Selectors (Site-specific installations)

Laura Moffatt is Director of Art and Christianity and Editor of its quarterly journal. She leads on A+C’s regular programme of high-profile events, exhibitions and publications for diverse audiences. Laura is also co-editor of ‘Contemporary Art in British Churches’ (ACE, 2009) and the forthcoming title ‘Visual Communion’ (Brepols, 2025), and writes on art and architecture for a variety of publications. She is a member of the Church Buildings Council for the Church of England and of the London DAC.

Alice Kettle is an internationally renowned artist and leader in the field of textile arts. Her unique practice results in figurative stitched works from the small to the monumental. She makes full use of the textures and effects made possible through her harnessing of a mechanical process; created both through planning and intuition where stories collide with autobiographical and contemporary events, folklore and mythology.

Her work is included in many private and public collections including the Crafts Council, UK; the Whitworth Manchester, UK; Firebird Collection, UK; Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins, France; and the Belger Collection, USA. She has held major exhibitions internationally, co-authored and edited various publications and was co-curator of the recent Threads: Breathing Stories into Materials exhibition at the Arnolfini in Bristol, which showcased textile works by 21 contemporary artists and celebrated the storytelling power of cloth.

Kettle is Emeritus Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, where she influenced generations of makers and thinkers, and was appointed as a Royal West of England Academician in 2025 in recognition of her contributions to art and craft. Alice Kettle is represented by Bo Lee Gallery, based in Bruton, Somerset.

Photo credit: Dave Watts

Selectors (Gallery)

Abdollah Nafisi (b. 1982, Tehran, Iran) is a British-Iranian artist based in West Sussex, UK. His sculptural practice investigates how form, structure and negative space organise spatial relationships between bodies, materials and environments. Working primarily with fallen trees and reclaimed industrial steel, Nafisi constructs materially interdependent forms that hold space open through tension and balance. He studied at the Royal College of Art. His work has been exhibited at Chisenhale Gallery and Annely Juda Fine Art, and was presented at Frieze Sculpture 2025. His sculpture Neighbours is held in the collection of the Sigg Art Foundation.

A graduate of Central St Martin’s school of Art, Anne Magill has gained international recognition for her dramatic, pared-back paintings and charcoal drawings. Her work, often resembling found photographs, depicts anonymous figures in intimate scenes, suggesting a story or memory just out of reach—or a personal significance now lost. She has won her international acclaim with work hanging in major private and corporate collections worldwide. Anne is represented by John Martin Gallery, London.

Neequaye Dreph Dsane (b. 1973, Nottingham, England) works across painting, drawing, printmaking, and large-scale street murals. His practice explores the relationship between drawing and painting, informed by observation, memory, and collage.

Community sits at the heart of his enquiry, with works capturing moments in time in which subjects inhabit both real and imagined spaces. Dsane is particularly drawn to the nuances of human connection; recent work reflects on intimacy, friendship, isolation, and the complexities of familial relationships.

Dsane is a former secondary school art teacher and lecturer in Illustration.