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Jan Scriven and Samara Hammond, Chief Executive Officer of AMREF UK, in its London Office Arts Society Wolfson hosted nine exhibitions during the year, featuring work by artists from Spain, Hungary, India and Cuba, as well as from here in Oxford. These ranged widely both in theme (from exploring what we are, as revealed by science, through the conventionally representational, to abstract) and in media (acrylic and mixed media paintings, pen and wash, and photography). Katalin Hausel with a group of ten artists including Wolfsonian Sonia Boue organized an exhibition related to installations at venues across Oxford, Movement, anomalies and distractions. Scientist Lizzie Burns’ Hidden Worlds: arts within science next explored the links between the two disciplines. Today these are seen to be following increasingly divergent paths, and this relationship was explored during a cross-disciplinary discussion between artists and scientists in October, led by Peter Bell, which took the ‘Art of Research’ as its theme. 83
Quite coincidentally, Jon Rowland and Soham De, whose exhibitions closed the Michaelmas series and opened Hilary’s, were architects; a bold use of colour was common to both. Painting ‘en plein air’, Jon Rowland drew on a number of locations – Venice, Scotland, France and Andalucia – that influenced his ideas on abstraction. Soham De’s work, on the other hand, took as its inspiration the exploration of the interaction between figurative art and abstract expressionism to show the energy within the colours themselves and the way that paint behaves when in motion. The Headington-based Bury Knowle Art Group held their winter exhibition at Wolfson for the first time. Reviewed by the Oxford Times, it included around 90 works, in a variety of media, spanning a wide range of portraits of animals, people and buildings, and of land and seascapes. Jonathan Shapley took landscape as the central theme for the next exhibition, Edgeland, a striking series of paintings and photographs that paid tribute to ‘the marginal, the unloved and the overlooked’. Trinity term exhibitions opened with a series of pictures by Oxford-based film makers Tim Wilson and Necati Zontul inspired by the travels of Edward Lear in Turkey and the Balkans. It included images of Oxford, the UK, Russia and Paris, where their use of animated and live action in their film work was reflected in the works on show. A stark contrast was provided by Wolfson’s contribution to Oxfordshire Artweeks. White monks – a life in the shadows was a series of ascetically beautiful black and white photographs by Francesca Phillips chronicling the everyday life of Spanish Cistercian monks. Taken over a three-year period, and including a number of portraits echoing those of the seventeenth-century painter Francisco de Zurburán, this astonishing exhibition illustrated a collegiate way of life a millennium away from Wolfson today. The exhibition year closed with Tricks of Memory, a collection of paintings and drawings by Cuban artist Sarahy Martinez, who commits to paper the recollection of long-forgotten objects with fragments of the sung and written word and symbols which are part of Cuban culture. The <strong>College</strong> has benefited from the generosity of some exhibitors, with Jon Rowland, Jonathan Shapley and Sarahy Martinez donating works. Paintings were also given by Cairene MacGillivray, mother of Wolfsonian Kirsten Norrie, and by 84
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Contents page President and Fellows
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Coecke, Bob, MA (PhD Free Universit
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Rice, Ellen Elizabeth, MA, DPhil (B
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Mueller, Benito, MA, DPhil (Dip ETH
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Mitri, Sara, (BSc American Universi
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College Officers President Vicegere
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Editor’s Note The Record keeps th
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Professor Paul Aveyard, Reader in P
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Wolfson is a creative place, and ou
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I thank, too, all the people I work
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(soon to be Wolfson) College, and h
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herself. Some of the remarkable fin
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