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Artweeks 10.2.Pages saturday 8 - monday 31 may 2010 free guide www.artweeks.org Sponsored by Welcome to Artweeks 2010 2010 is set to be the biggest Artweeks ever with 474 sites exhibiting during the Festival. Artweeks plays a vital role in bringing artists and art enthusiasts and buyers together across the county. Our goal this year is to bring new audiences to the work of Oxfordshire's creative community, those who might find the idea of going to a gallery daunting. By visiting an open studio and talking to the artist you get to understand the creative process, the way they have tried to convey their ideas and the effect they have created. Most of the works on view are for sale and you'll find some originals at prices that you might pay for a mass-produced copy in a quality department store. Artweeks is all about involvement and originality; by simply going along to a couple of studios and seeing what is on offer, you too add to the vibrancy of Oxfordshire's biggest arts festival. See it. Love it. Buy it. Nick Thorn Chair, Oxfordshire Artweeks Key to abbreviations and symbols in this guide W wheelchair access OPC Oxford Printmakers Co-op PW partial wheelchair access OCG Oxfordshire Craft Guild F family friendly OAS Oxford Art Society 2 T teas WOA West Oxfordshire Arts D demonstrations Contents Artweeks Office Special Events 7 PO Box 559, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 9EF Children’s Workshops 11 Tel 01865 865596 [email protected] Oxford City 19 www.artweeks.org Sat 8 May - Sun 16 May The office is open Monday, Oxford City 20 Wednesday and Friday, 9.30-2.30. City West 23 Jericho 25 Festival Director: Caryn Paladina Summertown & Wolvercote 32 Administrator: Jo Golding Marston & Headington 41 East Oxford 44 Iffley 50 Participating in Artweeks 2011 South Oxfordshire 53 Artweeks 2011 will open at the Sat 15 May - Mon 23 May beginning of May. Full details will be Wheatley 54 posted on our website when the Kennington 56 dates are confirmed. Entry forms will Cumnor & Appleton 57 be available from the end of Abingdon 58 September 2010 and should be Faringdon 60 returned to the Artweeks’ office no Wantage 62 later than December 3rd 2010 to be Didcot 63 included. Walllingford 68 Henley 69 Sites open at other times North Oxfordshire 73 Sites open throughout Artweeks Sat 22 May - Sun 31 May City: 13,14,17,19,39,42,92,129,132, Banbury & Cherwell 74 142,154, 155,183,184,186 Hook Norton & Chipping Norton 80 South: 189,205,217,218,285,286 Chadlington 87 North: 363,368,417,426,456,463,468 Charlbury 90 Additional sites also open during: Woodstock 95 Bicester & Kidlington 96 City week:189,205,217,218,285,293,363, Eynsham 99 368, 417, 426,430,456,463,468 Witney 101 South week12,13,14,17,19,30,31,39,42, 61, Burford & Bampton 103 92,129,132,136,140,142,144,154,155,163, 167,183,184,186,363,368,392,417,424,426, Index of participants 107 430,435,456,459,463,468 North week:11,13,14,17,19,39,42,71,92,124, 3 129,132,142,154,155,156,183,184,186,189,205, 210,212,217, 218,280,283,285, 286 The Artweeks’ Board would like to thank the following for their generous support oxlink Thanks also to Eye Division for sponsoring our online gallery and Tei Williams for PR and marketing. Artweeks is run by a board comprising artists and other professionals who volunteer their time and expertise. Area organisers are volunteer participating artists. Area Organisers Artweeks Board Christine O’Sullivan (Cherwell) David Attwooll Anuk Naumann (Chipping Norton) Clare Bassett Maureen Wilsker (North West Oxon) Sue Matthew Susan Moxley & Francesca Shakespeare (Summertown) Mary Moser Clare Bassett & Rachel Ducker (Jericho) Susie Moxley Rahima Kenner (Oxford City) Lois Muddiman Helen White (West Oxford) Anuk Naumann Jan Purrett (Headington) Cath Nightingale Simon Murison-Bowie (East Oxford) Caryn Paladina (Festival Director) Patsy Jones (Vale of White Horse) Claire Reika Wright Melita Kyle (Didcot) Nick Thorn (Chair) Ben & Susan Drew (Faringdon) Chris Ward Distributors 4 Artspace (Henley), Stella Campion, Iona House Gallery (Woostock), West Oxfordshire Arts, Victoria Stanway (Bicester), Judith Penrose Brown (Abingdon) Cover illustration by Lucien Ohanian Printed by The Holywell Press Ltd (winner of the Artwines Competition) THE MARY MOSER AWARD This annual award was established in 2003, to honour the work and commitment to Artweeks, over many years, of Lady Mary Moser.The award is intended to help develop the career of a professional artist who has taken up art as a second career later in life, with a small cash prize. In 2009, the fifth MMA was given to Richard Shock. ‘My career as a chemical engineer was spent at the Harwell Research Centre, as international manager for some of the UK’s climate change programmes. I took