The Queen’s Foundation is delighted to welcome all to events marking Black History Month 2025. Please book on, download the posters and share the invitation with your community.
- Art Exhibition ‘Icons of the Invisible: Painting the Sacred in the Overlooked’. Monday 6th to Tuesday 14th October (see public sessions below)
- The Robert Beckford Lecture: Inaugural Lecture. Thursday 23rd October 2025
Art Exhibition ‘Icons of the Invisible: Painting the Sacred in the Overlooked’
Monday 6th to Tuesday 14th October (see public sessions below)
All are welcome to this powerful and contemplative art Exhibition open to the public on the following days:
- Tuesday 7th October, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
- Wednesday 8th October, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
- Thursday 9th October, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Visual artist Eddy Aigbe presents a collection of paintings that reimagine what it means to be sacred, visible, and remembered. Drawing from a personal body of work and two major commissions: Stations of the Cross for Hodge Hill Church (Birmingham) – The Stations reimagined and We Are All Saints for All Saints Church (Loughborough) – this body of work invites us to see holiness not as something distant or reserved for the few, but as something lived, struggled through, and embodied in the margins.
Through textured layers, bold symbolism, and expressive human forms, Icons of the Invisible paints a path through suffering, resilience, and collective grace. The traditional journey of Christ’s passion is placed in dialogue with contemporary struggles for dignity, belonging, and justice—especially within Black communities. The saints depicted are not only religious figures, but echoes of ancestors, activists, caregivers, and everyday people who carry the weight of history with quiet strength.
This exhibition asks:
- Who do we overlook in our sacred stories?
- What does it mean to bear a cross today?
- And how might we see the divine in each other—especially in those hidden by history?
“Icons of the Invisible: Painting the Sacred in the Overlooked” offers a striking visual theology of endurance, beauty, and the spirit that refuses to be erased. It is both a meditation and a celebration of Black people and the marginalised; an invitation to witness, remember, and reimagine the sacred.
The Robert Beckford Lecture: Inaugural Lecture
Update 30/10/2025
Join us LIVE on Monday, 3rd November for the premiere viewing of the inaugural Robert Beckford Lecture and a special online Q&A with Professor Robert Beckford.
Following the thrilling in-person event last week, we are delighted to premiere the inaugural lecture and host an online evening with Prof. Beckford.
📅 Monday 3rd November 2025
⏰ 6-8 pm: Lecture Premiere on www.youtube.com/queensfoundation
⏰ 8-9 pm: Live Q&A with Prof. Robert Beckford, moderated by Dr. Dulcie Dixon McKenzie. Register now: https://bit.ly/RBLIVE2025
✨ Your chance to engage directly in a Q&A as a follow-up to the inaugural lecture
✨ Don’t miss this thought-provoking evening of faith, justice, and transformative ideas.
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This Black History Month, join us for a historical event: the first Robert Beckford Lecture.
