Graduate Seminars: Una Henry and Simon Pope
Una Henry and Simon Pope, Ruskin DPhil candidates, will be giving presentations on Wed, 12 June, from 3 to 5pm in the OMS. All welcome.
Workshop: Theories of the Image
James Cross wins the Slingsby Prize
Congratulations to finalist James Cross (Christ Church) for winning this year’s Kevin Slingsby Prize for Funnel Vision.
Oxford University Press Pirye Prize 2013
The winner of this year’s OUP Pirye Prize is Camilla Metcalf (St Edmund Hall). Congratulations! Five shortlisted second year students have been offered an exhibition in the Walton Street offices of OUP. Congratulations to Melanie Gurney (St Edmund Hall), Evie Kitt (The Queen’s College), Alex Pullen (St Edmund Hall), Maddy Bogacki (St John’s) and Lucy Mayes (St Hugh’s)!
Turner Prize 2013: Shortlist Announced
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, a Visiting Tutor at the Ruskin, has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2013.
Lambert Wiesing announced as Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the Ruskin School
Professor Lambert Wiesing has been awarded a 2013 Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship at the Ruskin School. Through the generous support of the Leverhulme Trust, he will be holding a series of lectures, talks and workshops at the University of Oxford in Trinity Term.
Mapping South: Journeys in South-South Cultural Relations
With an international editorial collective led by the Ruskin’s Director of Graduate Studies Dr Anthony Gardner, Mapping South explores the South as a complex platform for regional identity and cultural provocation through essays, interviews and artworks by contributors from Australia and around the world.
Black Drop premieres at the Radcliffe Observatory
For the past two years the Ruskin School has been collaborating with Modern Art Oxford on a new film by the Turner Prize-winning artist Simon Starling, which responds to the rare planetary phenomenon of the transit of Venus and its relationship to the beginnings of moving image technology.
Ruskin Rated Number One Art School in UK


