Current Projects
18th October - 29th November 2008
'What is it Like to be a Bat?'
JAN CROMBIE
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A BAT?
18 October - 29 November 2008
Tues to Fri 10am-5pm; Sat 11am-4pm
Preview: Friday 17 October, 6-9pm
Artists talk: Thursday 6 November, 6pm
OVADA Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Jan Crombie exploring
the search for identity at different stages of life. Two groups of paintings:
'What the F*** is Beebo? and 'What is it like To Be a Bat?' span childhood,
adolescence and adulthood.
Social observation, child developmental psychology and an existentialist
searching for what it is to be human are evident interests in the new
work. The painterly processes that Jan Crombie has developed in her work
helps her in accessing an internal imagination, at the same time as inviting
the viewer to get involved in the journey by leaving the process apparent
and the details of the under layers visible.
Jan Crombie has exhibited widely including the Serpentine Gallery, London, Hooglandsekerk, Leiden Holland, Camden Arts Centre and ArtSway. Jan was the recipient of the Colle Verde Award in 2006 and in addition to lecturing in fine art is director of the Workshop Studios in East Oxford.
For further information and images contact Sophie Williamson on 01865 201782 or sophiewilliamson@ovada.org.uk
OVADA is supported by:
8-20th October 2007
'When
Reason lets down its Guard'
An exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper at the Said
Business School, University of Oxford
3-13th October 10-6 pm
Private View Saturday 6th 6-8pm
'In Conversation' event Saturday13th 4pm
The Said Business School is adjacent to the Oxford Train Station, switchboard:
01865 288800
An ongoing project is the development of The Workshop Studio as a contemporary Fine Art Studio Complex hosting international residencies and supporting studio artists collaboratively and individually.
Recent Projects
January 2007
HANDS ON - A collaboration with Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, and a group of blind and partially sighted adults.
July 2006
THEY CAME TO SEE - A group selected show in Leiden, Holland, presented as part of the Rembrandt 400 festival. 5 large site specific works were shown including a 5 panel freestanding painting Grandmothers for Peace.
May 2005
THE
USES OF ENCHANTMENT - Jacqueline
du Pré building St Hildas College, Oxford. Referencing the
writing of Bettleheim, the Cocteau film La Belle and La Bête and
the recording by the Vienna Art Orchestra, this collaboration with musician/
composer Pete Mcphail used painting and sound to alter the atmosphere
and envelop the audience in the glass atrium of this dynamic building.