Summer Sights & Sounds

Having been on a much needed holiday, just thought we would update you with a few things we've seen and done, so, here you go!

Blessing Force at Truck

Blessing Force presented a stage of art installation and music at this year's TRUCK festival. With sculptural works dotted around performing musicians, alongside take-away art in the form of intriguing wristbands and illustrated stickers Looking forward too seeing more in Oxford from this exciting community of artists, musicians & writers.

Immediate Territory Selection

We are currently in deliberation  and discussion over the selection of artists to exhibit in the first curated exhibition and one day art event at Magdalen Road Studios, Immediate Territory. The caliber of applications was very high and successful applicants will be informed shortly.

For more information and updates see the exhibition page on the Magdalen Road Studios website.

Casa Da Musica

Although we didn't get the chance to see a performance here, we did have a look around this inspirational piece of archiiecture

Rem Koolhaas & Ellen van Loon - Office for Metropolitan Architecture's Casa da Música, was conceived to mark 2001, the year in which Porto was Cultural Capital of Europe, and it is the first new building in Portugal to be entirely dedicated to music - to the presentation and public enjoyment of music, to music education and to the creation of music.

RUSKIN DEGREE SHOW 2011

Will be sure to be attending this on Friday, looks like another strong collection of graduates.

25 - 26th June 12pm - 6pm
Private View 24 June 6pm - 11pm
The Old Power Station, Arthur Street, OX2 OAS

Aslinn Mcnamara / Annabel Bertie / Anya Aleksandrova / Claire-Louise Shifrin / Emma Mccormick-Goodhart / Flo Mather / Jack Steven / James Sutton / Kelly Dixon / Kinga Lubowiecka/ Kira Freije / Louis-Jack Horton-Stephens / Mai Tran / Matthew Morris / Penny Andrea / Peter Shenai / Poppy Illsley / Rowan Fuggle / Svetlana Grishina /
Thomas Watson / Tom Williams 

Moths' Wings by Lisa Busby

O3 Gallery
Sunday 26th June 2011, 11am-4pm

This extraordinary artwork is a Song, Performance and Installation that attempts to explore the complex relationship between the domestic interior spaces of our own creation and natural world; with actual locations and illusory ones. On this day you will witness the artwork in its full glory as Lisa inhabits her ‘hand-made’ environment and invites you to join her!

Read more about Lisa and Sleeps in Oysters on their website here.

Call for project proposals: IMMEDIATE TERRITORY

Magdalen Road Studios' IMMEDIATE TERRITORY is a one day art exhibition taking place on 29 October 2011 in Oxford's Magdalen Road. It will showcase works that take the perception of the multi-faceted, often disparate realities of the city as their subject matter, either directly or metaphorically. The goal of the exhibition is to create a one day art show which is a complex and contradictory, therefore surprising and intellectually challenging reflection of the city. For more information see the exhibition page on the Magdalen Road Studios website

Final deadline for receiving applications is 30 June 2011. Please email a CV, a project proposal (single A4 sheet maximum) and visual support material for your project (documentation of past projects - no more than 5 photographs; and/or sketches or plans - no more than 5 images) to katalin@magdalenroadstudios.com . Applications in an electronic format only . Please keep checking their website for further details.