OXFORD 2015

9 June - 19 June 2005

PRESS RELEASE

April 2005



OXFORD 2015

9 June to 19 June 2005

Oxford 2015 involves ten days of exhibitions, talks, workshops, and events, held at Modern Art Oxford, exploring what Oxford could be like ten years from now. This is the first time an arts programme has tackled such an ambitious question in Oxford.



At a key moment of actual and potential change in the city’s development, Oxford 2015 offers a space for discussion and debate. It provides an opportunity to showcase the imaginative and creative ideas of the city’s artists and architects, school pupils and community groups, about the changing landscape of Oxford, and where its future lies.



Highlights of the programme include:

- A display of the most imaginative ideas submitted by members of the public for the future of their city.

- The results of a schools’ art competition, judged by the award-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon.

- A chance for the public to see the developers’ real plans for the city brought together in the same place for the first time.



Oxford 2015 starts with a one-day international conference held at Oxford Brookes University, on the subject of public spaces. At Modern Art Oxford, throughout the ten-day programme, keynote speakers that include local councillors will go head to head in a series of lunchtime and evening talks. Discussion topics will include ’Can Oxford be a sustainable city?’ and ’What are the ingredients of European cities of culture?’



Oxford 2015 is part of Modern Art Oxford’s 40th anniversary celebrations, and forms a highlight of the Evolving City programme. Evolving City is a year-long programme co-ordinated by Oxford Inspires, that explores the city’s vibrant cultural scene through a series of performances, festivals and events. Partners in the Oxford 2015 project include Artpoint, Fusion, Oxford Visual Arts Development Agency, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford City Council and The Oxford Times.



Oxford 2015 is supported by the Westgate Partnership.



For press enquiries, please contact Meera Hindocha on 01865 813813 or email: meera.hindocha@modernartoxford.org.uk

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For further press information and images please contact Sara Dewsbery on 01865 813813.


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Tom Lubbock, The Independent

Mircea Cantor/Ansel Adams/Katie Paterson
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Jo Halstead, The Oxford Mail

Mircea Cantor
‘Cantor has a gift for bringing metaphor to life...these overlapping elements – magic carpet, gilded cage, miraculous tree – seem rooted in eastern European fairy tales but separately return you to modern reality.’
Laura Cumming, The Observer

Ansel Adams
‘Widely recognised as the greatest landscape photographer of his century.’
Benjamin Secher, Daily Telegraph

Katie Paterson
‘In an inspired pairing, Paterson shares the exhibition space with the American landscape photographer Ansel Adams…Paterson using modern technology to find the poetry in landscape that Adams captured through his camera lens.’
Tim Cooper, The Sunday Times

Trisha Donnelly
'In a world in which aesthetic comprehension so often relies on comparison and cross-reference Donnelly regularly achieves the rare feat of creating images that simply look like nothing we have ever seen before.'
Jonathan Griffin, Frieze

Stella Vine: paintings
‘Diana and her demons, Kate and cocaine, Jose Mourinho and his dog. Is any subject too raw for this notorious artist?’
Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times

‘Every brushstroke threatens disintegration.’
Extract from the catalogue foreword, Mirror, Mirror by Professor Germaine Greer

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Laura Cumming, The Observer

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Robert Clark, The Guardian

Callum Innes: From Memory
'Serenely beautiful paintings by one of of the most accomplished artists working in Britain today.'
Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph-Review

'The huge canvases of Callum Innes are so intense, you soon find yourself in a state of meditation.'
Rachel Cooke, The Observer-Review

Daniel Buren: Intervention II, works in situ
‘Daniel Buren's triumphant return to Britain.'
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Arrivals
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Laura Cumming, The Observer: The Year in the Arts 2006

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