SPOTLIGHT: Paula Lucido (court waiting area)

Sequential images of 'movement' through the Oxford Town Hall are abstracted and moulded into an inter-weaving of fragmented time and space.

SPOTLIGHT: Tom Robinson (jury room) - OVADA's website images

The Town Hall is an archetypal institution. Its architecture and decoration were once the mis en scene for authority, though today they read as a strange mix of former glory and a parochial insignificance in the shadow of global precedence. Simmering amongst the hallways of administrational treasures lie low-budget fantasies of catastrophe in which the icons of order are engulfed from below in an unstoppable tide of full-fat milk.

www.tomianrobinson.wordpress.com

fantastic CCTV esq take on the world of the town hall. Show's similar interest in the work I'm doing at the moment. Tom interestingly takes photos and then films the still. It gives them that static grainy feel. He's then spilt milk over the images and watched them flood the screen. There's no point crying over spilt milk?

you can also glimpse the original status of the room Louis transformed for the evening...

SPOTLIGHT: Louis Jack (judge's room) OVADA's website images

Louis re-arranged the room:

Just watched this 3 minute wonder on channel4...

based on the turner prize. Found it really interesting:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/3-minute-wonder/4od#3142853

think it's on TV next monday (06.12.10)

SPOTLIGHT: Ima-Abasi Okon (court room) - my images for OVADA's website

This has to be my favourite of all the piece's exhibited. She's reacted to the space dramatically

http://www.imaokon.co.uk/

SPOTLIGHT: Fern Thomas (main hall) - images for OVADA's website

Struck by the contradictory spaces of the opulent Main Hall and the dark, hidden away Cells this work draws attention to opposite spaces, the roles they would have played during their history and the people who would   have inhabited them. Using the sound of a bell to fill both spaces, they are unified in one action. The Tingshas (Tibetan Cymbals) are traditionally used in Buddhist practice to clear a space and to reach into the four corners of a room. Slowed down in the editing process  the sound of the bell is drawn out, offering a space for reflection, and alluding to a sense of the Town Hall’s history.

[copied from Artist statement: floorplan]

a link to her work: http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=13344

SPOTLIGHT: Kirsten Linning (panel room)

OVADA asked me to take some photos for the website. Here's a sneaky peak...

You can also view Kirsten's work at: http://www.linning.co.uk/

SPOTLIGHT: OVADA's floorplan I designed

Artist's statements around the edge...

SPOTLIGHT: OVADA 26.11.10

I designed the e-flyer and poster:

Beautiful image don't you think? This is the first time Oxford town hall has opened it's doors to such an event. OVADA has co-orrdinated 7 artists to take over certain unique sites of the building. They have then responded to the space.

Christmas stalls are also being set up in the town hall. (OVADA have set up one with chutneys, sugars and biscuits!) It's a city wide event...thousands of people attend!!!

OVADA oxfordshire visual arts development agency

I'm on the board of directors of this art organisation in Oxford. I love it. I help in certain areas and recently I've come up with the new Stammtisch logo. An event that goes on every last thursday of the month, at the moment board members take on a evening at the pub and conduct discussions. (mine's next year where I team up with the arts co-ordinator - Lucy Phillips) The first one was a  pub quiz and TOMORROW is a discussion of art verses the science. Brought on by Roger Perkins: (legend)

http://www.rogerperkins.com/


So I repeat...tomorrow: 7pm, Port Mohan, Oxford! see you there?

These were the options I came up with for OVADA's event.

fishEYE lens...

Long Exposure

Accidental long exposure...quite cool looking!

Milk Magazine: My take of the BANKSY rat

Milk Magazine: The American Dream (Comic book store)

  

Milk Magazine: Gascoyne Place - the best roast dinner in Bath?

Milk Magazine: SU shop panoramic

Milk Magazine: KOMEDIA art.theatre.dance

      

Milk Magazine..get involved via the facebook link!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000741041184&ref=ts

I'm 'Milk Photographer and Illustrator Commissioner'


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Studio Photography

The Sofa Journey

It links to Vanessa's work. Our first meet up as a group we discussed each other's work to try and get an understanding about what makes each other tick! This sparked up this inspiration from an artist I'd met in Oxford. We want to create a stir...could it be something like this?

http://janewafer.com/art.php?p=2

Flashmob (pillowfight)

This one is apparently the first flashmob in Oxford..video is a bit long winded...but ya get the message!!! I particularly love the ending!!!

FLASHMOB

It happened in my hometown...flippin' hilarious!! Grab your attention?

A photo of a friend who participated...!

Jack's stunt in Plymouth...maybe we need to be as radical?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8094228.stm?ref=nf

I tried to see if I could provide it as an automatic video player...But I'm a numb-nut.