FRENCH ARTIST COMMUNITIES TALK 3: VAN GOGH & GAUGUIN
2026-01-24 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, OX1 2PH, United Kingdom
With Juliet Heslewood, Author and Art Historian
The third in a series of four talks examining four communities of French artists: The Barbizon school, the Painters of Pont Aven. Van Gogh and Gauguin in Arles, and The Fauves – the ‘Wild Beasts’ of the Mediterranean.
While living in Provence, Van Gogh heard news of Gauguin’s experience of Brittany. He looked forward to creating a similar kind of colony, a ‘studio of the south’ and his letters reveal these hopes and the names of those artists in Paris he felt sure would join him in Arles.
His brother Theo, detecting some urgency in his plan, encouraged Gauguin to join Van Gogh. The two artists lived together for only a few months – often setting off to paint the same views of the town and its surroundings, as well as neighbours.
Their output reveals more of their dissimilarities than any constructive collaboration. The talk will include much quotation from both men’s letters.

It's not just black and white: Renaissance and Baroque drawings in chalk and charcoal
2026-01-24 11:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-25 11:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-26 11:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-27 11:00 - 17:00 | Christ Church Picture Gallery, Canterbury Gate, Oxford, OX1 4EP
Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue:

Christ Church Picture Gallery

Date(s):

Saturday, 15 November 2025 to Thursday, 26 March 2026

Timing:

Mon,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat: 11am-5pm Sun:2pm-5pm Closed Tuesdays

Cost:

£6/3/0

Continuing the Picture Gallery’s exhibition series on materials and materiality of Renaissance and Baroque drawings, this show explores black chalk and charcoal. A medium that began to flourish in the late fifteenth century and has become the workhorse of drawing utensils. While the material and technique are the focus of the exhibition, it also offers the opportunity to display some of the Picture Gallery’s finest and most famous drawings, including works by Leonardo, Bronzino, Sodoma, Tintoretto, Carracci, and many lesser-known, yet remarkable, artists.

Further Information

Contact Details:

Christ Church Picture Gallery
Gallery entrance via Canterbury Gate at Oriel Square
Oxford OX1 4EP
Website: https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/visit/picture-…
Tel: 01865 276172
Email: picturegallery@chch.ox.ac.uk
Copyright & Credits: Courtesy of the Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford
Usage & Restrictions: For Promotional Use Only – For non-commercial use only

The Mystical and the Mineral in the Work of Suzanne Treister
2026-01-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke St, Oxford, OX1 1BP, United Kingdom
Join curator and researcher Laura Sillars for an enlightening talk on crystals, digital technologies and the alchemical in Treister’s work.

Winter exhibition of members of the Oxford Photographic Society
2026-01-25 - 2026-01-31
Members of the Oxford Photographic Society display some of their photographic prints
Mon-Thurs 9.00 – 20.00 Fri-Sat 9.00 – 17.30

Daphne Wright: Deep-Rooted Things
2026-01-25 - 2026-02-08 | Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, OX1 2PH, United Kingdom
This exhibition focuses on sculptures by Irish artist Daphne Wright and has been curated by Ashmolean director, Xa Sturgis.
Conceived in partnership with the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, the exhibition will feature several new works which consider the tradition of still lifes and respond to the sculptures in our Cast Gallery.
Daphne Wright works in unfired clay and jesmonite and has long experimented with casting.
Central to the exhibition is Sons and Couch, a life-size sculptural artwork cast in jesmonite of the artist’s sons, made especially for this show. They have featured in their mother’s moving and personal work since an early age. This sculpture of them as young men was created with their agreement and collaboration.
Also on show is her Fridge Still Life, which has not been on public display previously, alongside other works by Wright and objects from the Ashmolean’s own collection.
Several works by the artist relate both to the domestic and the Museum itself, and in doing so continue the exploration of time, memory and identity.
Two key Ashmolean pieces that speak directly to Wright’s work are included in the exhibition: the fragments of a young Hercules defeating the Nemean Lion in plaster and Rachel Ruysch’s intricate painting, ‘A Forest Floor’ Still Life of Flowers.

