Category: Platform Graduate Award

How to make a giant pink teddy, with artist Liz Davies

Liz Davies is one of three Platform Graduate Award artists showing their work at Modern Art Oxford this year, and a recent fine art graduate from The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. In this post she shares the process of making one of her artworks: the giant inflatable pink teddy in her exhibition… Continue reading How to make a giant pink teddy, with artist Liz Davies

Molasses | Kyra-Sky Foster

Kyra-Sky Foster, Black Hole as Metaphor, 2022. Image courtesy the artist.

Kyra-Sky Foster is one of three Platform Graduate Award artists showing their work at Modern Art Oxford this year. Through her work, she investigates the connections between the astronomical phenomenon of the black hole, and the black experience. The barrel filled with molasses described in the video below is part of an installation in her… Continue reading Molasses | Kyra-Sky Foster

Why a barrel? Kyra-Sky Foster on her exhibition Black Hole as Metaphor

Kyra-Sky Foster, Black Hole as Metaphor, 2022. Image courtesy the artist.

Kyra-Sky Foster is one of three Platform Graduate Award artists showing their work at Modern Art Oxford this year. Her exhibition Black Hole as Metaphor, currently on display in our Creative Space, features a barrel as part of the installation. In this post, Foster explores the barrel as physical object, and the barrel as metaphor.… Continue reading Why a barrel? Kyra-Sky Foster on her exhibition Black Hole as Metaphor

Watch – Platform Graduate Award: Starting out as an artist in 2021

What’s it like to be an early career artist in such turbulent times? In this video, watch a recording of our Platform Graduate Award artists speaking honestly and positively about graduating from art school and their plans for the future. The event which took place on Thursday 28 October 2021 featured Fetine Sel Tuzel, Bevan… Continue reading Watch – Platform Graduate Award: Starting out as an artist in 2021

Horoscope by Beth Simcock

Platform Graduate Award artist Beth Simcock is a painter and writer working across large-scale narrative paintings. Her practice is devoted to mythologies, both self-created and borrowed: from classics, art history, contemporary popular culture, and the online world. For her exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, Simcock presents a series of large-scale paintings entitled The Zodiac.  The following Horoscope, written… Continue reading Horoscope by Beth Simcock

On the Value of AI-Generated Art

Platform Graduate Award artists Bevan Hill & Will Griffiths create artworks generated entirely by AI technology. Their exhibition Real Art for Real People brings together painting, sculpture and written work, conceptualised and designed by computers. By removing themselves from the ‘creative process’ they explore the importance of individual expression and agency in an increasingly automated world. This… Continue reading On the Value of AI-Generated Art

Authorship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Art of Disappearance

Platform Graduate Award artists Bevan Hill & Will Griffiths create artworks generated entirely by AI technology. Their exhibition Real Art for Real People brings together painting, sculpture and written work, conceptualised and designed by computers. By removing themselves from the ‘creative process’ they explore the importance of individual expression and agency in an increasingly automated… Continue reading Authorship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Art of Disappearance