up woodturning as a hobby at the age of 50 becoming absorbed when people responded by buying my work. Fascinated by the variety of woods available and inspired by some of the top UK turners with whom I have trained I became a full time turner. I was accepted as a Member of the Oxfordshire Craft Guild in 2003, exposing me to fresh ideas from the work of other crafts, especially ceramics and glass, and as a Registered Professional Turner in 2008. I am focussed on attention to design in woodturning and on promoting it as an art form. While continuing to make bowls and platters, often with my signature inlays, I also make purely artistic forms, again using the inlays to heighten but not overwhelm the background. Some of my work has been shown in galleries in the South East of England but currently I keep busy focussing on exhibitions throughout Oxfordshire.’ 5 Richard’s work will be exhibited at the O3 Gallery throughout Artweeks. CALENDER OF EVENTS ‘Artwines’ Exhibition of wine labels designs 25 March - at The Jam Factory Oxford (see page 7) 21 April Sculpture Garden & exhibition of wood turning 1 May - at the O3 Gallery,Oxford Castle, Oxford (see page 8) 4 June ‘Taster’ Exhibition by Artweeks’ artists 5 - at Vale & Downland Museum,Wantage (see page 9) 29 May Summertown Festival (see page 10) 8 May Walking Tour: Natural Garden Beauty (see page 9) 8 May Film night at The Phoenix: 9 May talk & film about Spanish artist Goya (see page 7) Art Forum: Art and Science: Do they inform each other? 11 May University Museum of Natural History, Oxford (see page 10) Walking Tour: Natural Garden Beauty (see page 9) 15 May Walking Tour: Gargoyles & Grotesques (see page 9) 19 May Walking Tour: Bodleian Architecture (see page 9) 29 May ARTWINES COMPETITION This is the second year of collaboration between Artweeks and the Oxford Wine Company. Artweeks’ artists were invited to design a wine label for a new wine & the artists’ submissions are on display at The Jam Factory in Oxford until 25th April.As well as the winning design appearing on the wine label, it also adorns the Artweeks’ Guide cover. Our congratulations go to the winner for 2010, 11-year-old Lucien Ohanian, with his intriguing photograph of a wine bottle, taken from an unusual angle. Lucien has been exhibiting in Artweeks for several years and his work is again on display this year in Jericho (site 52). 6 SPECIAL EVENTS 7 SPECIAL EVENTS O3 Gallery, Oxford Castle Saturday 1st – Sunday 30th May Paul Ridley: Monochromatics an exhibition of photographs in black and white Sarah Naybour original prints and paintings inspired by landscapes Richard Shock Oxfordshire Craft Guild Wood Turner Mary Moser Award Winner 2010 - see page 5 A Sculpture Garden created by landscape designers Sarah Naybour & Paul Ridley On the courtyard lawn behind O3 Gallery Sculpture Garden sponsored by: Eynsham Park Sawmill Bampton Garden Plants Ltd. Cuckoo Lane, Bampton OX18 2AA Witney OX29 6PS www.bamptongardenplants.co.uk www.eynshamparksawmill.co.uk tel: 01993 852233 tel: 01993 881319 8 O3 Gallery, Oxford Castle, OX1 1AY 01865 246131 [email protected] www.o3gallery.co.uk SPECIAL EVENTS GARGOYLES & NATURAL GARDEN GROTESQUES BEAUTY Discover the beauties of the university’s Join our 2 hour walking tour & discover college gardens. You will be seduced by the some of Oxford’s less attractive exhibits in a landscaping, the sculpture and the number of university college locations! tranquillity of these hidden treasures. Wed 19 May 8 & 15 May Meet at 2pm at the Clarendon Building, Meet at 10.30am at the Clarendon Building, Broad Street, Oxford. Broad Street, Oxford. Numbers are strictly limited, so please book in Numbers are strictly limited, so please book in advance by calling the Artweeks’ office on advance by calling the Artweeks’ office on 01865 865596. Tickets £5 p/p. 01865 865596. Tickets £5 p/p. VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM ‘TASTER’ BODLEIAN EXHIBITION ARCHITECTURE Artweeks' artists from the Wantage area will be displaying examples of their work, to help you select sites which A fascinating insight into the unique internal you might like to visit. architecture of the world’s most famous library. Visit the Divinity School, the Radcliffe Camera, 5 - 29 May Convocation House, the Upper Reading Room, Monday to Saturday Chancellor’s Court & Duke Humfrey’s Library 10.00 to 4.00 with our Blue Badge tour guide. Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays Sat. 29 May Vale & Downland Museum, Meet at 1.45pm at the Clarendon Building, Church Street,Wantage OX12 8BL Broad Street, Oxford. (01235) 771447 [email protected] Numbers are strictly limited, so please book in 9 advance by calling the Artweeks’ office on No wheelchair access Café 01865 865596.
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