IDOLATRY (IF WE WERE MADE OF WATER)
a hunger burns – in the shade of yawning bowers bare arms slick with perspiration molten limbs in low blue light carve new skin and spread my lungs on tender soil; salt the earth idol built from nothing, will you raze the sky and ease my slumber while i am not loud you do not […]
Painting Poetry: Dia al-Azzawi at the Ashmolean
Dia al-Azzawi’s notebooks do not seem to contain notes. This is my immediate perception upon entering the intimate gallery, tucked inside the Ashmolean. I am met not with precise script in neat folios, but instead with inked pages, some reaching across entire walls, others bound into rippling conc
Behind the scenes of The Isis’ ‘Outlines’ Exhibition
Ahead of ‘Outlines’, The Isis exhibition, which is on at Kendrew Barn in St John’s College on Wednesday and Thursday of 6th week, Anneka Pink and Wyatt Radzin sat down to interview the Creative team. GROUP 1: Sophia Howard, Faye Song, InChan Yang Which elements of the process of creating a
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
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
Hilary Homecoming
Tuesday 24th January, 8-11 pm Art by Matthew Kurnia.