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Emerging Voices

Ones to watch, ages 17 to 29. First works, early promise.

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Unknown, for now

A showcase of the kind of artist the Awards exist to find. These profiles are fictional placeholders, illustrating the range we hope to discover.

Portrait of Fionn KilbrideWriting

Fionn Kilbride, 22

The Bread We Break, Galway

A first collection of poems written between shifts at his family's bakery.

Portrait of Adaeze OkonkwoTheatre

Adaeze Okonkwo, 24

The Upper Room, Lagos

A one-act play staged in a parish hall for an audience of forty.

Portrait of Matteo FerranteMusic

Matteo Ferrante, 19

Canticle at Dusk, Assisi

A cycle of songs for guitar recorded in a single night in a stone chapel.

Portrait of Seo-yeon ParkSacred Music

Seo-yeon Park, 26

Missa Brevis for Small Voices, Seoul

A Missa brevis written for her parish choir of amateurs.

Portrait of Emiliano NavarreteVisual Arts

Emiliano Navarrete, 21

Our Lady of the Harbor, Guadalajara

His first icon, painted over eight months in a borrowed garage.

Portrait of Róisín HartiganArchitecture

Róisín Hartigan, 28

Chapel of the Quiet Hours, Cork

A competition design for a chapel at a rural hospice, not yet built.

Portrait of Paolo VillanuevaFilm and Media

Paolo Villanueva, 23

Those Who Carry, Manila

A twelve-minute documentary about the fishermen who carry the Black Nazarene.

Portrait of Clémence ValcourtDance

Clémence Valcourt, 18

Fiat, Lyon

A solo dance work first shown in the nave of her school chapel.

Ones to watch

Writing “Every genuine art form in its own way is a path to the inmost reality of man and of the world.” ¶6

Mei Zamoyski, 24

Psalm of the Stones
Munich

Esperanza Rosenthal, 29

After the Flood
Munich

Theatre “an ethic, even a “spirituality” of artistic service” ¶4

Benedikt Rosenthal, 18

Bread of Angels
Melbourne

Tobias Galloway, 25

First Light
Lagos

Music “art remains a kind of bridge to religious experience” ¶10

Pietro Yeboah, 27

Salt and Light
Valletta

Benedikt Ashcombe, 25

Lumen
Dublin

Sacred Music “Our only art is faith and our music Christ” ¶7

Kofi Santangelo, 20

The Narrow Gate
Valletta

Gabriel Lindqvist, 24

The Second Annunciation
Philadelphia

Visual Arts “ingenious creators of beauty” ¶1

Oisín Whitlock, 27

After the Flood
Kochi

Teodor Galloway, 24

The Hidden Life
Chicago

Architecture “churches which are both places of prayer and true works of art” ¶12

Mateus Galloway, 28

Canticle of Creatures
Chicago

Leo Brennan, 21

A Vigil in Winter
Kraków

Film and Media “a renewed “epiphany” of beauty in our time” ¶10

Liesl Iturbe, 23

Bread of Angels
Seville

Thandiwe Fairweather, 17

The Second Annunciation
Kraków

Dance “Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence.” ¶16

Kateri Dunmore, 24

Ave Maris Stella
Guadalajara

Agnieszka Fairweather, 26

Tota Pulchra
Florence