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.
Review: Thamesis
It’s midsummer: night’s veil is at its thinnest, the boundary between reality and magic at its most porous. Thamesis, a queer solo show written and performed by Nathaniel Jones and directed by Leah Aspden, plays out under the blue light of the riverbed. Taking us with him on his winding course t
Review: OUFF Short Film Festival 2023
Set 1: Absurd and Experimental (Monday, 30th January) By Coco Cottam The first night of OUFF’s Short Film Festival did not disappoint. Themed Absurd and Experimental, each of the four films screened shared a desire to provoke. Personal highlights included DaVinci (Hugo Max and Bora Rex), a film th
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
Sophia Fuseli burned her husband’s drawings. Of the tossed sheaves, around fifty were spared and temporarily decorate the walls of the Courtauld Gallery. Each page is a giddy mass of penwork – confident strokes of graphite and washes of pale ink – so that Henry Fuseli’s (1741-1825) sketches