Hassan Vawda
@hassanvawda.bsky.social
Research and Policy on Religion and Belief in the Arts and Heritage Sectors - AHRC Doctoral Researcher with Tate and Goldsmiths
Revisiting Bryan Wilson’s Religion in a Secular Society (1966) as I near the end of my PhD. Not because it gets religion “right” today — but because it explains why so many institutions still assume belief is retreating, private, or best avoided - hassanevawda.medium.com/learnings-fo...
Learnings for today from ‘Religion in a Secular Society’ (1966)
As I come close to completing my PhD looking at religion and belief in modern and contemporary art museums in Britain (click here for more…
hassanevawda.medium.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Revisiting Bryan Wilson’s Religion in a Secular Society (1966) as I near the end of my PhD. Not because it gets religion “right” today — but because it explains why so many institutions still assume belief is retreating, private, or best avoided - hassanevawda.medium.com/learnings-fo...
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These artworks explore the shortest days and longest nights 🌙 #WinterSolstice
The collections featured moved on to the Museum Data Service in 2025, read more and view 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/shortest-days-and-longest-nights
🧑🎨 Norman Garstin (1847–1926) 📷 Cornwall Museum
The collections featured moved on to the Museum Data Service in 2025, read more and view 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/shortest-days-and-longest-nights
🧑🎨 Norman Garstin (1847–1926) 📷 Cornwall Museum
December 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
These artworks explore the shortest days and longest nights 🌙 #WinterSolstice
The collections featured moved on to the Museum Data Service in 2025, read more and view 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/shortest-days-and-longest-nights
🧑🎨 Norman Garstin (1847–1926) 📷 Cornwall Museum
The collections featured moved on to the Museum Data Service in 2025, read more and view 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/shortest-days-and-longest-nights
🧑🎨 Norman Garstin (1847–1926) 📷 Cornwall Museum
My essay In Search of God through Artists is out now for Kettle’s Yard, @universitypress.cambridge.org
explored the spiritual motivations & social conditions behind Jim & Helen Ede’s founding vision: modern art as a pathway to divinity - kettles-yard-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2025...
explored the spiritual motivations & social conditions behind Jim & Helen Ede’s founding vision: modern art as a pathway to divinity - kettles-yard-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2025...
August 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My essay In Search of God through Artists is out now for Kettle’s Yard, @universitypress.cambridge.org
explored the spiritual motivations & social conditions behind Jim & Helen Ede’s founding vision: modern art as a pathway to divinity - kettles-yard-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2025...
explored the spiritual motivations & social conditions behind Jim & Helen Ede’s founding vision: modern art as a pathway to divinity - kettles-yard-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2025...
BBC 4 Sunday on Easter Sunday - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Moving narration by a member of a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza - in the hopelessness in suffering that they witness around them under siege, and the hope in faith they find - buoyed by the daily prayers with the now late Pope Francis
Moving narration by a member of a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza - in the hopelessness in suffering that they witness around them under siege, and the hope in faith they find - buoyed by the daily prayers with the now late Pope Francis
Sunday - Easter in Ukraine and Gaza; 30 years of Father Ted - BBC Sounds
A look at the ethical and religious issues of the week
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April 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
BBC 4 Sunday on Easter Sunday - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Moving narration by a member of a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza - in the hopelessness in suffering that they witness around them under siege, and the hope in faith they find - buoyed by the daily prayers with the now late Pope Francis
Moving narration by a member of a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza - in the hopelessness in suffering that they witness around them under siege, and the hope in faith they find - buoyed by the daily prayers with the now late Pope Francis
Flourishing Fritillaria imperials aka ‘William Rex’ propagated from @nationaltrust.org.uk Nymans
April 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Flourishing Fritillaria imperials aka ‘William Rex’ propagated from @nationaltrust.org.uk Nymans
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What does 100 years of South Asian artists in Britain look like?
Find out in this new story by @hassanvawda.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/NvRvrYc
'Painting' by Prafulla Mohanti © the artist. 📷 University of Chichester, Otter Gallery
Find out in this new story by @hassanvawda.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/NvRvrYc
'Painting' by Prafulla Mohanti © the artist. 📷 University of Chichester, Otter Gallery
What does 100 years of South Asian artists in Britain look like? | Art UK
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.
