Monday, 27 November 2017, 15:00 to 16:00
In this walking tour of the exhibition,Joseph Bray, the Course Leader for Rycotewood Furniture Degree programmes, will give an introduction to the history of furniture design and craft at Rycotewood spanning the last 80 years. Joseph is passionate about furniture and has been involved in the furniture industry for over twenty years. He will reveal some of the thinking behind the design and making of works in the exhibition.
Monday, 20 November 2017, 15:00 to 16:00
This talk and presentation by Charlie Whinney will take place in the area directly opposite to The Glass Tank, followed by a short demonstration in a technical lab (a short five minute walk away) using a wallpaper stripper to generate the steam bending technique used in his chair designs. Space is limited to 15 persons in the demonstration and slots will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Please email: tde-glasstank@brookes.ac.uk if you wish to attend the demonstration.
Monday, 13 November 2017, 15:00 to 16:00
In this walking tour of the exhibition Joseph Bray, the Course Leader for Rycotewood Furniture Degree programmes, will give an introduction to the history of furniture design and craft at Rycotewood spanning the last 80 years. Joseph is passionate about furniture and has been involved in the furniture industry for over twenty years. He will reveal some of the thinking behind the design and making of works in the exhibition.
9:00, Monday, 06 November 2017 to 17:00, Friday, 01 December 2017
An exhibition celebrating 80 years of furniture design and making at Rycotewood Furniture Oxford, an internationally renowned centre of excellence that has an established reputation in the furniture industry. Rycotewood is part of Activate Learning, one of the university's strategic partners in the Associate College Partnership (ACP).
Thinking through Making shows how students at the Centre engage in the research and development of furniture through the making process. It includes the work of current students undertaking the BA (Hons) and FdA Furniture Design and Make programmes, as well as distinguished alumni.
Monday, 09 October 2017, 18:00 to 20:00
Andrew will talk about the influences on his work over 66 years. It encompasses drawing, printmaking, photography, film and design.
His work explores the apparently anonymous mobile infrastructure of cities, in particular the interstate system, the largest designed object in the world. In particular he will talk about Progress and its connection with the work of Albrecht Durer, Ross Macdonald, and Ansel Adams.
The work offers not the unique quality of handicraft, but the elements of three traditions: that art is evidence, and of an ability to select significant objects, and things from experience; that art is the residue of engaging the existing systems with particular mechanical techniques and processes; and that art provides the possibility of fabricating new versions of reality.
These procedures are organised as Arrangements, and Nonuments under the principles of Informalism.
9:00, Monday, 02 October 2017 to 17:00, Friday, 27 October 2017
PROGRESS is a set of 20 hand drawn black and white realist images and texts that update John Bunyan’s allegory: The Pilgrims Progress, to the 21st century. Pilgrim’s wife is re-imagined as a female private detective driving through the sub-prime landscape of California, observing the locations of the original trials. The drawings are seen in the context of markedly sombre and austere black and white photographic prints that depict the surrounding landscape. Nature is seen as dark, intimidating, and threatening rather than benign.
9:00, Monday, 19 June 2017 to 17:00, Friday, 21 July 2017
Celebrating ten years of the Artist Teacher Scheme MA in Education at Oxford Brookes University, this exhibition showcases individual visual enquiries from artist teachers. The Artist Teacher Scheme is a national programme of continuing professional development for art educators and provides a unique opportunity for artist teachers to be immersed in their own art, craft and design practice. Beyond Surface provides a platform for past and present artist teacher researchers to showcase a diverse range of making practices that communicate these shifting professional identities.
