Exhibiting Faith
A podcast about the intersection of art and faith, from art in sacred spaces to artists and curators engaged with themes of faith. In each episode, critic and art historian David Trigg welcomes a different guest for whom faith has played a significant role in their life and work.
Podcasting since 2022 • 7 episodes
Exhibiting Faith
Latest Episodes
S2 E01 • Mahtab Hussain: What Did You Want To See?
David Trigg speaks to Mahtab Hussain, an artist who uses photography, film and sculpture to investigate the Muslim experience through themes of identity, displacement, and belonging. Mahtab was raised in Birmingham, where he fel...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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S1 E05 • Laura Moffatt: Ecclesiart
David Trigg speaks to Laura Moffatt, director of Art + Christianity, an organisation seeking to foster and explore the dialogue between art, Christianity and other religious traditions. Since the 1990s, Art + Christianity has forge...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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39:23
S1 E04 • Matthew Krishanu: Painting About Religion
David Trigg speaks to the London-based painter Matthew Krishanu, whose figurative paintings explore themes of childhood, religion and the legacies of colonialism. Matthew was raised in Bangladesh in the 1980s, a formative period whi...
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Episode 4
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59:48
S1 E03 • Alastair Gordon: Art and the Christian Imagination
David Trigg speaks to artist, writer and mentor Alastair Gordon about the Christian imagination and how art and faith intersect in his work.Alastair’s meticulous paintings draw on the tradition of Quodlibet, a little known 17th-century g...
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Episode 3
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56:14
S1 E02 • Farwa Moledina: Women of Paradise
David Trigg speaks to Birmingham-based textile artist Farwa Moledina about her exhibition Women of Paradise at Ikon Gallery.Raised in Dubai in a Muslim family, Farwa moved to the UK in 2010, where she studied at Birmingham School of Art...
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Episode 2
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