3DZ
Urban Crofters is a Church family of Kingdom-believing creatives, seeking to Connect, Create and Transform our local community in Roath, Cardiff.
They are an Anglican church whose aim is to fulfil this vision through building a growing network of communities that seek to serve one another and their local neighbourhoods.