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In this online exhibition tour, discover Mariana Castillo Deball’s story-filled exhibition for Modern Art Oxford, through the artist’s own words. This special tour was recorded in October 2020 to celebrate the opening of Deball’s exhibition, Between making and knowing something and also features our Curator of Exhibitions and Projects, Amy Budd.

This special video offers us a curatorial behind-the-scenes, as artist Mariana Castillo Deball takes Modern Art Oxford curator Amy Budd around her art studio in Berlin. In their chat, Deball explains the process of, and inspiration behind, creating the ceramic works featured in her exhibition, Between making and knowing something. These ceramics for Modern Art… Continue reading Behind-the-scenes: Mariana Castillo Deball’s studio

As a Senegalese woman who has never resided in her home country, artist Khadija Cecile Niang’s work explores her feeling of being disjointed from her culture. In recent work, currently on display in her exhibition It’s Not Just Hair, what began as a way for Khadija to reflect on her own personal relationship with her… Continue reading Black Hair and Belonging – It’s Not Just Hair: Reflections by Khadija Cecile Niang

Are you a young artist or architect in the making? Design your own gallery with this interactive activity pack. By making your own architectural model of the gallery, explore the architecture of the Modern Art Oxford, see what local materials have been used in the building’s design, and discover how the individual spaces have changed… Continue reading Made with MAO – discover and design the gallery space

Artist Kate Hipkiss creates intricate sculptures using found materials such as old maps and books. One of 18 Oxfordshire-based creatives featured in our exhibition Flow, Kate’s paper works inspire everyday creativity in us all. Here, she speaks to Co-Curator Maria Robertson about her intriguing practice.  “I make things in order to think ideas through”. Maria: How… Continue reading “I can lose hours once I begin” – Kate Hipkiss and flow

Designer and visual artist Mariana Acevedo is one of 18 artists featured in Flow, an interdisciplinary online exhibition exploring ideas and creativity. In this short interview she chats to Co-Curator Maria Robertson about making and teaching art, working intuitively and getting into the flow. – Maria: How do you get into creative flow? Mariana: Many years practising… Continue reading ‘Connecting hand and tool’ – Mariana Acevedo and creative flow

“Like science, the creation of art often transforms into a pursuit of perfection. It’s a consuming, burning drive to produce something that builds upon what has come before it.” – Jake Flowerdew, Particle Physicist Experience the mind-expanding online exhibition, Flow, wherever you are. Click on the virtual tour below to discover the story of nine Co-Curators… Continue reading Virtual Exhibition: Flow

Celebrating a range of work by people across Oxfordshire, Flow is an interdisciplinary online exhibition exploring ideas and creativity. The works in the exhibition reflect individual experiences of being in creative ‘flow’.  In this piece for our blog, one of the featured artists Mark Clay tells us about his work. Suddenly finding himself in lockdown far away… Continue reading The flow of the lines by Flow artist Mark Clay

How do you learn how to curate an exhibition when in lockdown? In this new video series follow the stories of nine curators tasked with organising Modern Art Oxford’s new online exhibition, Flow. First up, we hear from Project Lead, Laura Purseglove. Opening 4 September 2020, Flow is an online exhibition in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University,

This is a creative breath response by Caroline Areskog Jones. Tell your own breath story by taking part in Breathworks, a digital project by Lucy Sabin. drawing as breath the body as archive activated neurological pathways intersect with physical memory of action and through repetition becoming embedded, absorbed, collated into our unique physical history slowly… Continue reading Drawing breath