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Across the Isolation Music Diaries series, Oxford-based musician and promoter of Modern Art Oxford’s live Yard sessions, Martin Andrews aka Octavia Freud has been talking to local musicians about their experiences of lockdown and the ways in which they are staying creative. In this blog post, Martin reflects on his own experience as a musician… Continue reading MAO Assembly – Martin Andrews aka Octavia Freud on Staying Creative in Lockdown

n early June 2020 Activating our Archives participant Thomas Nicolaou took over Modern Art Oxford’s Instagram feed with his own archive of photos of Oxford in the 1990s. Here we share his project using archival images to spark community dialogues. Scroll down to find out how you can get involved with Thomas’s ongoing project and… Continue reading Activating our Archives: 90s Oxford by Thomas Nicolaou

Discover how to make your own stop motion animations at home! In this fun and easy how-to video, our City as Studio lead artist Kate Mahoney takes you through the process of making a stop motion animation on your mobile phone. Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are photographed in slightly differing… Continue reading City as Studio: How to make your own Stop-Motion Video

Modern Art Oxford’s Creative Associate (Digital) Lucy Sabin is currently leading on an art-research project with Modern Art Oxford called Breathworks. The project invites you to explore conscious and creative approaches to breathing via sound, image and storytelling.  In this blog post Lucy presents her research and reflections on the experience of breathing as a creative… Continue reading Breathworks – Breathing and Creativity by Lucy Sabin

For our seventh post in the #MAOarchive series we take you back to 1994 when Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee’s larger than life fibre sculptures towered over visitors to the gallery. After studying figurative painting, Mukherjee quickly turned to sculpture. She had been inspired by the teaching of artist K.G. Subramanyan who championed Indian craft traditions,… Continue reading From the MAO archive: Mrinalini Mukherjee in 1994

Modern Art Oxford and Oxford Brookes University invites people based in Oxfordshire to submit their creative response to Flow at the Glass Tank, a new interdisciplinary exhibition exploring ideas and creativity. The exhibition will explore and celebrate the many different ways we experience the creative process, from getting ‘in the flow’, the spark of a new idea… Continue reading Take part – Flow at the Glass Tank

Make Play is Modern Art Oxford’s early years programme for 0-5 year olds and their grownups to play and discover together. Make Play at Home invites you to keep making and playing alongside each other at home. Our Make Play at Home activities are easy to do and can be made at home using only… Continue reading Make Play at Home #3: Rice Snakes

Our sixth post in the #MAOarchive series looks back to 1989 when Helen Chadwick’s Viral Landscapes filled the gallery. The show consisted of a panoramic frieze, measuring four feet in height and 50 feet in length, of new photographic works by Chadwick.  Chadwick layered photographs of the Pembrokeshire coast with enlarged microscopic patterns made from the cells… Continue reading From the MAO archive: Helen Chadwick’s Viral Landscapes in 1989

We are so happy that we remain connected to our wonderful exhibiting artist Johanna Unzueta, even in lockdown and currently separated by the Atlantic Ocean. From her home studio in Brooklyn, New York, Johanna has created these short videos giving personal insights into her exhibition at the gallery – and now online – Tools for… Continue reading From Brooklyn: Johanna Unzueta’s Art Diary

In the second of his two-part series for MAO Assembly, Oxford-based musician and promoter of Modern Art Oxford’s live Yard sessions, Martin Andrews aka Octavia Freud talks to local musicians Tiger Mendoza, Means of Production, Call.Me.Tiece and Limpet Space Race about their experiences during lockdown and finds out how they are being creative. Following the… Continue reading MAO Assembly – Isolation Music Diaries, Part Two