Welcome to Everything is Connected!
As part of Bradford’s City of Culture 2025 celebrations, five venues in the Methodist Church’s Yorkshire West District are exhibiting artworks held in the Methodist Modern Art Collection (MMAC), enabling conversations around faith, hidden or overlooked histories, and diverse and marginalised heritage. There is also a series of reproductions of works in the Collection that can be seen at bars and cafés along North Parade in Bradford City Centre.
While each venue has its own theme, they are all linked via the Everything is Connected Art Trail. The venues have worked with their respective local communities, organisations and schools to creatively respond to the artworks – you can see some of their work displayed alongside artworks from the Collection.
The artworks including Stevens’ on display at St James’ Church, Thornton, illustrate the all-powerful creative nature of God, and some of the women who feature in stories from the Bible. The paintings communicate a God who has both the power to do anything and the ability to create and shape reality.
Thornton has a strong association with its most famous residents, the Brontë family – the Brontë sisters would become some of world's most famous writers. We wanted to present more formidable women, this time from the Bible. The miracle of The Raising of Lazarus is witnessed by a great crowd held back by policemen and clergymen, among them stand Mary and Martha who are painted prominently.
Please pick up an Art Trail leaflet to find out more about what’s on at each venue.
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