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Last Contemporary Art lecture at the Ruskin this term! Rafael Pérez Evans - Dumping to Release: Material Dissent A Spanish-Welsh artist and educator, Pérez Evans will introduce his site-specific installation and sculptural practice. 5pm, Tues 2nd December Free, book tickets: bit.ly/Ruskin_ContA...

This weekend! Come along to the Ruskin Drawing Sale held at Fusion Arts at 15 Park End Street, OX1 1H.

Onyeka Igwe, Associate Professor at the Ruskin, is the recipient of the Jarman Award 2025!✨ Onyeka shares the prestigious annual award with Morgan Quaintance as they were considered "equally deserving of the award, with significant bodies of work at the forefront of artists’ moving image practice."

Opening on Thursday, 7-9pm at OVADA @ovadagallery.bsky.social! 'Manual for the Overlooked' is a group show by Ruskin third-year students Z Forbes, Ben Holland, Isabelle Oxford & Amelia Sleight, their work a reflection of the strong connection between them. Also open 28-29 November, 10am-4pm.

The talents of our Masters composers and performers will be on display on Wednesday 3 December at 7pm in the Holywell Music Room. Join us for this special evening of collaboration. Free entry! www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/master...

The Ruskin Drawing Sale Returns! Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th November, 10am–3pm 📍Fusion Arts, 15 Park End St, OX1 1HH Browse drawings, paintings, prints, stickers and more from Ruskin BFA artists. A percentage of each purchase will go to supporting the Degree Show in June, open to the public!

This year @torchoxford.bsky.social Performance Research Hub hosts a series of study days exploring the role of trans and queer voices in performance and performance research. 👇 Sign up for the first study day on Monday 24 November at @theruskin.bsky.social www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/trans-...

Join us for our next Contemporary Art Lecture at the Ruskin! Artist and writer Basyma Saad will speak on the themes of realism, surplus, and mourning in relation to her recent work. 5pm, Tues 18 November More info and book your (free!) tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/basyma-saa...

TORCH Performance Research Hub will host a series of study days this year, bringing together artists, scholars, performers & activists to explore the role of trans + queer voices in performance. The first day is 24th Nov at the Ruskin. More info and registration: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/trans-...

Happy Halloween from the Ruskin!

The Hole in the Whole is currently on show at Eastside Projects in Birmingham featuring work by Ashkan Sepahvand (DPhil 2025), Valerie Asiimwe Amani (current DPhil student) and Phoebe Collings-James, curated by Harmanpreet Randhawa (BFA 2023). Until 6th December. eastsideprojects.org/projects/the...

We are delighted to welcome Emii Alrai for our next Contemporary Art Lecture at the Ruskin! An artist working in sculpture and installation, Alrai will speak on her practice exploring artefacts, the Western Museum construct and memory. 5pm, Tues 4th November. Info & tickets: bit.ly/Ruskin_ContA...

An exciting event at @modernartoxford.bsky.social celebrating the Platform Graduate Award! Enjoy art, music and conversation and catch performances by recent Ruskin graduates Ella Soni and Jarad Jackson. Thurs 23 Oct, 6.30-10pm More info: modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/liv...

Arturo Soto (DPhil 2021) publishes new photobook, Border Documents, drawing on his father's memories of Juárez (Mexico) and El Paso (USA). A personal archive of ordinary events but most importantly it stands apart from media coverage that focuses on drug trafficking, illegal migration & corruption.

Read all about what Ruskin Fine Art student Ash Capon learned at @modernartoxford.bsky.social during a 5-week internship!

Visiting the artfairs in London this week? Catch work by recent Ruskin graduates Paul Majek (BFA 2023) at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair and Eunjo Lee (MFA 2024) at Frieze!

Join us at the Ruskin for a talk by multidisciplinary artist Sophie Cundale! Sophie will speak on the trajectory of an artist's practice through the lens of shapeshifting, role play and fluidity. 5pm, Tuesday 21st October Free and open to all, book your tickets here: bit.ly/Ruskin_ContA...

