The website for Artweeks 2010 is live as of 9th March 2010.
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2009 Launch party
May 11, 2009
Pictures from the Artweeks’ 2009 Launch party, hosted by Leckford Place on 30th April 2009
Sami Cohen, Principal of D’Overbroeck’s College – Artweeks’ main sponsor.
Sami Cohen & Suzanna Pressel, Lord Mayor of Oxford
Artweeks’ Chairman, David Attwooll & his wife, Tricia.
Planning begins for Artweeks ’09
April 1, 2009
The entries for this year’s Oxfordshire Artweeks, a three week county-wide sumptuous festival of visual arts, are in. And it looks like a bumper year with nearly 400 exhibitions spaces and over 1,000 artists participating. Now in its 27th year, the Festival expects almost 60,000 people to visit the workshops, galleries, studios and homes around the county.
Oxfordshire Artweeks, which runs from Saturday 2nd May – Monday 25th May, this year features several new initiatives and exhibitions. The Henley Trail, (23 – 25 May) is a trail of 20 artists open studios in and around the Henley area. All Saints Methodist Church in Abingdon (16-25 May), is joining Artweeks for the first time in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
Sponsors D’Overbroeck’s and Leckford Place School are running an art competition for their local Primary Schools on the theme of ‘My Journey to School’. Winners will be exhibiting at Leckford Place School (15 – 17th May) and will win vouchers for art equipment.
Artweeks’ members have received a unique invitation to design a wine label for Oxford Wine Company which will be launching a new premium, full- bodied red wine from an estate in the Languedoc region of France this year. They want a distinctive, artist-designed label for the limited edition of 600 bottles in conjunction with world renowned winemaker David Morrison. The winner will be announced at an Artweeks Fund Raising Dinner at Corpus Christi in 20th March.
The Prison Phoenix Trust, a Summertown-based charity, is exhibiting prisoners’ art for the first time. The work, created over the last two decades, from decorated envelopes to sculpture, can be seen at Prama House, 267 Banbury Road, Summertown 9 – 15 May. The exhibition prominently features work of an inmate serving a life sentence at Her Majesty’s Prison Wakefield in Yorkshire, as do drawings of illustrator Korky Paul, who collaborated on a yoga books for prisoners. The Charity encourages prisoners throughout the UK and Ireland in their spiritual lives through yoga and meditation, offering support through teaching, correspondence, books and newsletters.
Artweeks’ Artwine Competition
September 1, 2008
All Artweeks’ members are invited to take part in a unique competition which we are launching in partnership with the prestigious Oxford Wine Company.
In 2009, the Oxford Wine Company will be launching a new premium, full-bodied red wine from an estate in the Languedoc region of France and they would like a distinctive, artist-designed label for this wine. Only 600 bottles will be produced (and retailed at £9·99) in conjunction with world renowned winemaker David Morrison.
The template enclosed is the exact size of the label (8 × 7 cm); the background is white and all of the written information on the label will appear outside the box, in black ink. The design is entirely up to you and any medium can be used, as long as it is presented to us as a 2D image.
Images should be submitted to the Artweeks’ office by post, as a hard copy, no later than Monday, 5th January, 2009 and in an A4 format. Please ensure that you include your name and contact details on the back of the image. Please bear in mind when creating your design that it will need to be reduced to the label size (8 × 7 cm) if selected.
The entries will be judged by an adjudicating panel in January and the winner will be announced at a Gala Dinner at Corpus Christi College on 20th March. The winner and two runners up will be invited to the dinner as guests of Artweeks and will be presented with prizes of wine. The winning design will be unveiled at the dinner and the image will also form the front cover of the Artweeks’ 2009 Guide. Artweeks will display entries to the competition in an exhibition at a central Oxford location in April/May.
This competition and collaboration is the first of its kind in the UK and is therefore likely to attract a great deal of media attention for the winning artist, the Oxford Wine Company and for Artweeks, so don’t miss out—start thinking about your entry now!
BBC Interviews
May 23, 2008
BBC Oxford interviews, all files are in mp3 format and you may need some software (such as QuickTime or Windows Media Player) to play them.