Re-Fashioned and Feng Ho: New Exhibitions
Our new Making Space programme is well underway here at the Old Fire Station with two brand new exhibitions now up in our Shop and Gallery. Re-Fashioned brings together four UK artists in our Gallery...
Read MoreInterview: All Roads Lead To Rome
Chris Dobrowolski has been Visiting Artist at the British Antarctic Survey, has created sculptures from planes, trains and automobiles, and has been described as ‘the greatest living artist in the UK’. He’s visiting us...
Read MoreArt and Money – Oxford Marmalade 2015
Another day, another funding cut – in the age of austerity, it can feel as if the arts are in desperate need of a guardian angel. The demands are piling up: arts organisations need...
Read MoreExhibition Preview: HUE and Keep Looking
Here at the Old Fire Station we are busy prepping for our new exhibitions in our Shop and Gallery spaces. HUE, an exhibition exploring colour in its various guises will be taking over the Gallery...
Read MoreCalling Mr Aluko
I had the great pleasure of talking to Tayo Aluko, who stars in “Call Mr Robeson“, a one man show this Thursday 30th October at the Old Fire Station. Most people, if they know...
Read MoreReview: Sounds Emergent
http://projectinstrumental.org/about says “Project Instrumental brings thrilling performances to unbounded audiences” Sound Emergents: 5 pieces by contemporary composers and Shostakovitch. I was spellbound. I wrote poetry. I was puzzled. It was epic, in parts. Here’s...
Read MoreTim Key Q & A
In the run up to Tim Key’s return to the OFS this month, we pry into the world of this radio star, film star and performance poet extraordinaire… Tell us a bit about yourself....
Read MoreLongwave preview by Catherine Love
Ahead of his autumn tour across the South East, award-winning theatre maker Chris Goode talks to journalist Catherine Love about revisiting the 2006 production of Longwave, and how it feels to be back in...
Read More12 Artists; 12 Worlds
I’ve now spent 3 days at Oxford Brookes Interdisciplinary Art MA Festival, (entitled LOST/FIND). I have been lucky enough to meet and get to know several of the artists whose work is on display,...
Read MoreBarbara Kruger at Modern Art Oxford
https://38.media.tumblr.com/0cdf40a271c366d8f34c0f6efc05387d/tumblr_naofn91uY11rwu3h0o2_500.gif Barbara Kruger’s name first cropped up in my art history module at Banbury OCVC. A fleeting photo of a billboard, included in a lesson about pop art & post modernism; I was intrigued...
Read MoreZero Hours seems endless
During a week of frantic creativity at the Arebyte Gallery in Hackney Wick I popped over to the Yard Theatre to see a play which looked intriguing: Beyond Caring. I had no money, due...
Read MoreThoughts from the rehearsal room
Thoughts from The Fever rehearsal Room by Alice Malin
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