2-25 May 2015 Artists’ Open Studios & Exhibitions Across Oxfordshire
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OXFORDSHIRE ARTWEEKS OXFORDSHIRE ARTWEEKS 2-25 MAY 2015 FREE FESTIVAL GUIDE 2015 FREE FESTIVAL ARTISTS’ OPEN STUDIOS & EXHIBITIONS ACROSS OXFORDSHIRE FREE FESTIVAL GUIDE www.artweeks.org INCLUDES CHRISTMAS EXHIBITIONS Supported by OLA offers small class sizes, outstanding pastoral care and a wide range of academic and extra-curricular activities, ensuring our pupils are confident, engaged and excited about their next steps in life. For further information, call 01235 523147 (Junior School) or 01235 524658 (Senior School), or visit www.olab.org.uk R a d l e y R o a d · A b i n g d o n - o n - T h a m e s · O x f o r d s h i r e · O X 1 4 3 P S Artweeks IFC 2015.indd 1 11/20/2014 2:54:23 PM Carefully delivered to Oxfordshire’s finest homes and venues Carefully deliveredfinest homes to Oxfordshire’s and venues OCTOBER 2014 OXOCTOBERCarefully 2014 delivered to Oxfordshire’s finest homes and venues OXOXOCTOBER 2014 Each monthOX OX magazine brings the Oxfordshire art your complimentary copy your complimentary copy your complimentary copy scene to an audience that delights in Oxfordshire art E EDITS Artweeks E EDITS Artweeks E EDITS Artweeks Artweeks EDITS E the building has sprung back to life with magical OXFORDSHIRE ARTWEEKS characters to whisk you away into the imaginative CHRISTMAS EXHIBITIONS stories of your childhood 11-6pm 22nd-23rd November at dozens of venues across the county As Christmas comes closer, we’re all on the hunt for that unusual and unique Christmas gift, and to help you out, across the county, artists and designer-makers who are normally hidden from view (and quite possibly hibernate in the deepest snows between the summer Oxfordshire Artweeks festivals) are braving the wintry winds and hosting festive exhibitions and shows for one weekend only. Robert Strange E Malorie Blackman as the Wicked© WitchCambridge of the Jones West The Art of Remembrance EDITS James C. Cochrane Modern Art Oxford which is currently hosting an exhibition of recent and site-specific work the ancient stories of dragons who live deep by internationally acclaimed artist, Barbara in the ground beneath the city! children’s books ever written which the city Kruger whose dramatic juxtapositions of The old Post Office buildings also housed now celebrates with an annual Alice’s Day bold lettering and images present a thought- a postal workers’ canteen high in the which proved very successful last month. provoking take on popular culture today. heart of the city’s skyline, giant windows This was the seventh year and was Alongside her iconic 1980s paste-up works, giving a panoramic vista. Now however, coordinated by The Story Museum, a recent Kruger’s new installation emerges in direct the building has sprung back to life with addition to the city’s cultural offering, and it isAs Christmas comes closer, we’re response to the distinctive quality of space magical characters to whisk you away into EDITS The Art of Remembrance The Story Museum that you’ll first find tuckedall on the hunt for that unusual and and light in the gallery and life in the city using E Thethe artist imaginative Paul Nash stories (1889-1946) of your childhood, who sat upon these hills early in the twentieth century and said, away on Pembroke Street, now regularlyunique Christmas gift, and to help you green, a colour that has seldom appeared in and instead of postmen enjoying a bacon roll opening its doors onto a brightly colouredout, across the county, artists and her repertoire before but reflects perfectly the Caroline Chappell Ewa Exley & Amy Blaza ‘Everbefore since their round I remember you’ll find Rupert them the Bear,the Clumps had meant something to me. I felt their courtyard, the first stages towards realisingdesigner-makers who are normally hidden quadrangles of Oxford’s architecture. Mary Poppins and Peter Pan. an imaginative vision for the future. hiddenimportance from view (and long quite possiblybefore I knew theirbattle history. elds he had They fought wereupon.’ And the so pyramidsin of my small world.’ This is part of a striking exhibition of ‘26 This secret courtyard, once stabling for hibernatean in the deepest snows In rural Oxfordshire,the cold bleak for winter example, last year,the villages Anna went classicalon and modern designs for those black O’Connor’s colourful ceramics are imprinted lightweight porcelain stars, hand decorated Characters’ which runs until 2nd November old inn, complete with a writer’s garret inbetween a First the encountering summer Oxfordshire them in his late teenageof Chadlington,a reconnaissance Charlbury andstudy Chalgrove of the First will World tieWar events. with delicate lace and embroidery; textile to go on a tree (44 Blandford Avenue OX2 THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE in which leading children’s authors have been rickety attic, is surrounded on its other sidesArtweeks