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
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
The Ruskin School of Art and Oxford University Museum of Natural History co-organised an exhibition of new paintings by Mark Fairnington, which derived from a research project at the Hope Entomological Collection, second only in size and importance to the national insect collection at the Natural History Museum, London.
Mark Wallinger: Time and relative dimensions in space
At the end of the 1990s the Ruskin School of Art received funding from a variety of sources for a series of visual arts projects that collectively formed part of the Millennium celebrations for Year of the Artist. Year of the Artist aimed to raise the status and profile of living artists by placing 1000 artists in 1000 residencies across the country, taking them out of the traditional spaces usually associated with art and placing them in unusual and surprising locations.
Catherine Yass: Double Agent
At the end of the 1990s the Ruskin School of Art received funding from a variety of sources for a series of visual arts projects that collectively formed part of the Millennium celebrations for Year of the Artist. Year of the Artist aimed to raise the status and profile of living artists by placing 1000 artists in 1000 residencies across the country, taking them out of the traditional spaces usually associated with art and placing them in unusual and surprising locations.
Sir Roger Penrose: Shadows of the Mind
Shadows of the Mind was a touring exhibition of drawings by Sir Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Research and the Artist: Considering the Role of the Art School
The Ruskin School of Art organised a symposium at St Anne’s College, Oxford on Friday 28 May 1999, which explored the future of research in the visual arts with reference to the role that art schools could play in this area. It was staged for an invited audience of over 100 people representing the higher education and public arts funding sectors, relevant government agencies, and charitable trusts and foundations.
The John Berger Lectures
The John Berger Lectures take place on an occasional basis and focus on various aspects of art history. The overall title salutes the seminal and ongoing contribution of John Berger to the study of the visual arts.
Brook Andrew, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Gertsakis and Graham Gussin: Tumblong
