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Our colourful Common Threads space has invited visitors to creatively respond to the life and work of tapestry artist, Hannah Ryggen. Open until Sunday 21 January 2018, drop into the Common Threads space in its final weekend for creative workshops and help weave a tapestry designed by children and volunteers from the charity Children Heard… Continue reading Common Threads – Timelapse

rom the essential Hannah Ryggen monograph to inspiring weaving how-to guides, we’ve created this diverse reading list inspired by our exhibition, Hannah Ryggen: Woven Histories. A selection of these titles will be available to purchase in the Modern Art Oxford Shop or, alternatively, drop into Common Threads in the project space where they will be on… Continue reading Hannah Ryggen: Woven Histories – A Reading List

Join art historian Marit Paasche to discuss the life and work of artist Hannah Ryggen, whose work is on display at Modern Art Oxford until 18 February 2018.

Roundtable discussion of the life and works of Rose Finn-Kelcey with Peter Liversidge, Mia Taylor, Jo Stockham, Hermione Wiltshire and Catherine Elwes.

Making Space Safe offers refugees and asylum seekers in Oxfordshire a supportive community of fellow clients and artists and an opportunity to learn new art skills and give space for creative expression. The group meets weekly in a private space at Modern Art Oxford. Since the project started as an open group meeting at Asylum… Continue reading Making Space Safe Workshop

Freddie Davies is a recent graduate of Oxford Brookes University. He is exhibiting his work at Modern Art Oxford from 30 August – 17 September as part of the Platform Graduate Award 2017. Below he talks about his work and the inspiration behind it. Developing artwork is a means to sink into the ideals I most… Continue reading Platform 2017: Freddie Davies – Gorm’s Grove

By Yasmin Sidhwa, Artistic Director, Mandala Theatre Company A few months has passed and we have had a chance to reflect on Mandala Theatre Company’s Residency at Modern Art Oxford. We ran a 7-week course using the gallery’s exhibition of work by artist Lubaina Himid: Invisible Strategies as a stimulus for creating monologues in response to… Continue reading Reflections on Mandala Theatre Company Residency at Modern Art Oxford

Matthew Stuttard, one of the research contributors to Aleksandra Mir’s Space Tapestry (on display at Modern Art Oxford 24 June – 12 November, 2017), discusses the current and future uses of Space on Earth, highlighting aspects of beauty arising from Space phenomena and technologies.  This talk took place on 29 June 2017.

Nathan Caldecott from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford is exhibiting his work at Modern Art Oxford as part of the Platform Graduate Award 2017. Below he talks about his work and the inspiration behind it. My practice as an artist has a focus on digital models, and the statehood they… Continue reading Nathan Caldecott: Render Stations