Now It Is Permitted: 24 Wayside Pulpits

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Inspired by a collection of 24 New Church ‘wayside pulpits’ from the 1950s held in the archive at Swedenborg House, the exhibition features 58 newly commissioned visionary statements from invited artists, writers, musicians, playwrights and filmmakers. Designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio and printed by Coriander Studio, the posters will be on display at Swedenborg House, the Window Gallery in Conway Hall and neighbouring Bloomsbury Festival venues.

Participants include:

JEREMY AKERMAN, CHLOE ARIDJIS, HOMERO ARIDJIS, FIONA BANNER, ANNA BARHAM, RUT BLEES LUXEMBURG, KATHRIN BÖHM, LAURENCE CRANE, CULLINAN AND RICHARDS, CLARE CUMBERLIDGE, EILEEN DALY, JEREMY DELLER, ARNAUD DESJARDIN, SARAH DOBAI, TIM ELLIS, SIMON ENGLISH, MARGARITA GLUZBERG, DAVID GREIG, INTERNATIONAL LAWNS, MELANIE JACKSON, SARAH JONES, BEN KELLY, HILARY KOOB SASSEN, ANDREW KÖTTING, MICHAEL LANDY, JOHN LAWRENCE, YVE LOMAX, STEPHEN MCNEILLY, MELANIE MANCHOT, BRIGHID LOWE,  MICHAEL MARRIOTT, ANDREA MASON, JASON MASSOT, JEREMY MILLAR, FRASER MUGGERIDGE, ANDREW MUNKS, HAYLEY NEWMAN, SALLY O’REILLY, CORNELIA PARKER, JANETTE PARRIS, DBC PIERRE, JOANNA POCOCK, CLUNIE REID, OLIVIER RICHON, IAN RICKSON, GIORGIO SADOTTI, AURA SATZ, ROSALIE SCHWEIKER, ALI SMITH, BOB & ROBERTA SMITH, BRIDGET SMITH, BARNABY SNOW, POLLY STENHAM, MILLY THOMPSON, GAVIN TURK, JESSICA VOORSANGER, MARINA WARNER, IAN WHITTLESEA, KEN WORPOLE.  

Bridget Smith is an artist who works predominantly with photography and video. She is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London. Recent solo exhibitions include The Eye Needs A Horizon, Frith Street Gallery, 2016 and If You Want To Talk About Light You Have To Talk About Waves, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, 2015. She has been awarded the Beecroft Public Art Commission, part of the new Physics building for the University of Oxford designed by architects Hawkins/Brown.