A Weekend with Alex Cox
Punk Filmmaker Rebel Artist Anarchist Coffee Drinker
Something Paradoxical: A day of films by Pawel Pawlikowski
Janna Levin: NESTA Dream Time Fellowship
Acclaimed astrophysicist Janna Levin received a Dream Time Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts allowing her to take up the position of scientist-in-residence at the Ruskin School of Art in 2003-2004. At the same time, she held a position in the Department of Physics allowing her to continue her scientific research on chaos, black holes and cosmology.
Alison Turnbull: World in a Chamber & The Family Beds
Alison Turnbull’s residency at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden focused on the implications of new genetic data for the classification of plants and included visits to early botanic gardens across Europe. Over a period of eighteen months, the artist examined how plant collections are organised and how this organisation is dependent on drawing and other forms of coding.
Arts Council England Oxford-Melbourne Fellowship
The Arts Council England Oxford-Melbourne Fellowship was a major residency programme for established artists, which offered support for sustained periods of practice-based research in England and Australia. After visiting Oxford for two months of preparatory study, the artist spent four months in Melbourne on further study and production.
Boyd Webb: Horse & Dog
Horse & Dog is the fourth film by Boyd Webb. Offbeat and engaging, it revels in the elegantly observed absurdities that have long been a feature of the artist’s work with photography, sculpture, performance and the moving image.
Henry Moore Foundation 1871 Fellowship
The Henry Moore Foundation 1871 Fellowship was a three-year programme that offered established artists an opportunity to undertake research on aspects of American culture, develop new work and exchange ideas with professional and student artists on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The six-month award included a research residency at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford and a production residency at the San Francisco Art Institute.
A curriculum for artists
A curriculum for artists was a research project initiated by the Ruskin School of Art and the New York Academy of Art that examined some of the issues surrounding contemporary fine art education in Britain and the United States of America.
Jordan Baseman: The Comedians
The Comedians is a film by Jordan Baseman that features a series of comedy routines performed by adolescent boys and girls.
John Ruskin and the Geographical Imagination
To celebrate the centenary of the death of John Ruskin in 2000, the Ruskin School of Art organised an exhibition of Ruskin’s drawings of landscape at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford.
Mark Fairnington: Mantidae
