{"id":53185,"date":"2018-01-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T09:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-website.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/events\/making-space-safe-2\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T09:26:08","slug":"making-space-safe-2","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/events\/making-space-safe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Space Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Making Space Safe\u00a0workshops are led by associate artist Mary Chamberlain with asylum seekers and refugees in Oxford.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">These sessions teach artistic skills and create a sense of social cohesion for the group\u00a0that includes people from around the world, referred by local organisations<a href=\"http:\/\/sanctuaryhosting.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0Sanctuary Hosting<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugeeresource.org.uk\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Refugee Resource<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Making Space Safe\u00a0meets regularly in a private space at Modern Art Oxford and sessions are led by Mary Chamberlain.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Chamberlain has worked for many years as a\u00a0creative practitioner specialising in working with drawing and painting with vulnerable groups and individuals\u00a0using some of the therapeutic principles gained during her training.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29505\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29505 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Making-Space-Safe-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2201\" height=\"2063\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2201px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2201\/2063;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork by Feng Gu, 2019. Image courtesy the artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>A creative response to the 2020 lockdown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The period of the coronavirus lockdown was the first time the group had not met\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">in person since the project began back in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">In response to these unprecedented challenges, Chamberlain regularly posted art materials to participants to enable them to continue with their art making.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">During <a href=\"https:\/\/refugeeweek.org.uk\/\">Refugee Week UK<\/a> in June 2020, Modern Art Oxford celebrated its\u00a0ongoing partnership with Refugee Resource and Sanctuary Hosting and\u00a0the achievements of the Making Space Safe artists in the face of adversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">As well as sharing the group\u2019s art\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mao-old.focus-earth.co.uk\/refugee-week-celebration-creativity-resilience\/\">works and words<\/a>, sessions were ran to explore the brief of \u2018Imagine Oxford\u2026\u2019 Run in partnership with Refugee Resource\u2019s Women\u2019s Group to coincide with Refugee Week, the brief was discussed by the group privately online together, resulting in a series of art works responding to lockdown and focussing on the group\u2019s interest in drawing nature.<\/p>\n<h4>\u201cBefore this I had never drawn. I helped my children with colouring, but never drew. I would have liked to do more, in other life circumstances. I really liked the program as it helps you think and focus your mind on other things.\u201d \u2013 Making Space Safe artist<\/h4>\n<figure id=\"align\" aria-describedby=\"caption-align\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-39100 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Credit-Anon-e1592214455469.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"924\" height=\"1244\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 924px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 924\/1244;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-align\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork by Making Space Safe artist. Image courtesy the artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>\u201cGuests have time and again expressed their enjoyment of the project to me. Now, every person we help with hosting is told about the project and many get involved and love it.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Sarah Wahby, Service Manager at Sanctuary Hosting.<\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39110\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39110 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Credit-Zainab-Hussein.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"851\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1280px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1280\/851;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork by Zainab Hussein, 2020. 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