IMAGES OF AUTHORITY PORTRAITS BETWEEN IRAN AND EUROPE
2026-01-25 - 2026-03-15 | Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, OX1 2PH, United Kingdom
As we grapple with the possibilities and excesses of our image-obsessed culture, this free exhibition looks back at the way in which a specific kind of image – portraits – dominated the lives of three contemporaneous rulers: Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834), King George III (1760–1820), and Napoleon Bonaparte (1799–1814).
Juxtaposing portraits on different media from across Iran, Britain and France, the display explores similar and unique strategies developed to convey the personal and political aspirations of these ambitious leaders and astute image-makers.
Displayed for the first time in over a century are also two recently restored Qajar paintings and some of the discoveries made during their conservation treatment.

Pat Suet-Bik Hui and the Three Perfections
2026-01-25 - 2026-06-28 | Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, OX1 2PH, United Kingdom
Pat Suet-Bik Hui 許雪碧 (b. 1943) is a US-based Hong Kong artist. This exhibition showcases her work alongside others who engage with the tradition of the ‘three perfections’ 三絕, which brings together the three art forms of poetry, calligraphy, and painting.
The exhibition includes works by Hui, her contemporaries, her teacher Lui Shou-Kwan and others of his generation, as well as earlier examples from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Seeing Hui alongside these other artists will give visitors the context to understand her as both innovator and standard-bearer of tradition.
In this tradition, calligraphic brushstrokes are as integral to compositional balance as those used in painting. Likewise, images conjured by a poem and those rendered in a painting combine to create effects neither can achieve alone.
Hui’s modern interpretation fuses abstract and semi-abstract washes of colour and ink with simple, restrained calligraphy inscribing poems reflecting on a variety of themes, from love, to loss, to the pleasures of drinking.

Time Present & Time Past, Celebrating the Painting of Janet Q Treloar
2026-01-25 08:00 - 2026-03-20 17:00 | Wolfson College, Linton Road, OX2 6UD
free
Open daily 10am – 7pm subject to college commitments. Visitors are advised to telephone the college lodge before visiting on: 01865 274100.

Alan Howard Ceramics
2026-01-25 09:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-26 09:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-27 09:00 - 19:00 | Wolfson College, Linton Road, OX2 6UD
Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue:

Wolfson College, Oxford

Date(s):

Wednesday, 14 January 2026 to Sunday, 26 April 2026

Timing:

9am – 7pm

Cost:

Free

Alan Howard Ceramics on display in the Old Lodge.

Further Information

Contact Details:

Luisa Summers
luisa.summers@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Peter Rhoades & Emma Baldwin: Hand to Eye
2026-01-25 10:00 - 2026-02-07 16:00 | North Wall Arts Centre, S Parade, Summertown, Oxford, OX2 7JN
Peter Rhoades’s works date from the 1970s & 80s accompanied by Emma’s wonderful wheel-thrown vessels

Trinkets & Treasures Market
2026-01-25 11:00 - 15:00 | Quarry Village Hall, 67 Quarry Rd Headington, Oxford, OX3 8NX
New market for 2026. A market for second time around, pre loved, clearance stalls

Shadowlight Artists
2026-01-25 11:00 - 2026-03-08 18:00 | Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke St, Oxford, OX1 1BP, United Kingdom
A powerful celebration of identity, creativity and community in a group exhibition.
FREE

Oxford Improvisers Lengendary Ensemble
2026-01-25 13:00 - 13:40 | St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford City Church, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, Select a State:, OX1 3EY, United Kingdom
Stockhausen, serial music composer John McCabe and their own collective-chemistry-based music + more.
Free with retiring collection.

ASMF/Tinklings presents: Bach
2026-01-25 17:00 - 20:00 | The Lamb & Flag, 12 St Giles Oxford, Oxford, Select a State:, OX1 3JS, United Kingdom
Oxford based Dr Max Wong: the wonderful world of Bachs violin music.
Free!!

