A round-up of art exhibitions in Oxfordshire

  • THE North Wall Arts Centre will welcome an exhibition of scarves, sculpture and works on paper by Victoria Rees to its gallery from September 2-21. The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art graduate’s work is inspired by her time spent working with the Southbank Sinfonia and the band Jesus Jones. The exhibition coincides with The Southbank Sinfonia's performance at The North Wall as part of the young Britten in Oxford festival. Rees’s scarves were designed and produced in response to her time spent as Artist in Residence at Garsington Manor from 2009-10.

 

  • Didn’t make it to the seaside this summer? Earlier this year O3 Gallery sent five fine art students on a 10-day residency to the Porthleven Lifeboat Art Studio, in the picturesque harbour of Porthleven, South Cornwall. While there, the students worked together to produce a body of collaborative artwork in a number of disciplines including performance and text as well as visual art. This work will be exhibited at the O3 Gallery from September 7-22.

 

  • High House Gallery in Clanfield is introducing audiences to Dan McDermott’s The Lumière Project from August 6 to September 22. Interested in what could be called the “present moment-ness” of past events captured on film, The Lumière Project is an on-going investigation that consists of paintings, photographs, prints, and moving image all based on a common source – photographic frames taken from one of the earliest examples of cinema, The Lumière Brothers’ Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, 1895. 

 

  • New and recent work by LA-based artist Friedrich Kunath, whose exhibition Raymond Moody’s Blues marks Kunath’s first solo show in the UK, will draw upon imagery from Renaissance woodcuts, slapstick cartoons, and pop culture of the 1960s and 1970s to create curious works that plot a playful route between humour and pathos. Modern Art Oxford will also be welcoming British artist Tim Head back to the gallery for his exhibition Displacement, an installation of light projected from opposite ends of the Piper Gallery that collides to create a virtual object in a physical space. Both exhibitions will open at Modern Art Oxford on September 21 and continue until November 17.