ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Eve Griffiths
Clip from ‘Thought of Sleeping’ Video installation ‘ADHD Zines’ Mixed media I created these pieces after being recently diagnosed with ADHD. Exploring the layering of images, sound and physical objects helped me to understand and portray an impression of how my brai
Icon of the Week: Camille Etienne
Here’s an anecdote that will delight Isis readers, I thought to myself, a story that could almost single-handedly qualify her for our Icon of The Week: Camille Étienne was accused of hacking Björk’s Instagram account to post a video denouncing the insufficient protection of mari
Christmas with Wallace and Gromit: A tale of hubris, treachery, and alcoholic neurasthenia
WARNING: This review contains spoilers for both Wallace and Gromit: A Vengeance Most Fowl, and for the real mysteries of the interstellar demonic lizard world order. In a world of remakes and sequels, the return of Wallace and Gromit is surely a sign of impending apocalypse. It is Christma
In Review: Into the Woods
Before the show even starts, the new production of Into the Woods at the Oxford Playhouse is charged with playful magic. The actors are lit in cloudy, white light: two share a short embrace; another paces side-to-side in deep focus; some of the company hold hands in a tight circle and start a
PRESSURE POINT: Liberals are fighting fascism with protractors
“I studied the arm angles … His arm would have been stiffer, and he would have stood differently – and, in any case, really, why would he?” —Andrew Marr. During the inauguration celebrations, jubilant at the power that was ascending upon him, Elon Musk propelled a stiff right
A peek into the woods
As I walk into the Shulman Auditorium in the Queen’s College I am greeted by curious eyes: I’m a strange new addition to the Into the Woods cast’s intimate ecosystem. Most of them lean into each other while listening to the directors’ instructions, giggling at whispered jokes. Others
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Lillian Tagg
‘Fresh Linen’ Oil on board, 30 x 30 cm ‘Fresh Linen’ is a study of maternal care and formative memories through fabric. Referenced from a found photograph, the work aims to capture the intimacies of formative touch and familial relationships. I particularly attempted to po
Beginning with Beauvoir: my philosophical coming-of-age
I became a feminist at fourteen, swept along by an unlikely combination: a nagging sense that something wasn’t quite right about our single-sex sex ed classes taught by stern Catholic teachers; a delicate objection my mother made to my father about Femen (“Yes, public disorder and
Icon of the Week: Coco Cottam
Coco Cottam is no stranger to Icon of the Week. A former features director herself, Coco knows the highs and lows of the Icon cycle far better than I do. But as much as we here at The Isis might wish this to be the reason why Coco is so well known across Oxford, it […]