SEP — OCT 2018 SHOP EVENTS CAFÉ BAR FREE EXHIBITIONS WELCOME Welcome to the autumn programme at Modern Art Oxford. Our main exhibition Future Knowledge celebrates the role of creativity in generating solutions to the earth's problems. From showcasing the ingenuity of biomimicry, to displaying thought-provoking work by artists who explore climate change in their practice, Future Knowledge investigates the role of artistic enquiry in #0308-2B31Llareta (2,000 + years old; Atacama generating creative responses to environmental issues. , , 2008. Image © Rachel Sussman. The new academic year sees the return of our annual exhibition celebrating and supporting graduate artists. Rachel Sussman The Platform Graduate Award is a series of three solo Desert, Chile) exhibitions by selected graduates from Oxford Brookes University, University of Reading and The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. We welcome back the Shadowlight Artists who last exhibited at the gallery in 2016. The group showcase their increasingly ambitious work as a disability arts collective in this exhibition split across two venues, Arts at the Old Fire Station and Modern Art Oxford. Image courtesy the artist. 2018 , Latent, Annie Le Santo EXPLORE AT WWW.MODERNARTOXFORD.ORG.UK BOOK EVENTS ONLINE OR CALL US +44 (0) 1865 722 733 EXHIBITION Future Knowledge 22 September – 28 October 2018 Free entry, all welcome Preview Party: Friday 21 September, 6.30–9pm Eve Mutso performance: Friday 21 September, 6.30–7pm , 2015. Installation view: Tania , solo exhibition, Museum of Science & Future Knowledge is a thought- Moving through the exhibition visitors Indian provoking exhibition exploring the role will be introduced to environmental , of visual culture in continuing to raise innovations, revealing new site-specific Evaporation awareness of the effects of climate methods for understanding our change. Building upon last year’s domestic and local relationships to Tania KovatsTania inaugural edition (20 May – 25 June systems of production, systematic Kovats, Industry, Manchester (2015). Courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. Copyright Chris Foster / Manchester. Science Industry, and of Museum 2017), this exhibition brings together waste, and inadvertent pollution. artworks, prototypes and projects by artists, designers and thinkers The final gallery space will be used from a range of different disciplines, as a public studio, demonstrating in order to showcase fascinating ingenuity in the face of climate and diverse creative responses change through prototypes, new to environmental concerns. biomimicry designs and innovative materials, as well as hosting events This dynamic show begins with an and activities that invite visitors to aerial performance by dancer and join in. For full details of the events choreographer Eve Mutso on the taking place in this space, please evening of the Preview Party. The visit our website. marks she makes with her pointe shoes in graphite powder will Featured artists: Exploration . remain in situ as a floor drawing Architecture, How Natures Builds, as part of the first section of the Lucy Kimbell, Tania Kovats, Eline exhibition, which reflects on the McGeorge, Eve Mutso, Andy Owen interconnectedness of all living and Rachel Sussman. beings over a vast timescale. ‘The best art and science projects enhance and extend each other, bringing some things Ecovative mycelium planters new to both; they are not simply about making research pretty, or making art works using scientific tools.' Future Knowledge is part of the nationwide project Season for Change, which invites artists and arts Eve Mutso: loop commissioned by The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Image © Ecovative Design. Mycelium planters, planters, Mycelium organisations from across the country explore to climate change through creative presentation – Rachel Sussman, 2014 EXPLORE AT WWW.MODERNARTOXFORD.ORG.UK BOOK EVENTS ONLINE OR CALL US +44 (0) 1865 722 733 EXHIBITION Platform Graduate Award 2018 5 September – 14 October 2018 , 2018. Free entry, all welcome Vanishing Point Vanishing Celebrating new artistic talent from Platform is led by the Contemporary , across the south east, the Platform Visual Arts Network South East Graduate Award is a series of three (CVAN South East) and is a partnership solo exhibitions throughout between five galleries: Aspex in September and early October, by Portsmouth, De La Warr Pavilion in Image courtesy artist. the Louise Povey selected graduates from Oxford Bexhill-on-Sea, MK Gallery in Milton Brookes University, University of Keynes, Modern Art Oxford and Reading and The Ruskin School of Art, Turner Contemporary in Margate. University of Oxford. The initiative supports emerging artistic talent to Each artist will host an event relating further their practice, and awards one to their exhibition: outstanding artist a £2,500 bursary and mentoring from a professional artist. Louise Povey, Performance and Talk, , 2018. 