The Body in History Network TT2026 Term Card has been released. @bodyinhistoryox.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @Emilia Stuchlik

Jesse Darling: Godsworth - Oude Kerk Amsterdam The Oude Kerk presents the first large-scale solo exhibition in the Netherlands by British artist Jesse Darling.

Ruskin's Jesse Darling presents a solo show at Oude Kerk, reflecting how value, meaning & social structures are constantly being redefined. It transforms a church floor covered in construction rubble into a landscape of playful sculptures made from reclaimed materials
www.oudekerk.nl/en/whats-on/...

Racheal Crowther review – unnerving installation attacks your mind … and your nostrils! The Irish artist scrambles your brain by cleverly combining calming pastel pinks with austere military health units and suffocating smells

Huge congratulations to artist and Ruskin tutor Racheal Crowther who presents her first institutional show at Chisenhale Gallery! Until 14th June

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

LIVE X EMPRes

LIVExEMPRES brings together experimental music, performance, sound art & film at @modernartoxford.bsky.social on Wednesday 29 April. The multi-room event runs from 6-10pm, presenting performances & installations by @theruskin.bsky.social artists & Faculty musicians www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-04-...

Part of Normes Corps, the Ruskin's Jesse Darling will present a site-specific installation transforming Palais de Tokyo’s grande verrière into a landscape of eroded symbols of power, reflecting on the fragility of material and ideological systems while resisting the norms of a productivist world.

We are delighted to share that Ruskin graduate (MFA 2025, BFA 2021) Deshna Shah will present a solo exhibition at New Delhi's Nature Morte!

'Poetry None the Less Science' explores fragments of text and everyday observations on canvas.

📍Nature Morte, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi
🗓 1st April-2nd May

Grow Into It 🌿
A new body of work by Alice Hackney marrying together ecological and disability research through installation, sculpture, video, print and textiles

📍 OVADA Gallery
📅 26–29 March 2026
✨ Free Entry

More info: alicehackney.com

#GrowIntoIt #AliceHackney #OVADA

Many congratulations to Ruskin's Dr Giulia Smith who contributed to a multi-authored volume on the Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams (1926-1990), recently announced as the winner of Historians of British Art Book Prize in the category Exemplary Scholarship on the Contemporary Period!

Ruskin Spring Drawing Sale!

Fusion Arts, 15 Park End St, OX1 1HH
Fri 13 March & Sat 14 March
11–3pm

A chance to browse a wide range of creative works from Ruskin students, with proceeds from the sale supporting the finalists' Degree Show in June.

Image: Naiya Ellis-Woodward & Aidana Orazgaliyeva

Second-year Show at @fusionartsox.bsky.social!

Ruskin second-year students are proud to present their group exhibition 'Interim' opening on 12th March.

Join us to celebrate the creativity, hard work and amazing talent of our emerging artists!
www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/index.php/ne...

Join us for the last Contemporary Art Lecture this term!
Artis & writer Dudley Dream Walsh will give a talk which argues that Y2K aesthetics operate as a seductive technology of the future that never came:

5pm Tues 10 March.
Book your free tickets 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dudley-dre...

On Friday evening, three ensembles from the University Jazz Scheme will be performing music from Wayne Shorter’s seminal ‘Speak No Evil’ album; the output of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers; and original music by jazz flautist Gareth Lockrane.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...

Mongolian horse-tooth saddle hilt, with inlaid gold, silver, and six-sided horse-tooth burrs flattened with gold-plated brass in the form of a honeycomb. 43.5 cm x 52 cm. (c.1250s). Ulaanbaatur, Chinggis Khan Museum

Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum

Emily Guerry (Christ Church)
5pm March 12
Arumugam 2.1, St Catherine’s College

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/mediev...

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Exciting exhibition announcement from Ruskin's Jost Münster, senior tutor, studio practice:
Sit Back And Realax is now open at Xavier Fiol Gallery, Madrid.
'The creative process is a continuous experimentation in which I constantly question & shift the boundaries of materiality & the media I employ'

☀️ Applications open for OVADA’s 2026 Summer Residency! ☀️

A self-directed month to develop new work alongside 12 creatives in a vibrant warehouse studio in central Oxford.

