Visiting Oxford this summer? Don’t miss @modernartoxford.bsky.social where you can experience Unspeak the Chorus - the Turner Prize-nominated solo exhibition by Ruskin alumna Kira Freije (BFA 2011). Until 16 August. More info modernartoxford.org.uk

Thank you to everyone who visited the Ruskin Degree Show 2026! If you missed it—or would like a closer look at the practices behind the work on view—you can explore our finalists’ presentations at the links below: www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/degreeshow/2... www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/degreeshow/2... 📸 Ian Wallman

An update on the opening hours for the Ruskin Degree Show! Due to the extreme heat forecast this week, the Show will be open during the cooler hours of the day for the safety of staff, students and our visitors: Tuesday 23rd June and Wednesday 24th June, 9-11am and 7-9.30pm.

New opening hours for the Ruskin Degree Show due to extreme heat forecast in the coming days: Tuesday and Wednesday 23rd - 24th June: 9am-11.00am Images from the opening celebration. Thank you to everyone who came along!

New audio installation by Ruskin tutor Anna Barham is currently on show at Matt's Galley in London. It explores mishearing as a creative process, examining how meaning emerges as language moves between people, technologies, & material environments. Until 28 June. www.mattsgallery.org/exhibitions/...

Ruskin DPhil researcher Rafael Pérez Evans presents Horizontals, a series of participatory wooden sculptures for the sick and burnt out body, in conversation with Henry Moore's reclining figures. Commissioned by Wakehurst, Kew Gardens, as part of a year-long exhibition. www.kew.org/about-us/pre...

The Ruskin Degree Show 2026! An ambitious showcase of the outstanding creativity, commitment & hard work of our young artists, this year’s exhibition features a wide range of work across painting, photography, moving image, sculpture, installation & performance. 👉 www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/news/detail/...

Huge congratulations to Ruskin DPhil candidate Valerie Asiimwe Amani who is presenting work in the Tanzanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year! Valerie's multi-media installation includes a participatory live sound element. Visit until 22nd November. www.tanzanianationalpavilion.com

We are recruiting for a one-year, fixed-term Departmental Lectureship (DL) in History of Art, tenable from 1 Oct 2026. Closing date for applications: noon, 3 June 2026. Further details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN329/d...

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Thank you to everyone who came along to the launch reception for the Ruskin Print Portfolio yesterday! We are very grateful to Wadham College for your hospitality. The folio is available for purchase. Please contact Ruskin Senior Tutor Graeme Hughes for enquiries: graeme.hughes@rsa.ox.ac.uk.

Winner of the Emery Prize, Cerena Parkinson (MFA 2025) will present her solo exhibition 'Paradise' at Pembroke College Art Gallery! Private view on 15th May. Please find further info and rsvp to attend the opening 👉 www.pembrokejcrart.org/copy-of-2024

Bringing together artists, collectors, librarians & printmaking enthusiasts, the Ruskin Print Portfolio includes 20 printed works made by our fine art students & staff. Printed at The Bodleian Library Bibliographic Press, Oxford University, in an edition of 30. Enquiries: graeme.hughes@rsa.ox.ac.uk.

Many congratulations to Ruskin DPhil graduate Jinjoon Lee (DPhil 2021) whose doctoral thesis 'Empty Garden: A Liminoid Journey to Nowhere in Somewhere' was acquired by the Ashmolean Museum for its permanent collection in March 2026. @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

This week at @modernartoxford.bsky.social! LIVE x EMPRes dives into the shifting space between music, art and technology. ✨ Musicians & artists from Oxford’s Music Faculty & the Ruskin present experimental music, sound art, film, installation, and performance. modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/emp...

The Body in History Network TT2026 Term Card has been released. @bodyinhistoryox.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @Emilia Stuchlik

Ruskin's Jesse Darling presents a solo show at Oude Kerk, reflecting how value, meaning & social structures are constantly being redefined. It transforms a church floor covered in construction rubble into a landscape of playful sculptures made from reclaimed materials www.oudekerk.nl/en/whats-on/...

Jesse Darling: Godsworth - Oude Kerk Amsterdam

The Oude Kerk presents the first large-scale solo exhibition in the Netherlands by British artist Jesse Darling.

