BOLder
Our next event is the BOLDER exhibition by nine older women artists from the BIDDY BOOST group
Annie Rapstoff, Margaret Godel, Jenny Wylie, Juliet Eccles, Marie Darkins, Annie Wright,
Rhiannon Evans, Clare Carswell, Peta Lloyd
THURSDAY 30 January - SUNDAY 9 February
11- 4 daily
Please note there is NO PARKING on site
PV
THURSDAY 30 JANUARY
5 - 8
ALL WELCOME
ANNIE WRIGHT will perform at 6pm
'A Fable for Oxfordshire'
A 10-15min performance with Brookes Fine Art students
Essy Leeming, Lily Pyniger, and Christa Santos
A story concerning the current clash between Oxfordshire’s expanding built environment and the natural world, A Fable for Oxfordshire grew out of a community tree and hedge planting project with which Annie has been involved for the last three years - Garsington gets Greener.
BIDDY BOOST is a research and production group that meets monthly for sharing of work in progress, discussion on differing aspects of art practice, and to meet guest artists and curators.
We welcome women artists over fifty, with an ongoing art practice, living or working in Oxfordshire.
Led by artists Clare Carswell and Peta Lloyd, BIDDY BOOST began in 2022 and supports the development of productive art practice, skill sharing and growing of networks and seeks opportunities to show our work to a wider audience. The current group of nine artists is a mix of artists who have worked for decades, some who are returning to productivity after a break and others who have come to art practice later in life. Some have only recently left art education and feel that they benefit from continued support and professional development.
JONG
/young
JONG/young exhibition 13 - 28 November 21 FRI - Sun 12 - 5
The 'JONG / young' exhibition showed works by
four mid-career artists, Robin Danely, Juliet Eccles, Vicky Hirsch, Becky Paton.
Curated by COU COU Curator Clare Carswell.
Responding to themes in the stunning 'Young Rembrandt' exhibition held at The Ashmolean Museum in 2020, four artists reviewed their own early work and how they developed as artists. New works were shown alongside works made in earlier years when setting out. They were, in effect, exhibiting alongside their younger selves and in order to do so they became their own historian. After all no-one knows their story as they do !
Thanks to the Oxford-Leiden Link for supporting the exhibition.
HOME Books
CouCou hosted the Home Books exhibition of artists’ books, by Peta Lloyd, Annie Rapstoff, Clare Carswell, Rhiannon Evans
in May 2021.
The artists came together in early 2021 during the third Covid-19 lockdown as participants on Root-Home, a CREiA::: Creative Attentive Studio for a mindful art practice (online course) led by artists paula roush in Inês R. Amado in Lisbon. msdm.org.uk/creia
The workshops were created & piloted during the first lockdown 2020 :
“The experiential course focuses on deep listening and creative exercises which have been inspired equally by mindful art practices and relational domestic crafts. The project addresses issues of self-confinement, isolation and the need for tools that support a reflective creative practice and guide us, tuning in to the wealth of resources both spiritual and material surrounding us.”
Shared processes of engagement, immersion and development, as well as consideration of the space of confinement and the artist’s book, encouraged the four artists to find ways of developing a more embodied art practice and to make dummy books on the theme of the home, some of which are shown here.
CouCou would like to thank Inês R. Amado and paula roush of CREiA for their inspirational course and support of all the artists; art writer Hope Collinson for her insightful catalogue essay, and all the artists for their work, resourcefulness and good heart as this project came together whilst all were living through such a challenging time.
fragmented
dynamic
unbound
archival
folio
series
Rhiannon Evans 2021
FURNITURE UNDERTONES
still from a handmade artist's book
Annie Rapstoff 2021
