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Posts by Category
Anish Kapoor
City as Studio
- I Watched Her Dream… Aloud & I am trying my best: Two short films by young artist Lauren
- There Is No Planet B: A stop-motion animation by young artist Mia
- Gender Stereotypes and Young People | A short film by young artist Rachael
- The Lost Year and Don’t burn our future | Two short films by young artist James
- Exploring identity in the domestic space: Young artist Matt on film-making as an art medium
- Sounds of lockdown: a short film by young artist Jacob
- End Period Stigma: a stop motion animation by young artist Poppy
- The masks we wear: a short film by young artist Olivia
- Hopeful film-making by young artist Kezia
- DIY film and sound-making: young artist Rhianna shares what she learned during our April film-making residency
- Protest, power and mental health explored through film by young artist Ciara
- ‘Expressing myself creatively through film’: Young artist Abigail reflects on film as a force for change
- Make music with found sounds – How-to Video with Poppy Tibbets
- Identity, isolation and connection: collaborative film-making over Zoom, by young artist Ella
- Film-making in lockdown – Young artist Jude reflects on the City as Studio online residency
Creative Careers
Exhibitions
- National Careers Week: Tips & Advice from the MAO Team
- Enter the virtual exhibition – Making Space Safe: Nature, Journeys
- Horoscope by Beth Simcock
- On the Value of AI-Generated Art
- Authorship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Art of Disappearance
- Bevan Hill & Will Griffiths, Stream of Unconsciousness
- Watch: places and faces by Fetine Sel Tuzel
- Creativity In Action: How language constructs our identities
- Samson Kambalu: Is this détournement or collage?
- World Elephant Day – Meet Samson Kambalu’s Elephant Chiefs
- Watch: Samson Kambalu meets Alayo Akinkugbe of Instagram’s @ablackhistoryofart
- Listen: Audio Described Exhibition Tour – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- 6 things you might not know about Samson Kambalu
- Watch: Online exhibition tour Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Watch: Samson Kambalu in Conversation
- Between Naming and Knowing Someone: Language, Gender, and Colonial History, by Levi C. R. Hord
- The making of Johanna Unzueta: Tools for Life
Film
How Nature Builds
Inspiration
- Black History Month: Student voices
- Black History Month: Student voices
- Black History Month: Student voices
- Trans Happiness is Real: Oxford’s graffiti art
- Trans Rights Are Human Rights: a stop motion animation by young artist Hunter
- Trans Rights Are Human Rights: a stop motion animation by young artist Hunter
- Trans Rights Are Human Rights: a stop motion animation by young artist Hunter
- Trans Rights Are Human Rights: a stop motion animation by young artist Hunter
- Trans Rights Are Human Rights: a stop motion animation by young artist Hunter
- 13 Creative Wellbeing Ideas for All Ages
- Phones: An Open Discussion – a short film by young artist Niamh
- Phones: An Open Discussion – a short film by young artist Niamh
- Archives and Activism – The Haringey Vanguard by Veronica McKenzie
- Archives and Activism – The Haringey Vanguard by Veronica McKenzie
- Archives and Activism – The Haringey Vanguard by Veronica McKenzie
- Celebrating our amazing volunteers this Volunteers Week
- Virtual Exhibition – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Virtual Exhibition – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Virtual Exhibition – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Virtual Exhibition – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Virtual Exhibition – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Virtual Exhibition – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Virtual Exhibition – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Virtual Exhibition – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Virtual Exhibition – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- COVIDAMA (2020): A new film by Andrei Gloria
