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Sacred art needs to say something to this generation other than, “here are cherubs on clouds,” dreamy harpists, lifelike furry fruits, and people looking pious, virgin women in flowing robes with halos, God as an old man with a beard sitting in the sky. When people think about sacred art, they go straight to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, where it all began, Catholic art. No, Gen Z don’t want to see the unachievable ideal. Catholic saints are just as unhelpful as AI mod

This week I was surprised to see new, clear images of the Moon’s surface, explosions of rainbow colour, so similar to the way I have been painting it for over a year. It is funny how instinct and intuition can somehow hold truth before science confirms it. That is how I felt when I saw these images. As though I had always known the Moon was a quiet, wonderful beauty, something far beyond a spectrum of grey. VIEW The minerals in the Moon’s surface give it its colour. Blue tone

The world is always going to have a crisis, that is the point. In every part of history there has been a dilemma, a rupture, a moment of instability and yet the artist continues to create beauty. When the world is burning down, we keep on making. Even when resources are limited and pressures are at their worst, you still see art flowing from individuals and communities as activism, resistance, lamentation, prayer or even discovery. You see it in the Renaissance, in Florence,

I thought I would go a bit deeper into this idea of beauty, really drawing from the tradition of philosophy and theology. As mentioned, I’m an art history and curatorship student, and I’m just a lover of all things beautiful, I’m an artist and an author myself, so I’m dedicated to gifting beauty onto the world through art. This branch of philosophy, aesthetics, is explored by Dietrich von Hildebrand, who breaks this idea into two types of beauty, primitive beauty and the subl