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Since 1966, Modern Art Oxford has hosted avant-garde artists, performances and art forms. In this third post in our #MAOarchive series we look back to a pioneering show in 1990. At a time when video art remained marginalised in the art world, Signs of the Times was the first major exhibition of British sculpture and… Continue reading From the MAO archive: Signs of the Times in 1990

Take five minutes out of your working day to breathe, listen and find a moment of calm. Yoga teacher and artist Najia Bagi leads you through a 5 minute meditation that you can do wherever you are, without changing out of your work clothes. Najia encourages you to hit pause for just a few minutes… Continue reading Take a Break and Listen – 5 Minute Meditation with Najia Bagi

Read Laura Purseglove’s introduction to the concept of Flow state and its relation to the upcoming exhibition Flow at the Glass Tank. Laura is our Creative Associate (Participation) and is working with Modern Art Oxford’s volunteers as they develop this exhibition. Our creative process is unique to us. We all have our own ways of… Continue reading Flow and Human Flourishing by Creative Associate Laura Purseglove

For the second blog in our #MAOarchive series we take you back to 1966, the year the gallery opened. Space Place: Constructed Space Participation was to be the gallery’s first self-generated exhibition. In the words of art critic Andrew Forge, it declared the director’s intention to make the museum “a place where things can happen… music… Continue reading From the MAO archive: Space Place in 1966

The team at Modern Art Oxford are constantly grateful for the fascinating exchanges we have online with creative individuals. One of these creatives is Buckinghamshire-based artist Saskia Saunders. We first met Saunders on Instagram through our digital project, MAO Assembly just a week or so before the COVID-19 virus truly affected our lives in the… Continue reading MAO Assembly: How to create your own positive affirmation

“I found June – I saw that little girl with her parents – and I thought “I know that feeling”.” When artist and photographer Tony Lorenzo bought 5 random old photographs from a flea market in London he could not have expected the result. Realising that 2 of the 5 photographs were pictures of the… Continue reading Finding June: A Photographer’s Remarkable Discovery

This is the first blog post in our #MAOarchive series. Discover past exhibitions, artists, events and stories from the gallery archive as we delve into our collection of photographs, programmes, correspondence and memories from Modern Art Oxford’s history since its opening in 1966. First up is renowned British sculptor and land artist Richard Long, who… Continue reading From the MAO archive: Richard Long’s Land Art

Slow down the pace and find calm with a short mindful breath meditation led by the wonderful Najia Bagi. Yoga teacher and artist Najia leads a 5 minute calming breath meditation to help you find space within, take notice and be with your breath. Follow Najia on Instagram and Facebook

In the second gallery of Johanna Unzueta’s exhibition Tools for Life at Modern Art Oxford are a collection of simple handmade garments, reminiscent of factory worker uniforms. Unzueta sourced the fabric for these clothes from a factory in Guatemala that up-cycles old jeans. The garments were tailored to fit Modern Art Oxford staff, who wore them on… Continue reading What’s it like to wear an artwork? Dom Rowland on wearing Johanna Unzueta’s A Garment for the Day

MAO Assembly is a way for you to direct our online conversations into areas that mean the most to you. For this latest piece, Oxford University DPhil candidate in English, Kitty Gurnos-Davies responds to what she describes as the ‘elusive and complex’ subject of artistic labour, traversing William Morris’ early arts and crafts movement, Judy Chicago’s… Continue reading MAO Assembly – Art and Labour