Portsmouth based artist Jeannie Driver was in residence at FILAMENT 14 For three days a week over three weeks in October 2013. Jeannie developed her work with paper documents, focusing on publicity leaflets that market Oxford's cultural scene and visiting galleries & museums in the city. Read her diary here
Associate members of Magdalen Road Studios Ann Rapstoff and Vicky Vergou were in residence at FILAMENT 14 exploring their ongoing interest in the theme of water. They spent time exploring its properties, and their responses to its sound, light and movement. A feed back session was held at the end of the month.
Painter Julian Dourado moved his studio/study to FILAMENT 14, and for one week it became a place for drinking tea, viewing unfolding hermetic landscapes, reading about mysterious cathedrals and thinking about perfect languages.
Residency review with refreshments
Thursday 25th April 6 pm
Undergraduate Fine Art students from Oxford Brookes were offered the chance to make work in Filament 14. Using the space as an artist studio, the students worked collaborativly on 2 projects responding to working from Magdalen Road Studios and its wider environment
"We aim to create an environment that the viewer is not used to, questioning their understanding of space. We are a collective that deal with a wide range of media.
Our ethos is not to simply stick to traditional media; rather we incorporate everyday items placing them in situations which they are not exposed to commonly. We aim to provoke a wide array of emotions that spark a change in the public’s understanding of what art should be. We work as individuals creating an organ; celebrating the diversity of each composition that is linked to create a living piece of art”
Lucas at work in Filament 14
March 2013 : Writing Residency the F14 team invited Oxford University creative writing students students Daisy Johnson Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Sarvat Hasin to use Filament 14 as a creative writing space. Kiran worked on an ekphrastic project exploring the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. The project will end up in graphic novel form, Kiran's poems set against drawings and paintings by Tom De Freston and songs by Max Barton. Sarvat Hasin used the space to work on a fragmented novel rewriting the story of Orpheas and Eurydice into contemporary Oxford. Daisy Johnson worked on a novel exploring the story of Oedipus and his mother Jocasta in contemporary times, as observed by the blind seer Tiresias.
The residency ended with a reading event held at the studios.
