6-29 May 2017 ARTISTS’ OPEN STUDIOS AND EXHIBITIONS ACROSS OXFORDSHIRE www.artweeks.org FREE FESTIVAL GUIDE & ART DIRECTORY Sponsored for 2017 by Media supporters westwaddyADP Turn your dream... Art, Music, Drama & Sport Scholarships www.mcsoxford.org May Morning by James Gibbon Year 10 Art Project We are passionate about creating Speak to one of our high quality designs that exceed Architects, Urban Designers client expectations. With flair and imagination we shape space and or Town Planners for your materials to create attractive, free consultation. economic and functional buildings that meet your aspirations. Call 01235 523139 Email [email protected] PLANNING Follow @WestWaddyADP APPLICATION 100% SUCCESS2016 westwaddyADP 2 Oxfordshire Artweeks www.artweeks.org 1 WELCOME Oxfordshire Artweeks 2017 Welcome to the 35th Oxfordshire Artweeks festival during which you can see, for free, spectacular art at hundreds of places, in artists’ homes and studios, along village trails and city streets, in galleries and gardens. It Artweeks 2017 Oxfordshire ...into a reality is your chance, whether a seasoned art enthusiast or an interested newcomer to enjoy art in a relaxed way, to meet the makers and see their creative talent in action. Artweeks is a not-for-profit organisation and relies upon the generous support of many people to whom we’re most grateful as we bring this celebration of the visual arts to you. We are thrilled to be sponsored for 2017 by West Waddy ADP, a multi-disciplinary practice combining Architects, Town Planners and Urban Designers in one consultancy. They are based in Abingdon, are passionate about place-making through design and they are delighted to support Artweeks and help offer you all the chance to bring art, design and a fresh look into your Sponsored by Sponsored westwadd own spaces. Our cover this year is a wire sculpture by Rachel Ducker who welcomes you to her Jericho studio (venue 403). Browse the listings and the accompanying website y where you’ll find hundreds of examples of artists’ work, ADP and pick the exhibitions that most appeal to you: from the traditional to the contemporary, and with drawing to Venue 390 printmaking, furniture to fashion, silverware, sculpture and more, there’s masses to explore. We hope you are If you need help with planning Speak to one of our inspired by the pieces on show and find some treasures permission, have some ideas you Architects, Urban Designers To participate in to take home with you. would like to turn into a dream home Artweeks 2018 or bigger plans for a commercial or Town Planners for your (5-28th May) please Esther Lafferty Festival Director project; we are offering a free one free consultation. Jo Golding Administrator hour consultation for your home or register by 31st business. 01235 523139 December 2017 Call Oxfordshire Artweeks, PO Box 224, Wantage, Email [email protected] PLANNING Follow @WestWaddyADP For more about taking Oxon OX2 2EJ APPLICATION 100% SUCCESS2016 part, see page 113. 01235 869059 [email protected] westwaddyADP @OxonArtweeks 2 Oxfordshire Artweeks www.artweeks.org 3 CONTENTS OXFORDSHIRE ART AND CRAFT ORGANISATIONS Key to abbreviations Special events: April & May 16 For South Oxfordshire: Sat 6 - Sun 14 May 21 Wheelchair access W The Oxford Art Society was founded in 1891 and is an umbrella for accomplished Faringdon 22 artists with diverse and exciting styles living in Oxfordshire, many of whom also exhibit Open Studio OS Wantage 25 nationally or internationally. We hold regular exhibitions, and welcome submissions Demonstrations D Didcot 26 towards membership at our annual Open Exhibition. Look for the initials OAS in this Abingdon 29 guide to find members’ work. For more information visit www.oxfordartsociety.co.uk Refreshments R Wallingford 35 Teacher T Wheatley 40 The Oxfordshire Craft Guild draws together designer-makers representing a wide Parking P Thame 42 range of traditional and contemporary crafts, and holds temporary and permanent Non-selling NS exhibitions throughout the county. Membership, which is by selection, is a sign of North & West Oxfordshire: Sat 13 – Sun 21 May 45 the finest design ability and highest quality craftsmanship. Look out for the initials Witney & villages 46 OCG in this guide to find Guild Members' work. For further information go to Kidlington 50 www.oxcg.co.uk or www.facebook.com/oxfordshirecraftguild. Woodstock 51 Oxford Art Society OAS Bicester 52 West Ox Arts is a lively association of artists and art enthusiasts, many of whom take Oxfordshire Craft Guild OCG Deddington 53 part in exhibitions alongside artists invited from across the UK. Our Gallery is an inspiring, light-filled venue that sells a wide range of contemporary, high quality art Oxford Printmakers Co-op OPC Banbury & villages 54 and offers various workshops, demonstrations and special events throughout the Chipping Norton & villages 60 West Oxfordshire Arts WOA year. We are situated in the