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St Anne's College

University of Oxford

Photograph of the Ruth Deech Building (detail of the lift tower)
 

About St Anne's College

About St Anne's College

Recent Exhibitions

Autumn 2008 (17th November-19th December)

Miranda Creswell – Painted Drawings

Creswell wields a brush as though it were a pencil. The exhibition will include studies of poise and posture, landscapes, and abstract pieces. What unites these divergent kinds of work is Creswell’s inimitable touch – at once energetic and fragile – and an almost musical use of colour to suggest movement and mood.

Miranda Creswell studied at Camberwell School of Art in the 1980s and has since then held many solo and group exhibitions, for instance at Cadogan Fine Art, Leighton House, Modern Art Oxford and Ely Cathedral. She has taught at RADA and in Brixton Prison.

February 2008

Pam Franklin – Recent Work

This is an art of texture, colour and pattern. In many of the paintings, details or background elements from old master paintings – e.g. by Piero della Francesca – have been extracted, magnified and arranged in orderly designs. This sampling technique has a postmodern frisson; but the works also have an ancient feel which derives from the gesso on which they are painted and the obvious care with which the artist’s brush has brought them into being.

In her most recent work, first shown at this exhibition, Franklin loosens her ties to art history and creates freer patterns, juxtaposing them in a more openly expressive style.

See: http://www.theoxfordtimes.net/search/display.var.2043496.0.pam_franklin_st_annes_college.php; http://www.pamfranklin.co.uk/index.htm

November 2007

Gerard Hanson – Jamaica was my Father’s Home

The pictures are all of Jamaica: street scenes by night, shops, huts, landscapes. The colours are attractive but also have an air of pastiche about them; the lines tend to pull away from figuration into abstract blocks or patterns which feel partly decorative and partly disorienting, even threatening.

Hanson grew up in the UK and did not visit his father’s home in Jamaica until he was in his twenties. So the pictures both express and explore the impulse to romanticise as well as the need to belong. The brushwork has the feel of a caress; but the strength of the images is such that you feel they could very well reject your gaze or tell you to shove off.

See: http://www.theoxfordtimes.net/search/display.var.1831940.0.gerard_hanson_st_annes_college.php;
www.gerardhanson.com

November 2006

Walshworks Retrospective

Walshworks is one of the pen-names of a prolific and respected illustrator, Joanna Walsh, whose pictures appear, for example, in The New Yorker, The Idler and The Guardian.

Our exhibition is of her digital prints, finished on computer but incorporating a mixture of collage and drawing. They are exciting pieces: eclectic, satirical, bang up to date in execution, often a little nostalgic in their look.

 

 

See: http://www.theoxfordtimes.net/search/display.var.1036113.0.joanna_walsh_st_annes_college.php
http://www.walshworks.org.uk/