Angela Hewitt - International Piano Series
2026-01-25 19:30 - 21:30 | St John’s Garden Quadrangle Auditorium, St John's College St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JP
JS Bach – Weimar to Leipzig – performed by one of the world’s foremost interpreters of his music.
£7-£48/ under 30, student & carer concessions.

Edward Gorey (1925–2000): An Anniversary Exhibition
2026-01-26 09:00 - 17:00 | New College, Holywell Street, Oxford, Select a State:, Holywell StreetOX1 3BN, United Kingdom
A new exhibition in the Upper Reading Room of New College Library showcases the work of Edward Gorey, one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century, renowned for his gothic, whimsical and quirky illustrations. Email to book a viewing.

Brokenness and repair exhibition
2026-01-26 09:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-27 09:00 - 17:00 | Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxfordshire, OX3 0BP
Venue:

The Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University

Date(s):

Monday, 26 January 2026 to Friday, 6 February 2026

Timing:

9am – 5pm

Cost:

0

Inspired by the sublime beauty of techniques of visual repair across cultures, these works invite reflection on brokenness and why it matters.
In recent years, the traditional Japanese technique of repairing broken pottery using lacquer, often embellished with gold or other precious metals, known as ‘kintsugi’ has fascinated and inspired not only contemporary artists, but also pscyhologists, philosophers, scientists and archaeologists. But the idea of caring for something that is broken and finding beauty in its imperfection resonates much more widely. Whether we are living with the painful yet precious memories of loss, or trying to reassemble places of belonging from the remnants of abandoned buildings, brokenness and repair speak to our fundamental ways of being in the world.
Through sculpture, sound, images, and pottery, this exhibition creates a space of dialogue between Japanese aesthetics of brokenness and repair and those of other cultures. Each piece invites visitors to reflect on the complex, sometimes challenging beauty of brokenness, and the care and attention involved in repair.
The exhibition includes original works from Rob Simpkins, Katie Taylor, Johanna Tulloch, Dan O’Brien, Natasha Durie, Juliet Eccles, and Rachel Barbaresi, as well as kintsugi pieces by Iku Nishikawa (Oxford Kintsugi).
All are invited to join us to meet the artists and organisers over wine and refreshments.
This exhibition and reception was made possible through the generous support of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.

Further Information

Contact Details:

https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/…
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brokennes…
dobrien@brookes.ac.uk

Cha Hwa Dam 茶畵談
2026-01-26 11:00 - 17:00 | Gallery JIB, 1, Drewitt Court, 75 Godstow Rd, Wolvercote, Oxford, OX2 8PE
Winter tea and contemporary Korean art in an Oxford house gallery. Free entry, by appointment.

Block Printing Workshop
2026-01-26 18:00 - 19:00 | West Oxford Community Centre, Botley Road, Oxford, OX2 0BT
Come & create your own tote or scarf. Choose from 200+ carved wooden blocks. All materials provided

Choral Vespers
2026-01-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Merton College Chapel, Merton Street, Oxford, Select a State:, OX1 4JD, United Kingdom
A service of Choral Vespers sung in the beautiful chapel of Merton College. All welcome.

Jazz at St John's
2026-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | St John’s Garden Quadrangle Auditorium, St John's College St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JP
Dr Samuel Boateng and ADEPA presents an exciting evening of original music blending jazz, Ghanaian traditional music, highlife, and Afrobeat
Free entry. Advance booking required

Open mic nigh
2026-01-26 19:00 - 21:30 | Kazbar, 27 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HP
Open Mic Night, Open to all ages and abilities. House guitar provided (Keys can be provided too).

The Oxford Imps
2026-01-26 19:30 - 21:00 | The Jericho Tavern, 56 Walton Street, Oxford, OX2 6AE
Improvised comedy troupe.
£5-£9 (adv)

Compline (Evening Prayer by Candlelight)
2026-01-26 20:00 - 20:30 | St Peter’s College, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, OX1 2DL
All are welcome to join for a short, sung service of Evening prayer (Compline) by candlelight at St Peter’s College Chapel.
