Boundary Encounters

Valerie Asiimwe Amani is a Tanzanian interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her practice interrogates the ways in which body erotics, language, place and perceived reality are used to situate (or isolate) the self within community.

Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture.

Julie Freeman translates complex processes and data from natural sources into kinetic sculptures, physical objects, images, sound compositions, animations, VR & AR,  questioning the use of data and digital technology in how we translate nature – whether it is through a swarm of butterflies responding to air pollution levels; a lake of fish composing sounds; or enabling a colony of naked mole-rats to generate animation.

Deborah Pill is a sculptor, painter and photographer working in Oxford, UK. Her work explores aspects of place, memory and association held in objects and gesture. Her work that is largely self-reflective and emotive, draws on her life experience and female identity. Her work is both experimental and exploratory and allows for direct communication between the artist and her chosen materials.

Throughout the summer as part of Boundary Encounters, Modern Art Oxford is joined by five Creatives in Residence, who will share insights into their own professional practice, while developing new ideas for Modern Art Oxford’s future programme with local communities. 

Jane Castree is a choreographer and community dance artist working with movement to create open and accessible opportunities for performers, community members, and collaborators that acknowledge and interrupt invisible structures of hierarchy existing within cultures. Her choreographic work invites people to consider ideas and concepts from alternative perspectives as a way to imagine and create a more open and flexible world. 

Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones is a Danish composer, songwriter, performer, and sound artist living in Oxford. Her practice is rooted in collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to sound making. She composes, creates audio pieces, writes, and performs indie-folk music as Asthmatic Harp.

Anya Gleizer is a performance artist and an environmental geography researcher who uses community engagement, the arts and sciences to forge new approaches towards a culturally and ecologically resilient future. Anya is the founder of Flute & Bowl, an organisation that brings together practitioners from STEM fields and the arts to challenge existing narratives and forge new approaches towards a culturally and ecologically resilient future.

Kelly Lloyd is a transdisciplinary artist who focuses on issues of representation and knowledge production and prioritises public-facing collaborative research. In 2022, Lloyd launched This Thing We Call Art, a podcast and online archive featuring excerpts from 50+ interviews with people in the arts she has conducted since 2017.

Harmanpreet Randhawa is an artist based in Oxford and Coventry whose transdisciplinary practice involves making installations and sculptures from found materials, drawing, writing, film, performance, and printmaking. Surrounding the ideas of longing, belonging, and desire, his work oscillates between the sensual, and the domestic, rethinking the boundaries of homely spaces, human body, and nature.

Modern Art Oxford’s history of public programming has long been supported by a commitment to collaboration and participation.The archive display presented in Boundary Encounters includes multiple collaborations, projects and events spanning more than 50 years, many of which have informed the changes in our building over time.