What a year! We’re taking a look back at 2024 and the highlights of our programme. With three spectacular exhibitions, a summer packed full of off-site workshops and performances, and our grand reopening, we’ve loved looking through our favourite photos and memories of the year. Discover the 2024 Round-up below.
Author: aphra.hiscock@modernartoxford.org.uk
Our New Spaces
Discover our new spaces with a ground-floor gallery, studio, newly designed café, archival displays and so much more!
Watch: Sikán Illuminations Short Film
Discover the secrets hidden in plain sight. Curators Corina Matamoros and Sandra García Herrera share their insight into the artistic world and distinctive iconography of Belkis Ayón.
Situated Ecologies: Summer 2024 Round-Up
This summer, we took our creativity to the streets. Across workshops, drop-in sessions, residencies and more, we spent time with the people of Oxford with one important key question: what makes our city special? The answer? It’s right here in the video.
The Silver Shakers
Jane Castree reflects on her work with Bullingdon Community Centre’s Silver Shakers, and how movement can help us to embody art, feeling it with our entire bodies. This piece of writing was commissioned as part of Situated Ecologies, our summer off-site programme.
Common Ground, Commoning Communities by Sam Skinner
Sam Skinner takes us through a brief history of the Enclosure Acts and the radical power of allotments.
The Grass Was Taller Than Me | A Film by Sam Skinner
Discover Sam Skinner’s love letter to Florence Park. As we drift through the streets and green spaces of Florence Park, ‘The Grass Was Taller Than Me’ captures the shared character of these spaces as common sites for all, both human and more-than-human actors.
‘Motherboard’ – a poem by Louisa Rimmer
The ascent into Modern Art Oxford’s Upper Gallery feels a lot like climbing into a spaceship. It’s a humid Saturday in April, and the room at the top of the stairs is high-ceilinged and metal-beamed. I am relieved when I turn at the top and I am met with colour and texture.
Jane Castree at the Bullingdon Community Centre
Jane Castree is a choreographer and community dance artist working with movement to create open and accessible opportunities.
Helen Edwards at Cutteslowe Community Centre
Helen Edwards is an artist, integrative arts psychotherapist, eco-somatic therapist and dancer.