9 September, 2–3pm Louise Povey, Vanishing Point, University of Reading, 5 – 16 September Annie Le Santo In Conversation with Tiffany Black, 23 September, 3–4pm Annie Le Santo, Lying in Wait, Oxford Brookes University, Luke Dawes, Artist Talk, 6 October, 19 – 30 September 2–3pm Luke Dawes, Self Assembly, The For more information or to book Ruskin School of Art, University your free ticket to these events, #platform2018 Excavate (with a finetooth comb) of Oxford, 3 – 14 October please visit our website. , "Platform has allowed me to maintain my Image courtesy artist. the Luke Dawes creative momentum post-graduation and is giving me the confidence to be an artist outside of university." – Annie Le Santo EXPLORE AT WWW.MODERNARTOXFORD.ORG.UK BOOK EVENTS ONLINE OR CALL US +44 (0) 1865 722 733 EXHIBITION Shadowlight Artists: Rising , 2018. 19 October – 11 November 2018 Free entry, all welcome Preview Party: Friday 19 October, 6–7pm at Old Fire Station, 7–9pm at Modern Art Oxford Collecting of Memories In this exhibition across two venues, with collecting images; while a new Modern Art Oxford and Arts at the installation by Richard Hunt moves , still from Old Fire Station, the Shadowlight his painting practice into the realms Artists showcase work spanning of multimedia installation. A new installation, painting, digital media animation by Tom Breach merges and theatrical production. Film Oxford autobiographical experience with produced the latest works by the fantasy; and Lucy Skuce’s video Image copyright the artist and Film Oxford. group, working in collaboration with installation blends her fascination Hemswork Mark them over the last 18 months. The with construction and the domestic exhibition celebrates the group’s environment. Danny Smith’s new creative growth since their formation film merges his interest in ancestral in 2009 with an artistically ambitious memory and the cultures of prehistory. body of work which re-frames disability arts. As part of the latest work by the group, Shadowlight artist Russell Highsmith's , 2018. Rising features major new works by play Singles Night will be on at Arts the core members alongside two new at the Old Fire Station on 19 and 20 films produced by the Shadowlight September. Book your tickets Associates. Mark Hemsworth’s at oldfirestation.org.uk. large-scale prints reflect his obsession Time Leave to "I’m happy being a Shadowlight Artist. I’ve always been interested in art. Shadowlights means more independence , production still from for the artists. It made me feel a bit more confident in myself, it made me feel special." – Danny Smith Danny Smith Danny Image copyright the artist and Film Oxford. EXPLORE AT WWW.MODERNARTOXFORD.ORG.UK BOOK EVENTS ONLINE OR CALL US +44 (0) 1865 722 733 FILM TALKS Future Knowledge: Imagining Future Knowledge artists’ panel discussion Thursday 4 October, 6.30–8pm Friday 21 September, 5–6pm What insights can the arts offer Celebrating the opening of Future in understanding climate change Knowledge, this panel discussion and future posibilities? Join , 2016. explores what role arts and culture unconventional thinkers for a can play to change perspectives dynamic discussion on art's impact and bring climate change awareness and potential in the unfolding to a wider audience. environmental crisis. Speakers include Oxford’s globally celebrated Join artists Tania Kovats, Eline social philosopher Roman Krznaric; Going Nowhere 1.5 McGeorge and Rachel Sussman Alison Tickell, the pioneering CEO as they introduce their works in of arts environmental organisation the exhibition as well as their wider Julie’s Bicycle; and Emma Ridgway artistic practices. Head of Programme, Chief Curator Tickets £5, £3 concession at Modern Art Oxford. Bursaries available, for details contact [email protected] Simon Faithfull, Faithfull, Simon Image courtesy artist the Galerie of and Polaris, Paris. Tickets £5, £3 concession Artists’ Films: Simon Faithfull, Going Nowhere series Screening Thursday 13 – Sunday 16 September and Thursday 20 – Friday 21 September Going Nowhere is a trilogy of films A special screening of Going produced by artist Simon Faithfull that Nowhere 2, accompanied by a music span a 20-year period. The film series playlist selected by Faithfull, will be centres on the act of walking to on view in Modern Art Oxford’s cafe explore our personal engagement during the preview party for Future with the environment, the trace we Knowledge (Friday 21 September, leave on the landscape, and how we 6.30–9pm). The playlist is available panel discussion, 2018. can understand and appreciate the to listen to via Modern Art Oxford’s Search Modern Art Oxford on Spotify listen to the to playlist dynamics of our rapidly changing world. Spotify profile. A Slice through the World Image by Stu Allsopp. EXPLORE AT WWW.MODERNARTOXFORD.ORG.UK BOOK EVENTS ONLINE OR CALL US +44 (0) 1865 722 733 WORKSHOPS PERFORMANCE Throughout Future Knowledge to help participants follow their all workshops will take place curiosity and be playful. in the galleries. Inspired by Future Knowledge these Biomimicry Workshop sessions will explore life cycles Sunday 14 October, 2.30–4.30pm of materials and take place in the Learn from Michael Pawlyn, one Piper Gallery.