first floor of Bampton’s Town Hall in the Market Square. Chadlington 64 For more information or to become a member of WOA visit www.westoxarts.com. Charlbury 67 You can also find us on facebook at www.facebook.com/westoxarts. Burford and the Wychwoods 71 Oxford City: Sat 20 – Mon 29 May 75 Headington & Marston 76 Our heartfelt thanks to Venue 16 westwaddyADP East Oxford 79 West Waddy ADP, our 2017 sponsor whose support makes a significant Iffley 83 difference to the festival we offer you. Visit www.westwaddy-adp.co.uk for Cowley 84 more information. City South 85 West Oxford 87 Anna Dillon, Wendy Newhofer, Hannah Newton, David Pollock Board members: City Centre 88 (Chair), Jim Robinson, Susan Williamson & Robin Wilson. Jericho 91 Volunteer area coordinators: Maggie Bicknell, Jennifer Crowshaw, Emma Summertown 96 Davies, Sally Dorrity, Penny Fulljames, Eirian Griffiths, Ella Hendy, Patsy Jones, Wolvercote & Wytham 101 Rahima Kenner, Susan Moxley, Marieke O’Connor, Tara Parker-Woolway, Francesca Shakespeare, Maureen Sparling, Melissa Orrom Swan, Jane Late entries 19 Tomlinson, Rose Wallace, & Helen White. Index of artists 105 Taking part in 2018 112 And all those other individuals and collaborating organisations who help make Artweeks a success including Janet Brown, Josh Golding, Although the majority of venues with each Artweeks Caroline Harben, Stuart Lafferty, Jill Rayner, Richard Shock, Neil Smith, Alun region open only during their regional dates, you’ll Ward, Appleton Christmas Barn, BBC Radio Oxford, Cornerstone Arts Centre, find some artists exhibiting for a longer period of Experience Oxfordshire, Modern Art Oxford, OUP, OX magazine, Oxfordshire time. Browse the listings to take advantage of these Library Service, The Ashmolean, The Jam Factory, The Mill Banbury, The Oxford additional days or use our search facility at Times, and many others. artweeks.org/festival/search 4 Oxfordshire Artweeks www.artweeks.org 5 Venue 9 Abingdon School 01235 849041 Abingdon Prep School 01865 391570 discover more abingdon.org.uk Independent education for boys from 4-18 years Rye St Antony is an independent day and boarding school for girls aged 3-18 (and boys 3-11). Established in 1930 as a lay Catholic foundation, the school is situated in a beautiful 12-acre location overlooking the city of Oxford. The Dragon School, Oxford Art Scholarships available at 11+, 13+ and 16+ Proud to be part of Oxfordshire Artweeks Visitors are welcome throughout the year. Please telephone the Registrar, Fern Williams, The spiritual, moral, social and to make an appointment. cultural development of the pupils is excellent Pullen’s Lane, Oxford OX3 0BY Independent Schools Inspectorate Inspection Report, November 2014 01865 762802 [email protected] www.ryestantony.co.uk T: +44(0)1865 315405 E: [email protected] Dragon School, Oxford 6 Oxfordshire Artweeks www.artweeks.org 7 XXXX ART Oxfordshire Art e Exotic and the ART ART Beautiful Everyday COMING hrough a variety of papercuts, most of all and I love working from life rather woodblock prints and lithographs than photos, but sometimes when I don’t have any spanning several centuries, you can sitters, I will paint just something from the fridge!” meet adventurous and mischievous printmaker, Debbie Sutcli e, who was once a Tmonkeys which span Asia, from Iran to Japan. e Meanwhile, Cotswold artist Mary Knowland is exhibition highlights two of the mythical monkey currently producing drawings and paintings with gures best known outside Asia – the Hindu an ‘unseeing’ technique, creating art without medical illustrator for Oxford University Press, monkey warrior Hanuman and the Monkey King looking at it. Mary tells us more: in scenes from ‘Journey to the West’, one of the “It seems counterintuitive, but the ‘unseeing’ Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature process requires full focus on the subject matter, now reduces the human form to simple shapes, (widely-known as Waley’s abridged translation and creates a greater connection with what you’re ‘Monkey’), and probably the most popular book observing - whether it’s a group of objects, a gure in the history of the Far East, dating back to the or a place. capturing in a perfect line the arch of a back or sixteenth century and latter half of the Ming “Brain-hand-eye-coordination takes over the Celebrating the Dynasty. making process and the essence of the subject e exhibition shows us not only monkeys emerges as a drawing or painting. I love working breast in a reclining position, or a dance or other as gods but as creatures in the wild too, as can this way and adding the paint after the drawn be seen in a 1900 print of the native Japanese ink lines which, to my amazement, always lands macaque by proli c Japanese printmaker Ohara roughly where it needs to be!” movement. Koson. Koson was best known for his depictions of birds and owers, however, and like many other e everyday inspires art in three dimensions, too.