ICE cream, bunting and an orchestra in a horse box?
That’s not what you would call your normal street party, but Modern Art Oxford in Pembroke Street decided to celebrate summer in a typically quirky way.
The event, in a yard next to the gallery, was inspired by the artist Sarah Kenchington’s Horse Box Orchestra – Miss Kenchington has made a mechanical orchestra that she can play from inside a horse box.
It is not the first time she has been innovative about making music. Earlier this month she created the Sound House, turning a home in Rose Hill into an instrument for a day.
Miss Kenchington, trained as a sculptor, fuses the world of art and music in her work to create “audibly and visually stunning” work.
She said: “I sometimes feel I’m gate crashing the world of music. When I’m performing I’m not saying ‘look at me, see how well I can play’ but showing what the instruments can do”.
Joining Miss Kenchington at the yard party were Felicity ‘Felix’ Ford, musicians Shane Connolly, Alex Hawkins and Oxford-based French tango band Ensemble Azut and DJ Simon Wright.
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