13th Jul 10

Applications are currently being invited for the post of a full-time Theatre Technician/Stage Manager from September 2010. This is an opportunity for a person with professional experience, or who has recently graduated from a technical theatre or stage management course. The successful applicant is likely to have a broad range of technical skills, covering all areas of production and stage management. For full details click `Read More` below, click the St Edward`s link, and then scroll down to the Theatre Technician details. Applications…

4th Jun 10

The Begbroke studio of abstract artist Mark Rowan-Hull has a lived-in feel. There are shelves of CDs (mostly jazz), a bed doubling as a sofa, a table covered in eight-inch square vivid paintings on card and an array of larger works that I thought might still be in progress but are in fact completed (that`s the way he paints!) “I did that at the Clothmakers` Hall in Leeds,” he says, pointing at a daubed five-foot-high rectangle of perspex, “while pianist Peter Hill played next to me.” That`s what this artist mostly does now: not much in…

4th May 10

The North Wall is delighted to be the venue of a unique exhibition of new work by both emerging artists and a retrospective of work by Alexandra Reinhardt, an artist who died in 2004 aged 43, having battled with a rare blood disorder and profound deafness all her life. The Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award was set up in 2005 in her memory, the aims being to provide artists with the opportunity not only to further their own practice, but also to fund 12-week artist-in-residence projects culminating in the creation of a piece of public art. The…

3rd May 10

Read Clare Carswell`s review of Karen Purple`s exhibition...Clare Carswell is an interdisciplinary artist writer and curator based in Oxford UK and Berlin Germany. `Purple`s beautiful and gesturally abstract paintings reflect intrinsic associations with landscape and organic form and resonate with her highly individual associations of place and mood. In so doing she offers us her own visionary and timeless works that reveal her deep respect for the very Earth itself and reach beyond their specific corporeality to something ancient, primal…

13th Apr 10

A new exhibition by Karen Purple opens next week (From Monday 19th) Karen`s daily walks in the countryside have given her a unique approach to painting and drawing, by using dyes and pigments she makes herself from objects, soil and plants foraged from the undergrowth. The result is an intriguing mix of boxes, tiny sculptural drawings and large scale paintings. Karen has been working with the Oxford University`s Harcourt Arboretum for the last year, and she will be giving an Insight Tour on 5th May at 2pm. There will also be an opportunity…