May 10, 2013
This year’s Degree Show, BA cubed, features work by 34 graduating artists who have studied Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University.
Exhibition Opening: Friday 10 May 6-8pm Glass Tank Gallery and Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/visit-us/gipsy-lane-site/
The exhibition will be opened by renowned artist Tamarin Norwood
Exhibition Runs: Saturday 11 May – Friday 17 May 10-6 daily
Guided Tours 2pm daily
Image: Jaclyn McRae
April 13, 2013
London Fieldworks, Super Kingdom, 2009
Just returned from Association of Art Historians conference in Reading where I organised a session on Birds and Art called TWITCHERS, along with my colleagues Paul Kilsby and Clair Chinnery at Oxford Brookes University’s research cluster ARP (Art Research Practice).
The day covered birds in art from the middle ages until now. In my introduction I mentioned art projects involving birds by London Fieldworks, Marcus Coates, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva and Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas. Paul Kilsby talked about his use of birds in his art works, which often refer to historical art and especially 17th century Dutch paintings. Jana Lucas from Basel talked about the depiction of falcons and herons in the late medieval deck of playing cards: the Ambras Court Hunting Deck. Caitlin Silberman from University of Wisconsin’s examined Victorian illustrated books on birds and discussed anthropomorphic parallels implied in representations of crows and stereotypes of a criminal Victorian underclass. Hanna Johansson from University of Helsinki raised the issue of shifts around animal ethics, looking at the 19th century art and taxidermy of Magnus von Wright and the work of contemporary artist Jussi Heikkila. Steve Pantazis examined the role of live and stuffed birds in the work of Jannis Kounnellis. Alexandra Kokoli from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen presented a paper on birds as signposts in the work of Sutapa Biswas. Clair Chinnery gave a presentation on her artwork, Cuculus Prospectus and the research she undertook for the work in the Ornithological Collection at the Natural History Museum in Tring. On behalf of artists London Fieldworks, I showed a film made in the Brazilian Rainforest focussed on a bird hunter turned eco-tourism guide and bird mimic.
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Villa Lituania at 2007 Venice Biennale – start of the international pigeon race.
April 11, 2013
This year’s Oxford Brookes Fine Art Degree Show opens on Friday 10 May 6-8pm and runs until Friday 17 May.
April 11, 2013
My essay on artists brook and black and their hops project has just been published here:
Public Art Online: http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/whatsnew/news/article.php/Plot+16%3A+The+Fermenting+Room+%28return+of+the+rhizome%29
March 7, 2013
School of Arts, Richard Hamilton Building,
Headington Hill Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP
Exhibition Opening: Friday 8 March 5-7pm
Exhibition continues: Monday 11 March – Friday 15 March 10am-5pm
brook & black - Martha Cadle - Liming Chen - Stephen Cornford
Jack Eden - Sarah Jex - Paul Kilsby - Elaine Le Corre - Ray Lee
Andrew MacConville - Stelios Manganis - Ruth Millar
Magali Moreau - Derek Morris - Adrian Pawley - Helen Slater
Lucy Turner - Tracey Warr
woodshedding = to hone creative skills in a removed location such as a shed
August 22, 2012
The Urbonas Studio residency at Modern Art Oxford finished last week with the maiden voyage of our biomimetic raft inspired by jellyfish and lilypads, made from recycled materials and neoprene, and using a yuloh paddle (thanks to Mike Bedwell). We had an exciting journey down river from Medley Sailing Club on Port Meadow to Osney Mill Marina. We plan to develop the raft to incorporate a water filtration system and a media lab enabling us to undertake a journey interviewing people along the river and recording and broadcasting underwater. During our MAO residency we made 15 film interviews.
Many thanks to all the people and organisations who helped make the project possible including Emily Korchmaros, Michael Stanley at Modern Art Oxford, Laura Degenhardt, Stephanie Turner, Scot Blyth, Lucia, Paul Teigh, Sarah Plumb, Julie Turley, Matt, Chris, Kay, Itzsy, Rectory Farm, Orinoco, Tony Munsey at Osney Mill Marina, Philip Colbourn at St Edward’s School Boatyard, Kate Rew at the Outdoor Swimming Society, Tim Eastop at the Canal & River Trust, Oxford Brookes University, Association of Art Historians, Jonathan & Jane at The Isis Farmhouse, Barry at The Goldfish Bowl, Ryan Pink, Mike Blow, Ieva Kausteklyte, Taz Majid, Haavard Helle, James Hudson, Rachel Cheer,
and to our film subjects in Oxford: Mike Bedwell, Mark Davies, Sarah Markham at Godstow Lock with Mick Lyons and Tony Cross, Russell Robson at the Environment Agency, Richard Bailey of City Barge Rowing Club, Liz Lake, Will McCallum, Vicky Sweetlove, Zena Kamash, Neil and Sem at Salter’s Steamers, Chris Perrins, Bill Heine, Peter Travis at Falcon Rowing Club, Oxford Academicals Rowing Club and wild swimmers at Radley, and in Cambridge, US: Kurt Hasselbach at MIT Museum, Joseph A. Paradiso at MIT, Karl Haglund, Fran Charles at MIT Sailing Club, Renata von Tscharner from the Charles River Conservancy Trust.
Our blog: www.vilma.cc/river
March 8, 2012
30 March 2012 11am-6pm Arnolfini, Bristol
I am speaking at a one day conference Writing Practice: Exploring the Rhythms of Writing Practice in Art, Design & Performance.
Other speakers include John Wood (Design/Goldsmiths), Julia Lockheart (Writing PAD/Goldsmiths), Harriet Edwards (RCA) and Jerome Fletcher (Falmouth University).
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/1293