Ruskin's Onyeka Igwe is now showing new work at Tate Britain as part of the Art Now series. Consisting of film, projected slides & sculpture, 'our generous mother' tells the story of the University of Ibadan, the oldest degree-awarding institution in Nigeria. Until 17 May. More info at tate.org.uk

The Platform Graduate Award exhibtion at @modernartoxford.bsky.social is now open! 'This is Really Happening' features work by Ruskin 2025 BFA graduate Ella Soni:

Thank you to all who came along to the Degree Show this year! It's a fantastic showcase of our amazingly talented students' work - we are thrilled that so many of you were interested in taking a look! You can view a presentation of each artist on the Ruskin website: www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/news/detail/...

Visit the Ruskin Degree Show! Explore painting, photography, video, sculpture, installation, and performance, and meet our talented emerging creatives. Until Wednesday 25th June, 12-5pm. 128 Bullingdon Rd, Oxford OX4 1QP Image from the Private View. Thank you to everyone who came along!

We were delighted to welcome Oxford University's new Chancellor Lord Hague of Richmond to the Ruskin Degree Show this afternoon! Keen to highlight the importance of the arts and humanities at the University, the Chancellor listened with interest as students talked about their work. @ox.ac.uk

A sneak peek at the Ruskin Degree Show 2025! We can't wait to welcome you to the opening of our BFA and MFA Degree Show, celebrating the outstanding creativity & hard work of our young artists: Friday 20th June, Private View 7-10pm Sat-Sun 12-6pm Mon-Wed 12-5pm 👉 www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/news/detail/...

History of Art Study Day Image & Object: Reproduction 2 - 5pm | Thu 26 June Location: Department of History of Art, Littlegate House Visit below and Book your place! www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/image-... Speakers: Geoffrey Batchen, Geraldine Johnson, Brigid von Preussen, Vibe Nielsen, Paul Taylor

Introducing the Ruskin 2025 graduating BFA & MFA cohort! Come along to the Degree Show to see their amazing work: Private View Friday 20th June 7-10pm 21st-22nd June 12-6pm 23rd-25th June, 12-5pm 128 Bullingdon Road, Oxford OX4 1QP Welcome! More info 👉 www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/news/detail/...

Our first years are very busy installing their Prelims Show today!

We are thrilled to announce the Ruskin BFA & MFA Degree Show, opening on Friday 20th June! Private View 7-10pm Opening hours 21st - 25th June: • Sat - Sun: 12-6pm • Mon - Wed: 12-5pm 128 Bullingdon Road, Oxford OX4 1QP. Accessibility info: www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/128-bullingd...

Last Contemporary Art Lecture this academic year! Don't miss Tamar Clarke-Brown's talk at 5pm, Friday 16 May. Free and open to all, tickets at the link 👉 bit.ly/Ruskin_ContA...

Tamar Clarke-Brown: Art, Civics & Technology Clarke-Brown will speak on the role of civic frameworks & radical pedagogy in shaping contemporary art practice, sharing recent projects commissioned and developed with Serpentine Arts Technologies. Join us on Friday 16 May, 5pm! bit.ly/Ruskin_ContA...

Interim, a group show by Ruskin's 2nd year cohort, is now open! Tonight, visitors can catch a programme of performances featuring artists from the whole School. Come along to Fusion Arts at Park End Street, 6-9pm!

The Ruskin Drawing Sale is back! Sat 10 May, 10am - 4pm Sun 11 May, 10am - 2pm Fusion Arts, 15 Park End St, OX1 1HH Explore a wide range of creative works for sale - drawings, paintings, prints, stickers, and much more. Proceeds will go towards the finalists' Degree Show in June, open to the public

Tina M. Campt: Afterimages and the Art of Grieving Join us for a guest lecture by the legendary art historian and theorist on Tuesday 13th May, 4pm! Open to all. Book your free ticket 👉 bit.ly/4cS7wXK

Opening tonight! Come along to Interim, a groupshow by Ruskin's BFA2 students.

