Open To All Tour
Open To All is my touring exhibition in partnership with Open Table Network (OTN) showing in Cathedrals and town centre Churches over 2023 and 2024. We start in September 2023 in Newcastle, move to Sunderland Minster in November, Sacred Trinity Salford in December, honour LGBTQ+ History Month at Coventry Cathedral February 2024, wind our way into the Southwest and finish up in July 2024. The calendar and map will be populated as each venue is finally agreed.
OTN exists to encourage welcoming church spaces for members and allies of people who identify as LGBTQ+. We decided to work together because we share a commitment to inclusivity in the name of God. We a have chosen city centre locations because they attract tourists who visit Cathedrals and notable buildings. Such visitor attractions are an ideal place to show via my artwork that inclusivity is possible, imaginable even, and shows up in images depicting God topics. If visitors can literally see people in God gatherings with no barriers, it may be possible to imagine Christianity with the Gospel of wide ranging love – Open To All. This was written about the exhibtion’s stop in Salford.
Our relationship is that the exhibits are of my work, and 40% of sales from the exhibition (originals and ordered prints of any work sold because people learned of it from the exhibition - excluding the cost of framing) will be given to the OTN. Some prints and cards may be sold by the Cathedrals or Churches.
Sunderland Minster: 2nd November to 29th November 2023
Sacred Trinity Salford: 1st December to 24th December 2023
Liverpool Parish Church: 3rd to 29th January 2024
Coventry Cathedral: 1st to 28th February 2024
St Asaph’s Cathedral (Wales): 3rd to 31st March 2024
City United Reformed Church Cardiff: 7th April to 4th May 2024
Newport Cathedral: 19th May 2024 to 19th June 2024
American International Church London: 23rd June to 21st July 2024
Winchester United Church: 22nd July to 11th August
Christ Church Chelmsford: 12th to 24th August