Projects
European Live Art Archive
The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art is collaborating with the University of Girona in Spain and the artist’s residency GlogaurAIR in Berlin on an ambitious new project to map live art across Europe. Read More
John Gerrard: The Legacy Fellowship
The Legacy Fellowship, the first-ever artist fellowship to fuse art and sport, has been awarded to John Gerrard. Read More
The Elements of Drawing: John Ruskin’s Teaching Collections at Oxford
The University of Oxford owns the majority of the teaching collections and catalogues assembled by John Ruskin for his Oxford drawing schools in the third quarter of the 19th century. This material, which included drawings by himself and other artists, prints and photographs, is now… Read More
Gabriela Albergaria: hither and thither
The tree collection at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden plays a major role in creating the Garden’s unique sense of place. As you enter its ancient walls the trees act as the dominant feature, peppering the landscape with centuries of botanical history. From the… Read More
John Updike: A Celebration with Ian McEwan, Hermione Lee and David Baddiel
Open just about any book by the supreme American writer John Updike, who sadly died on 27 January 2009 at the age of 76, and you will find a variant on the following biographical note: John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He… Read More
Anna Lucas: Demonstration 50.15
In October 2007, Anna Lucas was awarded a Visiting Fellowship in Art and Biomedical Science in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford. Out of this residency came a film called Demonstration 50.15, which offers up a portrait of the… Read More
Sonia Boyce: For you, only you
At the invitation of the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Sonia Boyce conceived a collaborative project that addressed itself to the boundary between classical music and sound art. Her partners in this enterprise were Alamire, a consort of some of Britain’s finest early… Read More
Rob Kesseler: Hortus in vitro
Hortus in vitro is a permanent, site-specific installation in the greenhouses at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden. Read More
Annie Cattrell, Peter Fraser, Tim Head and Nicky Hirst: Salt Bridges
Oxford University’s Department of Biochemistry commissioned a new building from Hawkins\Brown Architects to provide state-of-the-art research facilities and an outstanding host environment for its academics, students and visiting researchers. Read More
Tania Kovats: Museum of the White Horse
The Museum of the White Horse was a personal response by Tania Kovats to our historic and ongoing fascination with the Uffington White Horse, an ancient monument carved into the chalk downland in southwest Oxfordshire, and comprised a travelling landscape museum housed in a converted… Read More