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Huge congratulations to artist and Ruskin tutor Racheal Crowther who presents her first institutional show at Chisenhale Gallery! Until 14th June www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Racheal Crowther review – unnerving installation attacks your mind … and your nostrils!

The Irish artist scrambles your brain by cleverly combining calming pastel pinks with austere military health units and suffocating smells

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LIVExEMPRES brings together experimental music, performance, sound art & film at @modernartoxford.bsky.social on Wednesday 29 April. The multi-room event runs from 6-10pm, presenting performances & installations by @theruskin.bsky.social artists & Faculty musicians www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-04-...

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Part of Normes Corps, the Ruskin's Jesse Darling will present a site-specific installation transforming Palais de Tokyo’s grande verrière into a landscape of eroded symbols of power, reflecting on the fragility of material and ideological systems while resisting the norms of a productivist world.

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Nouvelle saison le 3 avril : Normes Corps Lire l’édito : palaisdetokyo.com

We are delighted to share that Ruskin graduate (MFA 2025, BFA 2021) Deshna Shah will present a solo exhibition at New Delhi's Nature Morte! 'Poetry None the Less Science' explores fragments of text and everyday observations on canvas. 📍Nature Morte, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 🗓 1st April-2nd May

Grow Into It 🌿 A new body of work by Alice Hackney marrying together ecological and disability research through installation, sculpture, video, print and textiles 📍 OVADA Gallery 📅 26–29 March 2026 ✨ Free Entry More info: alicehackney.com #GrowIntoIt #AliceHackney #OVADA

Many congratulations to Ruskin's Dr Giulia Smith who contributed to a multi-authored volume on the Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams (1926-1990), recently announced as the winner of Historians of British Art Book Prize in the category Exemplary Scholarship on the Contemporary Period!

Ruskin Spring Drawing Sale! Fusion Arts, 15 Park End St, OX1 1HH Fri 13 March & Sat 14 March 11–3pm A chance to browse a wide range of creative works from Ruskin students, with proceeds from the sale supporting the finalists' Degree Show in June. Image: Naiya Ellis-Woodward & Aidana Orazgaliyeva

Second-year Show at @fusionartsox.bsky.social! Ruskin second-year students are proud to present their group exhibition 'Interim' opening on 12th March. Join us to celebrate the creativity, hard work and amazing talent of our emerging artists! www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/index.php/ne...

Join us for the last Contemporary Art Lecture this term! Artis & writer Dudley Dream Walsh will give a talk which argues that Y2K aesthetics operate as a seductive technology of the future that never came: 5pm Tues 10 March. Book your free tickets 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dudley-dre...

On Friday evening, three ensembles from the University Jazz Scheme will be performing music from Wayne Shorter’s seminal ‘Speak No Evil’ album; the output of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers; and original music by jazz flautist Gareth Lockrane. www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...

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On Friday 6 March, the Oxford University Jazz Scheme holds its first public performance with internationally-renowned jazz flautist and composer Gareth Lockrane. Supported by the Music Faculty, this event takes place in the Schwarzman Centre Recital Hall. www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...

Medieval Visual Culture Seminar Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum Emily Guerry (Christ Church) 5pm March 12 Arumugam 2.1, St Catherine’s College www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/mediev... @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Exciting exhibition announcement from Ruskin's Jost Münster, senior tutor, studio practice: Sit Back And Realax is now open at Xavier Fiol Gallery, Madrid. 'The creative process is a continuous experimentation in which I constantly question & shift the boundaries of materiality & the media I employ'

☀️ Applications open for OVADA’s 2026 Summer Residency! ☀️ A self-directed month to develop new work alongside 12 creatives in a vibrant warehouse studio in central Oxford. 📅 31 July–31 Aug 2026 💷 £300 | £15 app ⏰ Deadline: 10 April 2026 Apply: https://bit.ly/4aX0Erx #OpenCall #ArtOpportunities

Happy Publication Day to Ruskin's Dr Kate Keohane and Dr Giulia Smith! 'Caribbean Eco-Aesthetics' is an edited volume bringing together voices of contemporary artists and scholars who are at the forefront of environmental activism in the region and across its diasporas. @manchesterup.bsky.social