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Oxford Scribes
A number of young OSE
Rex Bodycombe
(G, 2012-2017),
Wilf Cartwright
(E, 2016-
2018),
Salmon Lau
(G, 2012-2017),
Katy MacCrindle
(J, 2012-2017) and
Ceci Sutcliffe
(D, 2015-2017) were
involved in a collaborative project with
Oxford Scribes which was exhibited in
The North Wall in April 2018.
Calligraphers from Oxford Scribes
interpreted extracts from original poems
written by pupils from the School.
O S E N E W S
OSE Exhibitions in The North Wall
Co-education at 20
Nicola Hunter
(Asst Dep Head
(Academic)/Teacher of History of Art)
It’s rarely that I become jealous of other
people’s choices of profession, but I
certainly felt the green-eyed monster
was lurking closely behind me as I walked
round The North Wall exhibition,
Co-
education at 20
featuring the work of
seven OSE women who are successful
artists. The exhibits are small in scale and
certainly invite close inspection as they
have many delightful, and often highly
detailed aspects to them. There is a great
deal of variety: drawings made solely with
an HB pencil by
Lâle Güralp
(D, 2000-
2005), prints, ink drawings with wash,
textured oil on paper paintings, ceramics,
and jewellery. The 2D work ranges from
drawings of remarkable intricacy and
delicacy, apparently showing every hair
of the animals depicted, to the bright,
gestural oil paintings of
Lucy Smallbone
(K, 2001-2006), such as Pink Pool, with its
luscious pink sky. Two of the artists focus
on architecture.
Harriet Blomefield
(K, 1999-2004), has done a wonderful
series of watercolour wash drawings of
houses with blue plaques in London, such
as 22 Hyde Park, with no less than three
plaques: to Sir Leslie Stephen, Venessa
Bell, and Virginia Woolf;
Cecily Vessey
(J,
2000-2005), in complete contrast, uses a
strong and solid style for her drawings of
buildings, and in their stylised surroundings
a great deal of pattern, and sometimes
colour. The effect reminds me of Vuillard’s
paintings or Van Gogh’s pen drawings in
their use of pattern. Both artists include
depictions of St Edward’s and distinctive
features of its Quad. These two, and also
Miranda Stewart
(D, 2009-20011), have
a further local element as they all depict
Oxford in some of their work, indeed
all of it in Miranda’s case. She focuses on
Port Meadow and shows some highly
atmospheric small-scale works such as
Port Meadow in Flood. Cecily’s University
Museum shows a building which I visit
regularly with school groups and her
simplified façade does it real justice. There
is a series of mounted and framed shell-
thin ceramics with coloured glass by
Rose
Barry
(M, 2007-2012), and a wonderfully
unusual necklace, objects and ring by
Rebecca Wilkes
(D, 2008-2013), featuring
flowers, which suggest the completely
different directions in which a career in Art
might lead. What a great show to celebrate
20 years of girls being a part of Teddies
and going on to develop their creative
ideas and skills to make such beautiful and
aesthetically pleasing drawings, paintings,
prints, jewellery and objects.