Workshop: Theories of the Image
Tuesday 18th June. A one-day workshop on theories of the image to mark the launch of the Oxford Institute of Visual Research (IVR) and the 2013 Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, awarded to Professor Lambert Wiesing (University of Jena).
James Cross wins the Slingsby Prize
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.
The Ashmolean Design Award
Emily Motto is the winner of the The Ashmolean Design Award 2013. Emily’s stunning design is now being considered for a host of new items that will be sold in the museum shop from May. One example is shown in the image above, alongside a photo of the original artefact from the Ashmolean’s collection.
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.
ARTMargins Publication
The Ruskin’s Director of Graduate Studies, Dr Anthony Gardner, is co-editor of the latest issue of ARTMargins, the newest art journal from the MIT Press
Ruskin Rated Number One Art School in UK
In the Complete University Guide for 2013, the Ruskin School has been awarded the highest score in the subject tables for art and design in the UK.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye wins the Future Generation Art Prize
