House of European Art London

Generally and particularly during times of uncertainty and instability, the arts play a vital role in the development and maintenance of a civilised society.

House of European Art (HEART) London is a small charity seeking to promote commonly understood European values through culture. These values, which tend to be social, secular and liberal, emphasise freedoms and opportunities with human rights, the rule of law, dignity, openness and pluralism.
 
Building partnerships to ensure the free exchange of talent, art and creativity between the United Kingdom and the European Union is at the heart of the work of HEART London.

The Hubert Butler Essay Prize

The Hubert Butler Essay Prize, founded in 2018, was the first HEART London project and is intended to encourage the art of essay-writing with a European dimension and to expand interest in Butler's work.

It is designed to reflect Butler’s interest in the common ground between the European nation states that emerged after the First World War; his concern with the position of religious and ethnic minorities; his life and writings as an encapsulation of the mantra ‘Think globally, act locally’; the importance of the individual conscience; and his work with refugees.

HEARTSCAPE

HEARTSCAPE is a new platform for writing about the arts with a European focus. The first of our contributors is Philippa Stockley, who writes:

“Art steadies, informs, enriches, and sometimes rebukes. It is the pinnacle of humanity and a marker of grace. A good painting or sculpture can stay with us for ever. It is true to say it can change our lives, and certainly open our eyes and minds. Now is a golden age of art, where the artistic glories of Europe come to us in physical as well as online form, in dazzling abundance. As a lifelong artist, visual and written, as well as an art-historian, I like to tell the reader what they may expect to find, along with my own view.”

You can read her exhibition blog here.