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…

Sir Roger Penrose: Shadows of the Mind

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…

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…

Zarina Bhimji, Martha Fleming, Susan Hiller, Sharon Kivland, Brighid Lowe, Cornelia Parker: Inserts

Inserts published commissioned artworks in a variety of specialist magazines and academic journals in the years leading up to the Millennium. This enabled contemporary art to appear in and interact with contexts where it would not normally be found and…

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…

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…

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…

Simon Callery: Segsbury Project

In 1996 Simon Callery was given an opportunity to work alongside archaeologists from the University of Oxford who had recently…

Stefan Gec: Buoy

Buoy was the third and final piece in a series of closely related works by Stefan Gec that took their…