What does ‘home’ mean to you? – Hamideh Rimaz, Adapt Transform co-curator This is Adapt Transform Stories, a thematic series exploring community responses to urban design and creativity. Part of the current Adapt Transform exhibition in partnership with Oxford Brookes University, this week we’re exploring Personal experiences of urban spaces, told through works in the… Continue reading Adapt Transform Stories | Personal
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Adapt Transform Stories
David Gasca
David Gasca is an environmental scientist and artist. He uses a range of different media from photography, video, mapping, sculpture, printing and painting to investigate the relationships between people, environment and place. By often favouring a birds eye perspective, his investigations changes and patterns in the urban and rural landscape. For the Oxford Map of Trees, he is using laser altimetry data for the city to provide a classic map view of the current urban treescape in Oxford. By considering where trees are now, what patterns exist and how different features are linked we can identify where and how we need to act to expand the network of trees across the city.
This is Adapt Transform Stories, a thematic series exploring community responses to urban design and creativity. Presented alongside our current exhibition Adapt Transform, each week discover a different story told through the exhibition, from deeply personal experiences of home and the city, to the environmental projects transforming our spaces in the face of climate change.… Continue reading Adapt Transform Stories
Sonia Boyce opens in Venice, curated by Modern Art Oxford Chief Curator
Spring 2022 marks the launch of the prestigious La Biennale di Venezia, the 59th International Art Exhibition in Venice, opening to the public on 23 April. We are delighted that Modern Art Oxford’s Chief Curator, Emma Ridgway has curated the Biennale’s British Pavilion this year with a new exhibition by artist Sonia Boyce. Presented by… Continue reading Sonia Boyce opens in Venice, curated by Modern Art Oxford Chief Curator
Twine for Beginners: How to create an interactive story online
Get a beginner’s introduction to Twine, a free interactive storytelling tool.
branch: read, play and watch
Discover more about the ideas and inspiration behind branch, a digital artwork inviting wide-ranging creative responses about the future.
Young Creatives inspire positive change and creativity for 2022
“Building a vision of what we would, and could do.” Modern Art Oxford Young Creative 2021 We all know that creativity can make such a positive difference to our wellbeing. It’s a subject we regularly return to in our programmes and online conversations, and this January is absolutely no exception. So this Blue Monday, we’re… Continue reading Young Creatives inspire positive change and creativity for 2022
branch: come and play with what’s possible
From February 2022 take part in branch, a living, expanding, branching artwork that explores the many varying possibilities for what’s to come. Experiment with alternatives, futures and what could be: for us, for others, for the planet. Fusing game design, interactive storytelling, speculative fiction and citizen science, branch won’t be one thing: it will hold… Continue reading branch: come and play with what’s possible
Watch: Anish Kapoor short documentary
Hear from renowned artist Anish Kapoor in this three minute documentary. Created with the artist alongside his major exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, in this reflective film Kapoor invites us to ‘find our deep self?’ through his iconic painted artworks.