Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin

Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and Research Associate at the Margaret Beaufort Institute, Cambridge. She is the author of The Philosophy of Susanne Langer: Embodied Meaning in Logic, Art and Feeling (Bloomsbury, 2019).

About the Contributor

Originally from the Netherlands, Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin earned her PhD in philosophy at the Free University in Amsterdam, alongside studies in art history and musicology. She taught for eight years at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, where she was also an Associate Member of the Toronto School of Theology, and served as President of the Canadian Society for Aesthetics from 2005 to 2007. A curator as well as a scholar, she launched the travelling exhibition Art, Conflict and Remembering: The Murals of the Bogside Artists, shown in cathedrals and universities across the UK. She is co-author of Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts (IVP, 1999).

Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin's Work

Sep 16, 2025

Video: Art, Conflict and Healing: Case Studies from Northern Ireland, China and Ukraine

Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin

This lecture explores contemporary artists—Bogside Artists, Ai Weiwei, and Ukrainian creators—whose powerful works respond to conflict and oppression.