📅 31 July–31 Aug 2026
💷 £300 | £15 app
⏰ Deadline: 10 April 2026

Apply: https://bit.ly/4aX0Erx

#OpenCall
#ArtOpportunities

Happy Publication Day to Ruskin's Dr Kate Keohane and Dr Giulia Smith!
'Caribbean Eco-Aesthetics' is an edited volume bringing together voices of contemporary artists and scholars who are at the forefront of environmental activism in the region and across its diasporas.
@manchesterup.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to El and Gala currently showing new work in two group shows at Saatchi Gallery!

Elleanna Chapman (BFA 2024) and Gala Hills (BFA 2023) are in 'Good Eye Projects 2026' and ''Gesture and Being' respectively.

'Poor Form' at Sid Motion Gallery features work by Ruskin tutor Tom Woolner, former tutor Oona Grimes & BFA alumna Emma Cousin:
"Through playful, uncanny & psychologically charged forms, the exhibition explores how bodies - both human & imagined - are shaped by material, narrative & dysfunction."

Come along to the next Contemporary Art Lecture @ the Ruskin!

Abbas Zahedi | Dissociative Realism
5pm Tues 24 Feb

Abbas Zahedi works at the intersections of sonic & sculptural forms, exploring systems of care, thresholds of experience & the social architectures of our time.
bit.ly/Ruskin_ContA...

Slade Lectures 2026
'Brasilia: Planned Exclusion'
Esther da Costa Meyer
5pm Wed 18 Feb
Auditorium, St John's College
@stjohnsox.bsky.social

(Free Admission)

Abstract: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/slade-...

Slade Lectures 2026: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/slade-lectures

Congratulations to Ruskin tutor Anna Barham who presents a solo exhibition this month at Badischer Kunstverein, in Germany.
Anna will show recent works exploring how digital technologies privilege standardised language while marginalising diverse voices, accents, and bodily textures of speech.

Ruskin Shorts!! is back! A fabulous opportunity to view all things visual media by Ruskin students.

🎬 Mon 9 Feb
Arrive 2:45 for a 3-5pm screening.
🏛 Ultimate Picture Palace
Jeune Street, just off Cowley Rd, OX4 1BN

Everybody welcome! Approx. 100 seats available on a first come, first served basis.

Join us at the Ruskin for artist Hannah Perry's talk HARD LOVE! Working in sculpture, painting and audio visual installation, Perry will speak on themes of masking, social class, feminism and exhibition making in relation to her recent work.

5pm, Tuesday 10 February
bit.ly/Ruskin_ContA...

Pink Pandemonium at Meadow Lane Playing Fields!
The School recently gathered at Meadow Lane where Ruskin staff bravely faced Ruskin AFC (Artistic Football Club) in a long awaited showdown! Fresh kits, fierce loyalty and an alarming amount of enthusiasm made for an unforgettable game that ended 2-2.

Slade Lectures 2026
'Shanghai'
Esther da Costa Meyer
5pm Auditorium, St John's College @stjohnsox.bsky.social
(Free Admission)

Today's lecture (abstract) www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/slade-lectures-2026-urban-change-and-representation-2

More info on the Slade Lectures: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/slade-lectures

The Ruskin, along with TORCH Performance Research Hub, will host the 2nd Trans Study Day this week, on Thursday 29 January. The series brings together artists, scholars, performers & activists for an event with panel discussions, performances and a special guest!
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/trans-...

Come along to Ruskin's first Contemporary Art Lecture this term!
'Unprecious Instument'
Artist Rob Shuttleworth explores sound through listening and performance where playful experimentation and accessible making become the work.

5pm, Tue 27 January
All welcome!
bit.ly/Ruskin_ContA...

Read all about ArtReview's annual roundup of influential people in the art world, including the Ruskin's own Jesse Darling!

Last Contemporary Art lecture at the Ruskin this term!
Rafael Pérez Evans - Dumping to Release: Material Dissent

A Spanish-Welsh artist and educator, Pérez Evans will introduce his site-specific installation and sculptural practice.
5pm, Tues 2nd December

Free, book tickets: bit.ly/Ruskin_ContA...

This weekend!
Come along to the Ruskin Drawing Sale held at Fusion Arts at 15 Park End Street, OX1 1H.