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Oxfordshire
Artweeks is the largest open studio event in the UK and this year
337 artists and artisans are opening up their homes and studios
to the public.
Artweeks
takes place 15th May to 6th June 2004, moving from Oxford City to
South then North Oxfordshire over the three week period.
Check
out the photo gallery of some the artwork from the Summertown Festival
2004
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The
wide diversity of the work on show ranges from traditional crafts
to contemporary installations and encompasses the spectrum of arts
media, including painting, drawing photography, audio/visual, bookbinding,
paper making, jewellery, textiles and stained glass.
In
recognition of the artistic creation the county is capable of producing,
the work of two prominent Oxfordshire artists will also be on show
for the duration of Artweeks.
These
will be John Buckley at the Ashmolean Museum and Jan Crombie at
the Said Business School.
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by John Buckley |
John
Buckley, The Landmines Exhibition, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
The
artist who famously created a giant shark 聭crashing聮 through
the roof of a suburban house in Oxford聮s Headington, exhibits
this series of sculptures created from the hand-made artificial
limbs of victims of landmines in Cambodia.
The
limbs, made for victims before they could get medical prosthetics
fitted in hospital, are roughly hewn from wood, metal and shoe soles.
The result is a collection of evocative and charged objects which
are an amalgam of Buckley聮s own creations and the found prosthetics.
11th to 30th May. Tue-Sat 10-5; Sun 2-5. Free admission.
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| Artwork
by Jan Crombie |
Jan
Crombie at the Said Business School, Oxford.
Crombie
has created a new series of large scale acrylic paintings that seek
to test the symbolic value of found objects and in so doing refer
to the emotions that stem from tragic events that evolve with the
passage of time.
Objects,
arranged on the canvas without perspective, often have associations
that refer back to the artist聮s Hungarian ancestry and her
family聮s experiences of the Holocaust. 17th to 30th May. Mon-Fri
10-6; Sat-Sun 11-3. Free admission.
Oxford
Artweeks 2004 displays art in the following regions:
City
15 May - 23 May
South 22 May - 30 May
North 29 May - 6 June
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