Graeme Mortimer Evelyn

Graeme Mortimer Evelyn is a multimedia visual artist, musician and curator based in London and Edinburgh.

His varied body of work comments on cultural identity, politics,and language. He is noted for his works in major municipal buildings, sites of memory, and places of worship that reframe these settings and philosophies. His intention is to create “Art As Catalyst” for bridge-building between varied communities, attracting new audiences, encouraging dialogue and enabling a democratization of public spaces. His works have been exhibited, collected, and displayed by Princeton University Center for African American Studies, Cornell University, Kensington Palace, The Royal Commonwealth Society, Museum in Docklands, Gloucester Cathedral, Bristol Museums, The Royal Collection Trust, Church of England, and UNESCO. 

As artist-in-residence for Saint Stephen’s Church, Bristol (UK), in 2011, Evelyn created a permanent altarpiece, the  Reconciliation Reredos, a landmark historical contemporary artwork of universal reconciliation that was cited in the Historic England UK Government commissioned report (October 2023) as institutional best practice for contested historical memorials and artworks. He completed The Eternal Engine, the largest permanent contemporary hand-carved altarpiece in Europe, in 2017 for St Francis Church in the Diocese of London. Evelyn remains the only British Caribbean artist to complete two such permanent public art legacy works in Europe. In 2024, he began researching and developing a permanent contemporary altarpiece commission project, The Calvary Icons, for The Historic Calvary Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, scheduled for 2025/26.