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March 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
What does 100 years of South Asian artists in Britain look like?
Find out in this new story by @hassanvawda.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/NvRvrYc
'Painting' by Prafulla Mohanti © the artist. 📷 University of Chichester, Otter Gallery
Find out in this new story by @hassanvawda.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/NvRvrYc
'Painting' by Prafulla Mohanti © the artist. 📷 University of Chichester, Otter Gallery
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Across five decades, Saleem Arif Quadri has been making work that draws on the natural world and which explores the idea of spiritual journeys.
Read more in this interview by @hassanvawda.bsky.social 👉 https://buff.ly/4bf6owu
© the artist. 📷 @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social
Read more in this interview by @hassanvawda.bsky.social 👉 https://buff.ly/4bf6owu
© the artist. 📷 @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social
Faith, heritage and negative space: an interview with Saleem Arif Quadri | Art UK
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.
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February 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Across five decades, Saleem Arif Quadri has been making work that draws on the natural world and which explores the idea of spiritual journeys.
Read more in this interview by @hassanvawda.bsky.social 👉 https://buff.ly/4bf6owu
© the artist. 📷 @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social
Read more in this interview by @hassanvawda.bsky.social 👉 https://buff.ly/4bf6owu
© the artist. 📷 @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social
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Three in five small UK museums and galleries fear closure amid declining revenue, new research suggests via @theartnewspaper.bsky.social www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/21/t...
Three in five small UK museums and galleries fear closure amid declining revenue, new research suggests
The survey of independent cultural attractions found that three quarters of respondents were concerned for the future of the wider sector
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February 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Three in five small UK museums and galleries fear closure amid declining revenue, new research suggests via @theartnewspaper.bsky.social www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/21/t...
Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker at Whitechapel Gallery. On til 4 May 2025
February 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker at Whitechapel Gallery. On til 4 May 2025
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RIP to Dr. Marika Sherwood: a huge inspiration among historians and activists, and a founder of the Black and Asian Studies Association. Without her tireless contributions over the past few decades, the field of Black British History would look very different today. We owe her so much 🖤✊🏽
February 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
RIP to Dr. Marika Sherwood: a huge inspiration among historians and activists, and a founder of the Black and Asian Studies Association. Without her tireless contributions over the past few decades, the field of Black British History would look very different today. We owe her so much 🖤✊🏽
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#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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January 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
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Pink glow over Chingford fields in early 20th century. A warm sunset to banish Blue Monday! 🌞
January 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Pink glow over Chingford fields in early 20th century. A warm sunset to banish Blue Monday! 🌞
Sun flushed Kettle’s Yard house, Cambridge
January 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Sun flushed Kettle’s Yard house, Cambridge
medium.com/@hassanevawd... - a reflection on the narratives of Muslims in Britain through the 1914 publication, 'Islam and the Muslim Prayer', one of the earliest efforts to explain and guide the act of Islamic prayer to a native British audience. #IslaminBritain #BritishMuslims
January 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
medium.com/@hassanevawd... - a reflection on the narratives of Muslims in Britain through the 1914 publication, 'Islam and the Muslim Prayer', one of the earliest efforts to explain and guide the act of Islamic prayer to a native British audience. #IslaminBritain #BritishMuslims
From ‘The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence’ at the V&A
January 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From ‘The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence’ at the V&A
Fine balance and awareness are needed with these creative health narratives to avoid essential arts funding being redirected to supplement the stretched health and care services. It should be health and care budgets being invested into the creative sector...#CreativeHealth
Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds
Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’
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January 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Fine balance and awareness are needed with these creative health narratives to avoid essential arts funding being redirected to supplement the stretched health and care services. It should be health and care budgets being invested into the creative sector...#CreativeHealth
Adding to my to read list - “Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Collections:The (Un)Making of Indonesian Islam in the Netherlands”
Series:
Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, Volume: 22
- brill.com/display/titl...
Series:
Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, Volume: 22
- brill.com/display/titl...
Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Collections
"Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Collections" published on 23 Dec 2024 by Brill.
