Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin (PhD) is an Independent Scholar in Philosophical Aesthetics. Originally from Holland, she taught for eight years at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto and, more recently, at the Department of Theology an Religious Studies of Kings's College London, where she is still a Visiting Research Scholar. She is the curator of the exhibition ‘Art, Conflict and Remembrance: the murals of the Bogside Artists’ and is currently working on a book on the philosopher Susanne K. Langer to be published by Bloomsbury in 2018. She lives with her husband Jonathan Chaplin in a small village near Cambridge in the UK.
Bio last updated January 19th, 2022.
Articles by Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
The Art Of Troubled Remembering
By Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
November 17, 2017
Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin brought two artists to church on Remembrance Weekend: muralists from Northern Ireland’s Bogside neighbourhood who have memorialized that city’s bloody sectarian sorrows in order to create space for remembering, truth-telling and reconciliation.
The artists had been staying with us for the weekend to attend the travelling exhibition Art, Conflict and Remembering: the murals of the Bogside Artists that I have been curating with them over the last few years My guests, Tom Kelly and Kevin Hasson, are two muralists from the Bogside area of Derry/Londonderry, a working-class Catholic neighbourhood that had earlier suffered severe discrimination by Protestant Unionists and become the epicentre of the violent, 30-year conflict known as ‘The Troubles’ that officially began on October 5 1968 with a non-sectarian civil rights march in Derry, and concluded with the Good Friday Agreement on April 10 1998 in Belfast The exhibition tells the story of the Troubles as experienced first-hand by the artists, through large photographic reproductions of their murals juxtaposed with black and white historical photographs