Explore the creative journeys of our four Platform Graduate artists. They provide a deeper look into the inspirations, processes, and themes that shape their work.
Category: Platform Graduate Award
Reading and Viewing List for Tender Grounds
Discover the Platform Artists’ reading and viewing lists curated to accompany their group exhibition Tender Grounds.
Sarah Catterall: A Letter to the Viewer
Get to know Platform Graduate Artist, Sarah Catterall, through a letter they have written to the viewers of their exhibition.
Interview with Helen Kohl
Get to know Helen Kohl as she introduces us to the themes and inspirations behind her sculptural installations.
Platform 2023 – Reading and viewing lists
Find out what inspired our Platform 2023 Artists.
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
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
Watch – Platform Graduate Award: Starting out as an artist in 2021
What’s it like to be an early career artist in such turbulent times? In this video, watch a recording of our Platform Graduate Award artists speaking honestly and positively about graduating from art school and their plans for the future. The event which took place on Thursday 28 October 2021 featured Fetine Sel Tuzel, Bevan… Continue reading Watch – Platform Graduate Award: Starting out as an artist in 2021
Horoscope by Beth Simcock
Platform Graduate Award artist Beth Simcock is a painter and writer working across large-scale narrative paintings. Her practice is devoted to mythologies, both self-created and borrowed: from classics, art history, contemporary popular culture, and the online world. For her exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, Simcock presents a series of large-scale paintings entitled The Zodiac. The following Horoscope, written… Continue reading Horoscope by Beth Simcock