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From the traditional to the contemporary, your complimentary copy your complimentary copy py your complimentary co scene to an audience that delights in Oxfordshire art and with drawing to printmaking, furniture to fashion, silverware, sculpture and more, there’s masses to E Artweeks EDITS explore. We hope you are inspired by the pieces on E EDITS Artweeks show and find some treasures to take home with you. E EDITS Art Weeks Art Weeks EDITS E Fresh perspectives on an old city The Thames in Textiles Oxford Preservation Trust set up in 1927 to protect the views of Oxford and its striking skyline, painted by Our cover image this year was taken by photographer Turner and many other famous artists. Today the architecture and the vibrancy of the city continue to inspire artists and so, to celebrate the Charlie Collier and shows the process in Oxford’s city for both ‘town’ and ‘gown’, new views of old views have been painted by a variety of artists from near and far all competing to win the new Oxford Art Prize. Anagama Kiln in Wytham (venue 180). E Artweeks EDITS In June, artists fl ocked to the city with their stools and sketchpads, palettes and easels The River Thames, the longest river to The word ‘Haptic’ comes from the Greek to capture en-plein-air what they saw. Two months later, they are returning the pictures weave its way from sousourcerce to sea entirely ‘haptikos’ relating to the sesensense of touch. For Don’t forget we’re on-line all year round, and remember that resulted from their days on location to hang in an exhibition in Oxford’s Town Hall within England, flows through Oxfordshire all these textile and mimixedxed media artists the and the O3 Gallery in the historic Oxford Castle Quarter. and Berkshire to west London where it physical feel of a creaticreationon is an important de plume of Sir Christopher Ball, sometime becomes tidal, througthroughh OOxford,xford, Abingdon, element of their art. However, each is inspired Warden of Keble College. These were Flowers and Steve Daggitt is an Oxford artist who paints Take a journey to the O3 Gallery in Oxford Wallingford, Henley, Reading and Windsor. by the Thames in a ddifferentifferent way and the presented in a book That Sweet City, a phrase the architecture, people and streets of Oxford. Castle Quarter with its Norman Tower, ancient Changing slowly over ttime,ime, the river played variety on showtrees reflects, have like ever changing coined by Oxford’s Victorian poet Matthew that’s when you discover new angles on what its part in the development of the people views on the surfacesurface of the water, their to keep this directory in a safe place as many of the The well-known buildings and sights of the crypts and chequered history as a gaol, and Arnold. Designed in the form of seven walks you see, the present and the past too. Jim Robinson city appear in his work but so do out-of-the to Oxford’s grand Town Hall with its dancehall, in the Thames Valley, anandd steeped in their individual journeys as ttheheyy each approach through industrial areas, cityscape to make the river cleaner’ adds Mary Brodrick across and around Oxford, and radiating out One of the poems in That Sweet City long provided way spots and residential streets. “The city panelling, replaces and chandeliers, to be traditions, is at the heahearrtt of their heritage and the Thames from different perspective, seaside, and from the earliest of civilisation who is also inspired by the riverside. into the surrounding countryside, the book describes the War Memorial Garden in Christ of Oxford is an endless source of inspiration,” look again at a city you thought you knew, the history of England. Monarchs including whether rooted in the natunaturalral or the social until the present day, and shows this with Walking the Thames towpath locally through maps Katherine’s travels as she sketched the Church, laid out in 1926 to commemorate inspiration as EDITS Artweekshe explains. “So many things come together Julian Parfitt and be delighted by fresh and interesting Henry VIII used it to travel between the worlds through which it glides. her representations of London Bridge and the four seasons of the year, has inspired the E buildings and landscapes, both famous and college members who fell in the First World to create a special atmosphere: the range of perspectives. palaces that line the Thames: Windsor Castle, Janewell O’Brien as pigmentsis an Oxford artist who, with Abingdon Bridge once an important river textile art of Caroline Benge who captures artists will also be holding Christmas exhibitions or are less well-known, that have witnessed and War, just one layer of history in the grounds architectural styles from medieval to modern; The exhibition runs from Saturday 29th Hampton Court Westminster Palace and the a background in interior design, finds much crossing. On this major thoroughfare and glimpses of nature beside the river like ‘little shaped the city’s history. of the college traditionally considered the the population mix of permanent residents, August until Sunday 13th September. For Tower of London too, anandd it has hosted Royal of her inspirationfor paintersin textiles themselves and trade route, now a modest waterway largely jewels’. Katherine describes the pleasure of most aristocratic of all those in the university, Beatrice Hoffmanstudents and tourists, the combination of further details see www.oxfordartprize. Pageants for centuries.centuries. the messages that thetheyy conveyconvey through their given over to leisure activities. ‘A favourite walk of mine is along the River discovering spots around Oxford in which which once housed the parliament of King strong cultural, commercial and industrial co.uk. And on that last weekend you’ll also Swan Upping is anotheranother cceremonialeremonial activity construction, colours and the patterns within Yumiko Reynolds has created townscapes Thames at Lower Radley,’ adds Abingdon to capture its immensely beautiful cityscape, Charles I during the English Civil War. And it Oxfordshire artist, Steve Daggitt sectors and the green spaces in the heart of have a chance to inside scores of interesting that takes place only on the Thames, during them. She uses fabricsfabrics anandd thread to create a of Abingdon, and St Helen’s Wharf, while artist Ticia Lever. ‘I am always fascinated by odd corners crammed with character or was here that Lewis Carroll rst espied Alice the city. which swans, traditionally owned by the visual response about social culture and the Julia Straiton’s view of today’s tranquil the majestic sweep and power of the river happy to make an appointment to show you their work or spaces within the city that are usually characters and the gentle light on its mellow Liddell, the namesake of Alice in Wonderland, In each drawing Steve aims to convey the closed to the public for Oxford Open Doors monarch, are rounded up annually to be world around us. river and the weathered structures along it here and also the peace and beauty of the stonework. ‘But perhaps above all,’ she and here that he wrote the classic children’s sense of excitement and dynamism that (www.oxfordopendoors.org.uk). counted, a tradition ddatingating from the twelfth For this exhibition, bbecauseecause of the includes a World War II pillbox, a glimpse of surrounding landscape. The colour of the continues, ‘I most enjoy the people passing story, published 150 years ago, beneath the these things give to the city, whether the Cassie Butcher century and formalised with a Royal Charter importance of the Thames as a source of another chapter in the Thames’ past. water reflects the changing light and the and stopping to watch me draw and have a Cheshire cat tree. ow of a crowd in the street, the seemingly by Edward IV in 1482. livelihood down the cencenturturiesies which made ‘And the backdrop of the Thames changes skies above and it is the altering colours and chat. It is one of those few times in life when THE MEMORIAL GARDEN chaotic movement at a junction, gures It is no wonder, thereforetherefore that in 2012, London a world famous port and trade constantly’, continues artist Gill Banks.