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Darwin: 200th anniversary exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London
2:57pm Wednesday 7th January 2009
February 12 is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of a man who changed our understanding of the world and our place within it. A sculpture of Charles Darwin as an old man looks benignly down at visitors and the skeleton of the diplodocus in the Central Hall of The Natural History Museum in South Kensington. Until April 19, you can learn more about him as an energetic young man and the 20-year birth pangs of his On the Origin of Species by visiting their Darwin exhibition.
Comments (1)Hark the Herald Angels Sing: Christ Church Gallery
11:57am Tuesday 23rd December 2008
You can “celebrate the spirit of the Christmas season” at the Christ Church Picture Gallery until February 22 with a selection of Old Master drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries. When I went along early in November, it was too early for festive thoughts but, as usual, the sheer quality of the drawings the gallery shows, all from Christ Church’s fabulous collection, soon took over.
Oxfordshire Craft Guild: Oxfordshire Museum
3:33pm Wednesday 10th December 2008
The Garden Gallery at The Oxfordshire Museum, in Woodstock is a splendid venue for members of The Oxfordshire Craft Guild, who are displaying their wares there until January 4.
Sarah Jarvis: Blackwell's, Broad Street
3:30pm Wednesday 10th December 2008
Walk into most cafes and you will find people eating, drinking and talking. Walk into Caffe Nero, on the first floor of Blackwell’s High Street bookshop, and you will notice that many of the customers are reading or scribbling away in notebooks. This café has long been a place to meet, discuss ideas and work alone, yet not alone. Many people find the place stimulates work – novels, musicals, scripts, essays, theorems and sermons are forged here among the clatter and chatter and the shelves of books.
Isobel Pravda, the Jam Factory, Oxford
3:25pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
The Jam Factory, opposite the Said Business School, is an excellent place to show art. The walls are spacious and the coffee served second to none. So visitors can relax with a drink while taking in the exhibits. Actress Isobel Pravda is displaying work until December 13. This is her first show but, given its quality, there will be many more.
Eric Gill prints: Woodstock and Cuddington, near Thame
3:24pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
The work of Eric Gill is proving rather the flavour of the month in our local galleries. At the Creative Art Gallery, in Oxford Street, Woodstock, until Sunday, you can see a range of his woodblock engravings as well as new works by artists and sculptors inspired by the Gill tradition. These include Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, Emma Maiden, Tom Kemp, Bernard Johnson, Paul Mortimer and Tom Clarke. Prices range from £65 to £3,000.
Jericho Freeze: Jericho Gallery
3:17pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
This exhibition comprises an interesting and complementary mix of work and media by nine local artists. The gallery window is dominated by a larger- than-life female figure by Rachel Ducker, made from coiled wire: hair akimbo, she is clearly more concerned about exercising than meeting and greeting.
Miranda Cresswell: St Anne's College
3:16pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Choosing a title for Miranda Creswell’s exhibition at St Anne’s Mary Ogilvie Gallery was easy. Miranda uses her brushes as other artists would use pencils – the lines on her canvases really do look like marks left by a pencil, but they are not – hence Painted Drawings. This show includes work from three separate series from the past few years, yet they are nevertheless entwined.
Karen Purple: Penwood House
3:03pm Wednesday 19th November 2008
Every day brings new inspiration for Karen Purple. She is an artist steeped in the changing seasons. In her daily walks around Long Hanborough she draws on the beauty of the fields, the trees and plants which she records in her journal, a journal not written in words but in paint. Her art, like Wordsworth’s, conveys a “felt presence, a sense sublime . . . whose dwelling is in the light of settings suns”.
Brien 0 Ruairc
9:15am Thursday 13th November 2008
rien O Ruairc sold his first painting when he was just 17 and has been selling and exhibiting ever since. His first London exhibition opened on the day that President Kennedy was assassinated and no one bought a thing. But he coped with that.
Jan Crombie: Ovada Gallery
10:38am Thursday 6th November 2008
A new body of work by Oxford artist Jan Crombie on show at the OVADA Gallery, Gloucester Green, is the latest in an exciting series of one person exhibitions, featuring the work of emerging artists who are now being taken seriously. This show, which is the result of several years of planning and painting, explores the question of identity by asking What is it like to be a Bat? It’s a question first posed by philosopher L. S. Sprigge and made famous by Thomas Nagel in an article of the same name, published in 1974.
Robin Rhode: Hayward Gallery
10:06am Thursday 6th November 2008
Robin Rhode chalks things on to walls then plays with them. He draws a bicycle and rides it, heaves a boat up a ramp, tries to blow out a chalk candle, juggles with charcoal balls. The young South African artist, now living in Berlin and a rising talent on the international art scene, creates a sort of living cartoon from pavements, streets and city walls, using them as his ‘paper’, the backdrop for performances he captures on film or in photographic series.
Oxford Art Society: Said Business School
2:01pm Thursday 30th October 2008
I often play a game with myself when viewing work by members of the Oxford Art Society. On entering the show, I go straight to the centre of the room and allow my eyes to travel over the wide range of work on show; then, having selected a dozen or so that make an instant impression, I view them all more closely. My aim is to find the picture I would save for prosperity if someone suddenly shouted “Fire!”
House of Books, Modern Art, Oxford
3:40pm Wednesday 22nd October 2008
When you open the door to the Lower Gallery at Modern Art Oxford and enter The Dark Pool instillation that encompasses the entire room, you feel you are intruding on someone’s private space.
Fabric of Life: Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury
11:45am Thursday 16th October 2008
Textiles are traditionally associated with unremarked domesticity and everyday clothing. This exhibition moves textiles into a new realm where pieces are primarily decorative and ornamental, where they clearly speak for themselves. Some are quite beautiful, many uncomfortable, and all thought-provoking.
Impressions of exile and the travelling circus
10:47am Thursday 9th October 2008
Artists Oscar Kokoschka and Jack B. Yeats were not only friends but their art had a deep bond, writes SYLVIA VETTA
Earthly Materials: WOA, Bampton
3:04pm Wednesday 8th October 2008
Nine artists from the Oxford Printmakers Co-operative are celebrating their 30th anniversary using traditional and innovative processes and a wide range of materials. Influenced by the Japanese 'wood-cut' blocks Josephine Sumner uses three or four bright hand-cut lino pieces to create lively, exuberant animals. Many are threatened like the Giant Anteater from South America and the Diana Monkey with his furry brow from West Africa. Great for illustrations or for a child’s room, each character tells a story.
Nature's Idyll, Art Jericho
3:01pm Wednesday 8th October 2008
Art Jericho is a welcome new addition to Oxford’s galleries. As an exhibition space, it works well and it is fast establishing a reputation for mounting innovative and interesting work.
Roddy McColl: Port Meadow photographs
3:00pm Wednesday 8th October 2008
A series of stunning images by Oxfordshire photographer Roddy McColl are now on display at the O3 Gallery, Oxford Castle.
Admire the nifty needlework of a President's girl
10:39am Thursday 2nd October 2008
SYLVIA VETTA finds Jefferson's daughter's sampler on the autumn trail of the Cotswold Art and Antique Dealers' Association
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