In February 2016 we launched the first in a sequence of commissions devising a new form of performance. In Sally O’Reilly’s Live Illuminated Manuscript, choreographed text, live music and performing bodies collude to reconsider experience, knowledge and the fantastical. Read the text O’Reilly has composed to accompany the performance, here.
Month: February 2016
The Director’s Archive: Callum Innes, From Memory, 2007
In February 2007, almost a decade ago, Modern Art Oxford presented From Memory, a major exhibition of paintings by the acclaimed Scottish artist, Callum Innes (b. Edinburgh, 1962). Innes has attracted international admiration since the 1990s and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995 for his large paintings where paint is applied then removed, reapplied… Continue reading The Director’s Archive: Callum Innes, From Memory, 2007
The Archive: Popa at Moma: Pioneers of Part-Art, 1971
Popa at Moma: Pioneers of Part-Art opened and closed in a single evening at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in Oxford in 1971. MOMA was a much younger organisation than either the Tate or the ICA, having opened only in late 1966. Its founder, Oxford architect Trevor Green, intended it to house England’s first modern art collection, but it… Continue reading The Archive: Popa at Moma: Pioneers of Part-Art, 1971