Abstract
This dissertation examines the art and practices of two Aotearoa New Zealand artists Ralph Hotere (1931-2013) and Joanna Margaret Paul (1945-2003) with a specific focus on their spiritual sensibilities, and in response to the implications involved in interdisciplinary dialogue between religion, theology and art history. Through the particularities of their respective art and practices, I argue that these artists provide ethical and religious interpretations of the relation of the divine to the world, that both disrupt problematic disembodied notions of the spiritual in art and hinder any single theological interpretation of their contributions. Their religiously understated practices evoke theopoetic expressions for a method of theology as art.