Artist of the Week: Christopher Churcher
Christopher Churcher is a composer. Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m a first-year music student at LMH, and I write music. At one stage I might have defined myself as a composer and musician – I also play the piano, bassoon and sing – but it has become increasingly difficult to deny that comp
Review: Cassels’ ‘A Gut Feeling’ at Modern Art Oxford
I walk into the basement of Modern Art Oxford, the walls freshly scribbled all over in blue Sharpie. And What, the first supporting band to play, are already channelling riot grrrl plaintive. Their next song is called ‘Another Year’: the two-piece is like a long chorus and catharsis, a steady to
Painting in Circles: the Artistic Relationships of Freud, Bacon, Andrews and Auerbach
Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews walk into a bar – it sounds like the unpromising start to a rather niche joke. It was, however, also a reality: a scene immortalised in John Deakin’s famous photograph of the four men, alongside Timothy Behrens, having lunch at Whee
Review: The Golden Cockerel
A trumpet blares – tremolo builds, anticipation hovers. The mesh background drips starlight as the orchestra drifts downward in a minor key. A soldier glares at the audience, and I find myself in an enchanted world somewhat reminiscent of our own. An astrologer takes the stage. There is a deceptiv
Outlines: The Isis Exhibition
Wednesday 22nd February, 8-10 pm Art by Sophia Howard and Frankie Frazer.
Tote Bag Painting & Wine
Thursday 8th February, 8-10 pm Art by Evelyn Homewood.
Varsity Arts Night: The Isis x The Mays
Friday 2nd February, 7-10 pm Art by Dowon Jung.
Review: Six Degrees of Separation
“I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people,” Ouisa Kittredge tells us in a roll-credits monologue towards the end of Six Degrees of Separation. “Six degrees of separation… I find that A) tremendously comforting that we’re so close and B) l
Artist of the Week: Miranda Conn
Miranda Conn is a dancer and the President of Oxford University Contemporary Dance, who have just won Varsity 2023. Tell us a bit about yourself. Hi! I’m Miranda, a 2nd Year Maths & Computer Science student at Somerville. My degree is about as far from artsy as you can get, but I am also c