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Sacred Ecosystems Images of Devotion, Performances and the Environment (4th–20th century) Eikon/Imago Journal (for Vol 16, 2026) deadline: 30.06.2025 https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/EIKO/announcement/view/605

Mystical Entanglements: Communities, Networks, and the (relational) Self in the History and Study of Mysticism Mystical Theology Network, deadline: 31.01.2025

https://mysticaltheologynetwork.org/upcoming/

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Louise Nelstrop and Helen Appleton, Art and Mysticism: Interfaces in the Medieval and Modern Periods (Routledge, 2018).

Simon Critchley, On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy (Profile Books, 2024).

Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (Knopf, 2005)

Niklaus Largier, Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses (Stanford University Press, 2022)

Neil MacGregor and Jonathan Ruffer, Inaugural McDonald Agape Lecture: Art and Christianity on Public Display (2024) video available here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/inaugural-mcdonald-agape-lecture-in-theology-and-the-visual-arts

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Javier y Marta Villavecchia Fellowships 2026, Centre for Studies in Aesthetics, Religion, and Contemporary Culture, Haas Library, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Deadline: 02.05.2025

https://www.upf.edu/web/cercca/fellowship

Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts Residencies, South Carolina USA.

https://fsa.art/residencies/

Artist in Residence, Center for Benedictine Life at the Monastery of St. Gertrude, Idaho USA. https://stgertrudes.org/the-arts/

Grants for the Study and Practice of Christian Mysticism, Elizabeth Ann Memorial Fund, deadline: 01.03.2025 https://quakerfahe.com/2024/06/06/grants-for-the-study-and-practice-of-christian-mysticism/

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Medieval Women @ The British Library, London. Ends 02.03.2025.

https://www.bl.uk/whats-on/medieval-women/

Hilma af Klint @ Guggenheim Bilbao. Ends 02.02.2025

https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitions/hilma-af-klint

Enchanted Alchemies: Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult in Art, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, London. Now closed, but the accompanying essay might be of interest: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/8uzch5mp/database/a0ea9ba20898da3732d7fe4da96c4fea62fa97e0.pdf

Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis, Paris. https://www.macsmto.fr Current exhibition: Le ciel intérieur, ends 06.04.2025.

The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism, and the Cosmic Tree @ Camden Art Centre, London. https://www.botanicalmind.online

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Research Centres, Groups & Organisations

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Research Centres, Groups & Organisations

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Centre for Studies in Aesthetics, Religion, and Contemporary Culture, Haas Library/UPF https://www.upf.edu/web/cercca/

Art & Christianity https://artandchristianity.org

Mystical Theology Network https://mysticaltheologynetwork.org

Mysticism and Lived Experience Network https://mysticismlivedexperience.wordpress.com

Theology and the Visual Arts, King's College London https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/theology-and-the-visual-arts

Morphe Arts

https://www.morphearts.org

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Anne Carson (poet/writer)

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (visual artist)

Hilma af Klint (visual artist/mystic)

Georgiana Houghton (visual artist/medium)

Caterina da Bologna/di Vigri (mystic/writer/painter)

Juan de la Cruz (mystic/writer/drawing)

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Christine Smilovici 'Les Jardins clos de l'âme' series

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Christine Smilovici 'Les Jardins clos de l'âme' series

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"“The Closed Gardens of the Soul” are a set of “head reliquaries” and an evocation of the practice of dressing skulls by nuns of Cologne from the 12th century, under the visionary inspiration of Elisabeth von Schönau and in the veneration of the cult of Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins.

This ornamental adoration produced a collection of around forty pieces extending into the 18th century.

​ “The Closed Gardens of the Soul” are tare mannequins exclusively covered in clothes taken from old folk dolls.

These heads question through their foundation as well as through their material the construction of myths, celebratory and fetishistic relationships, individual or collective." (from link above)

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The Walled Gardens of the Soul – Fiber Art Fever!

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“The Closed Gardens of the Soul” are a set of “head reliquaries” and an evocation of the practice of dressing skulls by nuns of