Ruskin's 2nd years are busy this week installing their group show opening on 8 May! "Stuck in flux and constantly evolving, we wanted to use this exhibition to mark the interim period of our degree. Possibility stretches in front of us. We don't know what is next, so we appreciate the now!"

Join Jen DeNike & Giulia Astesani on 3 May for a performative lecture and conversation designed to collaboratively think through an (inherently queer) epistolary form. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/whats-...

What's In A Letter: Queer Temporalities. Listen to Ruskin DPhil researcher Jen DeNike on local BBC radio tonight at 9pm interviewed in the show Out with Kathy to hear all about Jen's performance lecture & exhibition in collaboration with Giulia Astesani, on Sat 3 May! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

"What if, rather than falling into ecstasy, we choose it—we become it?" Join Ruskin DPhil researcher Jen DeNike & scholar and artist Giulia Astesani for a performance lecture on Sat 3 May! Part of a project exploring queer and feminist history. More info and free tickets 👉 bit.ly/42Z1CzF

Art Film & Music Event! An annual collab between Ruskin and @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social sees filmmakers work with composers to create a series of art film ‘shorts’. Come along to the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building on Fri 2 May for a showcase of 8 projects: www.ticketsoxford.com/events/art-f...

On Thursday, join EMPRES & electronic music composer & visual artist LeafcutterJohn for an immersive performance. Alongside this are works composed, presented & curated by Music & @theruskin.bsky.social students, responding to @modernartoxford.bsky.social exhibition of Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself

🗓️Make a note for the 2025 Terra Lectures in American Art! Unsettled Ground: Western Landscapes, Indigenous Sovereignty and the Spaces of US Photography Prof Erin Pauwels (Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art) Free & open to all Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College 5-6pm

1 MAY: Special Lecture & Reception Join us @lincoln.ox.ac.uk for Prof JP Park's lecture on his recent publication 'The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China' 📖 5pm at Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Oxford www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/the-fo... @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Edmund de Waal in conversation with Hermione Lee. A rare chance to hear a world-renowned artist & bestselling author discuss memoir, history, and materiality. 📅 19 May 2025 | 17:30 📍 @WolfsonCollege 🎟️ FREE – Register now: https://shorturl.at/NUdNL

This week! Join Ruskin BFA finalists for the opening of their group show High Noon at Greatorex Street in London on Friday 28th March, 6-9pm. Bliss Ashley Eve Aspland Jessie Buers Jarad Jackson Milly Jackson Connor Manship Aparna Mitra Ella Soni Lola Wendon Nat Westwood

Join Ruskin senior tutor Lee Triming for the opening of his solo show at No Show Space in London! past perfect, imperfect, imperfect, subjunctive, subjunctive, perfect, present, present, imperfect, imperfect, present, present Private View Thursday 27 March, 6.30-8.30pm More info 👉 noshowspace.com

New video work by Ruskin MFA graduate Eunjo Lee (2024) at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art! Moving into darker territories, the work explores how we witness, understand, and ultimately transcend pain. PV: 20th March, 6–9 pm Until 4th May More info 👉 goldsmithscca.art/exhibition/e...

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt has joined experts from the creative and AI industries to form the Oxford Consultation on Copyright and AI. The group warns that proposed UK copyright reforms could harm the creative sector while favouring big tech. Read more: www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Something exciting's happening in East Oxford! Let’s Build a Town! is a community-focused project inviting young people to build an ideal city through music and performance. Come and see their performance: musicatoxford.com/whats-on/let... Read: magd.ox.ac.uk/news/lets-bu...

Exciting news! A film by Daria Martin, Professor of Art at the Ruskin, is currently on view at Tate Modern alongside sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. 'In the Palace', acquired by the Tate in 2007, constituted Daria Martin’s MFA thesis, and was inspired by Giacometti's work. Until 30 November 2025.

New solo show by Ruskin Senior Tutor Jost Münster at Kunstraum/ kleine Galerie in Bad Waldsee, Germany opening next week! 9 March-20 April "Painting & material meet, engaging us in a multi-voiced conversation about the relationship between old and new, visible and invisible, real and painted space"