Sculpture Archives – The Oxford Student

Student Artist Profile: Alice Hackney

23rd May 202026th May 2020Jemine Barrow

Image Description: Alice Hackney painting Welcome to the inaugural article of The Oxford Student’s ‘Student Artist Profile’ series. Over the course of the next few weeks, we are hoping to bring awareness to the incredible artists in our midst and highlight Oxford’s promising art scene by allowing artists in our community to speak about themselves […]

‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’ by Edmund de Waal

19th October 20196th November 2019Catherine Jamieson

Image description: a netsuke cat I picked up this book expecting to learn a lot about netsuke, the 264 tiny Japanese sculptures that ceramicist Edmund De Waal inherited from his beloved uncle Ignace, known fondly as Iggie. Netsuke are little ornaments, usually ivory or wood, that were worn from the belt as part of traditional […]

Arts at Brainchild: An Interview with Lily Bonesso

24th September 201726th September 2017Isabella Cullen

Brainchild, set up by a group of friends in 2012, is a festival popping with creative attractions. Held in July at the brilliantly eccentric Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum, whose beautiful steam train puffs and toots on a railway track which circles outside the festival space, Brainchild really is one of a kind. Unlike at […]

Come down to the lady garden…

22nd April 2014Ruth Jolly

Lady Garden is a three-woman art exhibition staged in the unconventional setting of Kiss Bar on Park End Street. Against the backdrop of a nightclub (functioning bar included) Ruskin School of Art students Angeli Bhose, Ruth Spencer Jolly and Lu Williams present sculpture, film, sound art, digital collage, drawing and photography. With tongue firmly in cheek, the […]

Bonez & bronze

1st March 2013Merlin Seller

Room after room of rough totems, thick cartouches and half-buried sarcophagi. Imagine yourself an archaeologist in dream-land, and you’re half-way to immersing yourself in the work of Hans Josephsohn. The experience is not far from being buried alive. Josephsohn’s half-century of work has brought us the newly-opened and powerful retrospective in Modern Art Oxford. It […]

Inside Gormley’s Model

9th February 2013Merlin Seller

Groping around in the dark, I’ve banged into a work of art again. To be fair, the work is all around me. It lies on the ground and creeps towards the walls, a giant complex of iron crates, but ever so slightly human. Not least because a dozen of us are inside it. This is […]