- COVIDAMA (2020): A new film by Andrei Gloria
Johanna Unzueta
Making Space Safe
Mariana Castillo Deball
News
- Launch of the Oxford Green Arts Charter
- Creative consultancy opportunity for ages 18-25 | Play-testing the Future
- Creative consultancy opportunity for ages 18-25 | Play-testing the Future
- Creative consultancy opportunity for ages 18-25 | Play-testing the Future
- Samson Kambalu wins Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth
- Samson Kamblau’s proposal for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square
- Read our Anti-racism Statement and Action Plan
Online talks
- Watch – Platform Graduate Award: Starting out as an artist in 2021
- Watch – Platform Graduate Award: Starting out as an artist in 2021
- Watch: McKenzie Wark on the Situationist International
- Watch: McKenzie Wark on the Situationist International
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
Platform Graduate Award
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
Resources
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
- Re-visit: Spaces In/between online panel discussion
- Mini Documentary – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Mini Documentary – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Mini Documentary – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
Samson Kambalu
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
Sign Symbol Sound
Virtual Exhibition
Volunteers
Young Artists
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
- Children’s Mental Health Week – List of Resources
Events
- Deck the Halls! Festive bauble decorating workshop
- Activating our Archives 2021: Protest and Play
- Family Tour | Anish Kapoor: Painting
- Kiki Smith: I am a Wanderer
- Johanna Unzueta: Tools for Life
- Online Exhibition: Flow
- Shadowlight Artists: Luminous
- Sign Symbol Sound: An exhibition exploring language and creativity
- Games about the Future: sci-fi and storytelling
- Family Tour | Anish Kapoor: Painting
- Sculptural Film: Basement Film Screening
- Platform Graduate Award 2021
- Exhibition Tour & Late Opening – Anish Kapoor: Painting
- Exhibition Tour & Late Opening – Anish Kapoor: Painting
- The Surrogacy Act
- EMPRES x SONCITIES STUDIO presents: The Art of Noises VI: Stereophonica
- Exhibition Tour & Late Opening – Anish Kapoor: Painting
- Early Years: Make Play | Winter 2021
- Marina Abramović
- Jesse Darling: No Medals No Ribbons
- Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe
- Responsive Space
- Anish Kapoor: Painting
- Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Making Space Safe: Nature, Journeys
- Young Visiting Artists
- How Nature Builds 2020
- How Nature Builds 2018/2019: Continuing Bodies
- Activating our Archives 2020: Community Dialogues
- Activating our Archives 2019: The Script
- City as Studio 2020: Citizens of the Universe
- City as Studio 2018/2019: Moving Image
- City as Studio 2017/2018: Photographs of Oxford by Young Artists
- Mariana Castillo Deball: Between making and knowing something
Teams
- Elise Smith
- Deb Pill
- Milly Mansfield Parker
- Mackenzie Hall
- Manon Franklin- Fraiture
- Madeleine Craig
- Lorraine Lumsden
- Martin Andrews
- Andrei Gloria
- Janel Pascual
- Ione Rail
- Sylwia Adamczyk
- Hannah Healey
- Thank you to our volunteers for all their time, energy and enthusiasm
- Jimi Cullen
- Dominik Czechowski
- Gavin Leuzzi
- Helen Shilton
- Shona Ritchie
- Maryam Eftekhari
- Barbara Jotham
- Deb Martindale
- Ross Lowen
- Michaela Jones
- Mohamed Bushara
- Andrew Charlwood
- Emma Titcombe
- Anya Jung
- Joe Wilson
- Andy Owen
- Scot Blyth
- Holly Broughton
- Sara Lowes
- Jessie Robertson
- Amy Budd
- Emma Ridgway
- Cecilia Rosser
- Andrée Latham
- Clare Stimpson
- Duncan Saunders
- Alice Williams
- Maria Morwood
- Paul Hobson
Studios
- Activating our Archives takeover by Amanda Denny
- Anish Kapoor: Painting – Activity Sheet
- Watch – Platform Graduate Award: Starting out as an artist in 2021
- Activating our Archives takeover by Martín Volman
- Activating our Archives takeover by Seeun Kim
- Watch – Bevan Hill & Will Griffiths: Stream of Unconsciousness
