Brook Andrew, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Gertsakis and Graham Gussin: Tumblong
Tumblong was an online project that encouraged the production of new art exploring the historic and contemporary connections between Britain and Australia.
Zarina Bhimji, Martha Fleming, Susan Hiller, Sharon Kivland, Brighid Lowe, Cornelia Parker: Inserts
Arts Council England Helen Chadwick Fellowship
The Arts Council England Helen Chadwick Fellowship was established by the Ruskin School of Art and the British School at Rome to help emerging and established artists make new work by spending periods of time in Oxford and Rome. After visiting Italy for a one-month reconnaissance period, the artist devoted two months to research on their chosen topic in England before returning to Italy for three months of intensive studio-based production.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Pendulum
Pendulum was an investigation into the nature of dual citizenship and developed out of Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s Visiting Fellowship at the Maison Française d’Oxford in 1997. The Maison Française is a social and human sciences research and cultural centre established by the University of Oxford and the Universities of Paris and serves as a forum for Anglo-French debate.
Stephen Farthing: Cleft Surgery and Facial Appearance
The cleft lip and palate deformity is a common congenital anomaly affecting approximately 1:650 newborn babies. The cleft anomaly covers the whole spectrum of deformity from a minor problem such as an incomplete unilateral cleft of the lip to a devastating deformity as in a child with a complete bilateral cleft of the lip and palate.
Simon Callery: Segsbury Project
In 1996 Simon Callery was given an opportunity to work alongside archaeologists from the University of Oxford who had recently begun excavating prehistoric and Romano-British sites on the Ridgeway, a chalk downland in central southern England and one of the oldest trackways in Europe. Nobody at the time, least of all the artist himself, expected the association to flourish in quite the way it did, and for seven years Oxford’s archaeologists invited Callery to accompany them on three major digs.
Stefan Gec: Buoy
Buoy was the third and final piece in a series of closely related works by Stefan Gec that took their inspiration from a quantity of metal plate, which the artist salvaged from eight decommissioned Soviet submarines that were being broken up for scrap on Tyneside in the early 1990s.
Ian Breakwell, Brian Catling, Graeme Miller, Geraldine Monk and Patrick Wright: Hidden Cities
In order to uncover some of the cultural meanings that had become buried beneath the burgeoning heritage industry of the 1980s and 1990s, the Ruskin School of Art commissioned a series of guided tours of British cities from tourist buses and boats in which the live commentaries were undertaken not by official guides, but by artists, poets and writers.
The Joseph Beuys Lectures
Joseph Beuys expanded the concepts of painting and sculpture and with them reached into all spheres of human activity, reinventing the role of the artist in society and encouraging collaborations between disciplines that had previously turned their backs on each other.
Richard Wentworth: Little Differences
The Ruskin School of Art and Christ Church, Oxford co-organised a project in which Richard Wentworth was given full access to Christ Church Picture Gallery. In collaboration with Jim Moyes, Wentworth showed new and existing work in the context of Old Master paintings and drawings, offering up fresh possibilities for the public display of an extraordinary historical collection in a purpose-built space of significant architectural interest.
Jake Tilson: Thecooker