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January 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Adding to my to read list - “Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Collections:The (Un)Making of Indonesian Islam in the Netherlands”
Series:
Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, Volume: 22
- brill.com/display/titl...
Series:
Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, Volume: 22
- brill.com/display/titl...
Saw Paul Shrader’s 1985 ‘Mishima: a life in four chapters’ @princecharlescinema.com - great film - and so glad to see cinephile hubs like Prince Charles Cinema packed on a Sunday night screening for a film like this
January 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Saw Paul Shrader’s 1985 ‘Mishima: a life in four chapters’ @princecharlescinema.com - great film - and so glad to see cinephile hubs like Prince Charles Cinema packed on a Sunday night screening for a film like this
I value @nationaltrust.bsky.social deeply - a happy 130th birthday- here are my favourite National Trust sites so far:
Powis Castle and Garden
Great Coxwell Barn
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
575 Wandsworth Road
Powis Castle and Garden
Great Coxwell Barn
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
575 Wandsworth Road
January 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I value @nationaltrust.bsky.social deeply - a happy 130th birthday- here are my favourite National Trust sites so far:
Powis Castle and Garden
Great Coxwell Barn
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
575 Wandsworth Road
Powis Castle and Garden
Great Coxwell Barn
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
575 Wandsworth Road
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Happy birthday to us! 130 today and still going strong 💪
A big thank you to everyone who is celebrating with us ♥️
A big thank you to everyone who is celebrating with us ♥️
January 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy birthday to us! 130 today and still going strong 💪
A big thank you to everyone who is celebrating with us ♥️
A big thank you to everyone who is celebrating with us ♥️
Art+Christianity Journal Issue 120 out now - includes my review of the exhibition ‘William Morris and Art from the Islamic World’ currently on at William Morris Gallery + more - artandchristianity.org/shop-listing...
A&C Journal issue 120 — Art + Christianity
Features Letter from Stockholm Daniel A Siedell Memories and lives Alice Kinghorn Exhibition reviews Delcy Morelos: Profundis by Michael Kurtz Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa by Rachel Coombes...
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January 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Art+Christianity Journal Issue 120 out now - includes my review of the exhibition ‘William Morris and Art from the Islamic World’ currently on at William Morris Gallery + more - artandchristianity.org/shop-listing...
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🥁 Our most popular story of the year is...
'Bruegel or Brueghel? The painting dynasty explained' by Adam Wattam
Have a read 👉 https://buff.ly/3BCO7fo
📷 @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social
'Bruegel or Brueghel? The painting dynasty explained' by Adam Wattam
Have a read 👉 https://buff.ly/3BCO7fo
📷 @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social
December 31, 2024 at 8:30 AM
🥁 Our most popular story of the year is...
'Bruegel or Brueghel? The painting dynasty explained' by Adam Wattam
Have a read 👉 https://buff.ly/3BCO7fo
📷 @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social
'Bruegel or Brueghel? The painting dynasty explained' by Adam Wattam
Have a read 👉 https://buff.ly/3BCO7fo
📷 @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social
'Aberdeen Performing Arts and Dundee Contemporary Arts both post losses while director of National Galleries of Scotland says organisation is facing possible permanent closure of one of its buildings' - www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/major-s... @artsprofessional.co.uk
Major Scottish arts venues report large deficits - Arts Professional
Two major Scottish arts venues have reported large deficits for the last financial year amid uncertainty over their future level of funding from Creative Scotland. Dundee Contemporary Arts ran at a lo...
www.artsprofessional.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
'Aberdeen Performing Arts and Dundee Contemporary Arts both post losses while director of National Galleries of Scotland says organisation is facing possible permanent closure of one of its buildings' - www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/major-s... @artsprofessional.co.uk
An op-ed on my motivations and emerging insights from my AHRC supported PhD with Tate and @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social that looks at religion and belief within modern art museums in Britain - www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour... @museumsassociation.org
We need open dialogue about belief and religion - Museums Association
Heritage sector is lagging behind others, says Hassan Vawda
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January 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
An op-ed on my motivations and emerging insights from my AHRC supported PhD with Tate and @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social that looks at religion and belief within modern art museums in Britain - www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour... @museumsassociation.org