years, festivals) he was immediatelyare braving thecaught by burst forthbattle with elds,a ‘chorus’ visited ofBritish artists front – lineI’ve tunnelsAcross the city, several dozen artists and artist Sue Crisp’s colourful butter ies will 8DZ). captured in the guise of their childhood heroes by twentieth century buildings that standwintry their winds atmospheric and hosting shapes festive and mystical decided thatand rechorus ected is on a the good regenerated collective chalk-land designer-makers open their doors in the utter round the Garden Room with hooked In West Oxford Wendy Skinner Smith by celebrity portrait photographer Cambridge behind the city post office and once housedexhibitions associations. and shows The forClumps one became a richnoun for artistscountryside who burstof the forthSomme with as colour seen todayspirit of Christmas and invite you to see their and prodded wings in abstract and geometric (48 Helen Road OX2 0DE) shows some of Brown. And I was delighted to find that each Oxford’s sorting office and first telephoneweekend source only. of inspiration and he returned to andpaint life, thefrom visual a helicopter. equivalent Now of a green symphony and verdant, latest work and nd, if you wish, some unique designs and Mark Bryant’s brightly coloured Oxford’s most well-known places in a different and every photo was encapsulated in its own exchange and I’ve learnt some of its secrets. them many times during his life. - while in theHarwell underlying (1 Orchard scars on Way, the landscapeOX11 frompresents to put under the tree. Start your pictures are in paint and pastel; and Jean light as she portrays the Ashmolean and the little world reflecting the story from which the Lochnagar Crater For example, behind a giant shutter, there’s Today in her Aston Tirrold studio in the0LQ), lea of artist those Robert days Strange of utter will devastation be showing are still Christmasclear with glass ornaments, jewellery and Wykes’ will show character portraits in pencil, newly-opened Natural History Museum in character is plucked. even a hidden passage through to St the Ridgeway and on the edge of the Berkshirewintry landscape to see, scenes the remnants from The of theRidgeway times depicted ceramics in Summertown, sculptural lanterns unusual photograms and photography. re ections whilst a group of artists present With my own little band of merry men, Just Aldate’s, through which The Story Museum Downs, Anna Dillon, one of Oxfordshire’salongside newin the works dark andfrom powerful bright paintingsand fun fromand the wild winter photography in Headington, Ross Mackenzie too will be showing wild a varied Christmas exhibition at the nearby William, Harry Potter and Pippi Longstocking staff hold ancient rights to drive a horse and best landscape artists is inspired by bothseries the of ‘Squashed’First World illustrationsWar can still includingbe read upon wide the variety in west Oxford, silverware and winter photographs at his Headington home West Oxford Community Centre (OX2 0BT). (aged from 9 to 13), we found Merlin in an cart. When the team at the Story Museum same views that inspired Paul Nash a crackercentury toys undulationsand dice from of the those land, Christmas a testament toan the East Oxford festive festival, and an artisan (34 Stile Road, Headington, OX3 8AQ) from For an artists’ festival, Magdalen Road ivy-clad castle-turret, peered into a cupboard Ewa Exley & Amy Blaza signed the contract for building in 2009 they earlier, and by his artwork. board gamesimpact –The whose Story of war oor Museum on doesn’t the landscape, lookpresents like a newmarketplace layer at The Ashmolean. which he ventures to the world most remote Studios have joined forces with Pegasus that houses The Borrowers, visited Max’s were given a bunch of 183 keys, yet they Paul Nash is a painter much associatedthis when with the ofchildren26 history Characters are on underfoot?the surface until 2nd of theNovember. earth justKennett as Road Artists (13 Kennett Road, places. Showing polar bears in the Arctic Theatre and present a weekend of Christmas Bedroom from Where The Wild Things and iron age forts left their marks millennia earlier. have only found three which fit keyholes. the Wittenham clumps and is fast becomingYou’ll nd a winter wonderland in the fairylit Headington,OX3 7BH) where ceramicist Lou and penguins in the Falkland Islands and the entertainment in East Oxford, where you’ll pushed through a fur-lined wardrobe into a www.storymuseum.orgThe Lochnagar crater on the.uk 1916 Somme Meanwhile, on the ground floor stand several one of the most well-known War Artistsgarden of his of artist Pip Stacey in Wootton (217 Cox makes a variety of ceramic sculptures Antarctic, on cards and giftware as well as also nd printmaking, silverware and more, or Narnian Wonderland, and invented fantastical battleModern elds Art in FranceOxford is presents the largest man-made For more information on these giant strong rooms of which two remain generation.