Share your memories of Modern Art Oxford from 1973-2023.
Since the 1970s, we’ve been running creative workshops, projects and events with local communities at the gallery. Did you take part in any?
Author: Cecilia.rosser@modernartoxford.org.uk
How to make a giant pink teddy, with artist Liz Davies
Liz Davies is one of three Platform Graduate Award artists showing their work at Modern Art Oxford this year, and a recent fine art graduate from The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. In this post she shares the process of making one of her artworks: the giant inflatable pink teddy in her exhibition… Continue reading How to make a giant pink teddy, with artist Liz Davies
Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals
“Inside the gallery, you are invited into a rare experience, to be silent and to stay in one place.” – Marina Abramović Pioneering performance artist Marina Abramović presents Gates and Portals, a new site-specific performance-based exhibition. Visitors are invited into the experience as performers, guided through the space by trained facilitators to explore transitional states… Continue reading Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals
Molasses | Kyra-Sky Foster
Kyra-Sky Foster is one of three Platform Graduate Award artists showing their work at Modern Art Oxford this year. Through her work, she investigates the connections between the astronomical phenomenon of the black hole, and the black experience. The barrel filled with molasses described in the video below is part of an installation in her… Continue reading Molasses | Kyra-Sky Foster
Why a barrel? Kyra-Sky Foster on her exhibition Black Hole as Metaphor
Kyra-Sky Foster is one of three Platform Graduate Award artists showing their work at Modern Art Oxford this year. Her exhibition Black Hole as Metaphor, currently on display in our Creative Space, features a barrel as part of the installation. In this post, Foster explores the barrel as physical object, and the barrel as metaphor.… Continue reading Why a barrel? Kyra-Sky Foster on her exhibition Black Hole as Metaphor
Women of Black Mountain College | Anni Albers
Anni Albers (1899-1994) led the weaving and textiles workshop at Black Mountain College from 1933-1949. She and her husband Josef were invited to the college in 1933 after the closure of the Bauhaus, where Josef was a professor and Anni a student, by the Nazis. Well into the 1940s, Black Mountain provided a welcoming refuge… Continue reading Women of Black Mountain College | Anni Albers
Review by young artist May | Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe
Simplicity forms the most powerful meanings – Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe at Modern Art Oxford Read a review of our exhibition Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe written by young artist May, who took part in this year’s City as Studio film-making residency for ages 16-19. Words by May Ruth Asawa created beautifully… Continue reading Review by young artist May | Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe
Women of Black Mountain College | Mary Parks Washington
“I didn’t think it would affect me, but it has. That’s what makes it Black Mountain. It’s still living.” – Mary Parks Washington Mary Parks Washington (1924-2019) attended Black Mountain College’s 1946 summer institute, where she met with Ruth Asawa and Gwendolyn Knight, among others. whom she remained friends with. She arrived from the very… Continue reading Women of Black Mountain College | Mary Parks Washington
Women of Black Mountain College | Karen Karnes and MC Richards
“Are you gonna be an earthy person, practical, bound to earth, or are you going to be a dreamer, a visionary? I don’t have to choose. I am both, and I live in the crossing point.” – MC Richards The words of poet and potter MC Richards (1916-1999) go to the heart of the ethos… Continue reading Women of Black Mountain College | Karen Karnes and MC Richards
Women of Black Mountain College | Vera Williams
“You could just put your imagination into practice.” – Vera Baker Williams Vera Williams (1927- 2015) was one of few to formally graduate from Black Mountain College, with a graphic design project creating signage for the college. Author, illustrator, activist and educator, her life was endlessly creative. From the 1970s she produced children’s books, often… Continue reading Women of Black Mountain College | Vera Williams