- Watch – places and faces by Fetine Sel Tuzel
- Trans Happiness Is Real: Oxford’s graffiti art
- World Elephant Day: Meet Samson Kambalu’s Elephant Chiefs
- Watch – Samson Kambalu meets Alayo Akinkugbe of Instagram’s @ablackhistoryofart
- Behind-the-scenes: making Samson Kambalu’s elephants
- Listen – audio-described exhibition tour: Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Watch – Samson Kambalu: New Liberia
- Archives and Activism – The Haringey Vanguard
- Watch: McKenzie Wark on the Situationist International
- Watch: Samson Kambalu in Conversation
- Watch: Online Exhibition Tour of Samson Kambalu’s New Liberia
- Volunteers Week: Meet MAO Volunteer Matthew
- Volunteers Week: Meet MAO Volunteer Lillian
- Volunteers Week: Meet MAO Volunteer Ross
- Volunteers Week: Meet MAO Volunteer Andrei
- Volunteers Week: Meet MAO Volunteer Deb
- Protest, power and mental health explored through film by young artist Ciara
- Young artist Abigail reflects on film as a force for change
- How to make music using found sounds
- Identity, isolation and connection: collaborative film-making over Zoom
- The Visitors in Wytham Woods: A film by Lillian Tranborg
- BreatheDecay in Wytham Woods: A film by Lillian Tranborg
- COVIDAMA (2020): A new film by Andrei Gloria
- My Friend the Sea: A creative breath exercise for children
- Unsettling Narratives with Uncomfortable Oxford
- #AskAnArtist – antique museum vitrines in Mariana Castillo Deball’s exhibition
- #AskAnArtist – Mariana Castillo Deball’s textile pieces
- Make Play at Home #2: CD Spinner Drawings
- Curating Flow
- #AskAnArtist – Mariana Castillo Deball’s ceramic pots
- Watch: Starting out as an artist in 2020 – Platform Award 2020
- Loving Light Meditation – Oxford Christmas Light Festival
- Breathing Worlds
- Timelapse: How we created Between Making and Knowing Something
- Exhibition tour with Mariana Castillo Deball
- Behind-the-scenes: Mariana Castillo Deball’s studio
- Virtual Exhibition: Mariana Castillo Deball
- Flow on Film: Imagined objects with Mirren Kessling
- Flow on Film: From building site to art gallery with Sue Chamberlin
- Flow on Film: Nature poems by Claire Leech
- Mariana Castillo Deball – Activty Sheet
- Flow on Film: Sculpting earth with Kashmira Patel
- Flow on Film: Maisy Charlett on storytelling with objects
- Flow on Film: Memories and landscape with Mark Clay
- Flow on Film: Light magic with Julia Mallaby
- Flow on Film: The space within with Saskia Saunders
- Flow on Film: Drawing tension with Simon Mandarino
- Flow on Film: Dreams and filmmaking with Claudia Collett
- Flow on Film: The architecture of home with Hamideh Rimaz
- Flow on Film: Found objects and lockdown with Charlotte Grocutt
- Flow on Film: Creative flow with Ella Shepard and Mirren Kessling
- Flow on Film: Art and physics with Jake Flowerdew
- The story of Flow: Laura Purseglove
- Virtual Exhibition: Flow
- City as Studio: Make your own Stop-Motion Video
- Make Play at Home #3: Rice Snakes
- From Brooklyn: Johanna Unzueta’s Art Diary Part 4
- From Brooklyn: Johanna Unzueta’s Art Diary Part 3
- From Brooklyn: Johanna Unzueta’s Art Diary Part 2
- From Brooklyn: Johanna Unzueta’s Art Diary Part 1
- Make Play at Home #1: Bubble Snakes
- Take a Break and Listen – 5 Minute Meditation with Najia Bagi
- City as Studio showreel premiere
- Finding June: A Photographer’s Remarkable Discovery
- Mindful Breath Meditation with Najia Bagi
- The making of Johanna Unzueta: Tools for Life
- Watch – Johanna Unzueta: Tools for Life
- Johanna Unzueta: Tools for Life – Activity Sheet
- Virtual Exhibition – Johanna Unzueta: Tools for Life
- Building with Nature: How Nature Builds
- Exploring the contemporary side of Oxford with local schools
- Watch – Kiki Smith: I am a Wanderer
- Kiki Smith’s tapestries and Medieval inspiration
- A closer look at Kiki Smith’s Cabinet of Curiosities
- Virtual Exhibition – Kiki Smith: I am a Wanderer
- Timelapse – how we made Kiki Smith: I am a Wanderer
- Kiki Smith: I am a Wanderer – Activity Sheet
- City as Studio: Moving Image Showreel
- ‘Catching’ memories with the local community
- Fragments from a shared archive