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SUMMARY:Colour Revolution: Victorian Art\, Fashion & Design
DESCRIPTION:Colour Revolution: Victorian Art\, Fashion & Design\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Colour Revolution: Victorian Art\, Fashion & Design\n\n\n\nDispelling our monochrome idea of Victorian Britain. Discover a revolution of colour. \n\n\n\nRediscover Victorian society as a vibrant colour-filled era – from dazzling dyes used in chic corsets\, bold experiments by avant-garde painters\, and the flamboyant use of nature’s beauty in jewellery. \n\n\n\nAs Britain’s industrial revolution gained pace\, new scientific breakthroughs allowed the Victorians to become increasingly revolutionary in their use of colour\, with new hues greeted with both excitement and suspicion.  \n\n\n\nThe exhibition will include fashion pieces – from Queen Victoria’s monotone mourning dress to the most daringly vivid clothing and accessories – and works by artists including Ruskin\, Rossetti and Whistler\, as well as objects from around the world. Our next major exhibition explores the vital role that colour has played in shaping our art and culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicketing information\n\n\n\nTimed tickets are in operation. Visitors and members are strongly recommended to book tickets in advance to guarantee entry. \n\n\n\nPrices: \n\n\n\nFull price ticket – £15.30 \n\n\n\nConcession ticket – £14.30 \n\n\n\nSenior citizens (65s and over)\, University of Oxford Employees & Alumni (Please bring your staff / Alumni card as proof of eligibility on your visit) \n\n\n\nChild ticket (12 to 17 years) – £7.65 \n\n\n\nDiscount ticket – £7.65 \n\n\n\nBlue Light Card Holder (Please bring your Blue Light Card as proof of eligibility on your visit)\, Jobseekers (Please bring evidence of jobseeker’s allowance as proof of eligibility on your visit.) \n\n\n\nUnder 25s / Student ticket – £7.65 \n\n\n\nPlease bring student ID / ID card as proof of eligibility on your visit. \n\n\n\nArt Fund Ticket – £7.65 \n\n\n\nPlease bring your Art Fund card as proof of eligibility on your visit. \n\n\n\nChildren under 12 ticket – Free \n\n\n\nUniversity of Oxford Student ticket – Free \n\n\n\nPlease bring your student ID or Bodleian Card as proof of eligibility on your visit. \n\n\n\nAshPass or Oxford Pass ticket – Free \n\n\n\nPlease bring your Young Persons ASH Pass card as proof of eligibility on your visit. \n\n\n\nCarer Ticket – Free \n\n\n\nAccompanying a paying disabled person. \n\n\n\nAshmolean Staff and Reciprocal Entry ticket – Free \n\n\n\nFor Ashmolean staff and volunteers\, paid Oxford University GLAM staff (Gardens\, Libraries and Museums)\, ICOM\, Museums Association and NMDC reciprocal entry etc. Please bring a staff or membership card with you as proof of eligibility with you on the day of your visit. If possible\, please book during the late afternoon. \n\n\n\nMembers ticket – Free \n\n\n\nEntry to the exhibition is free for members\, but it is advised that you pre-booking a timed slot\, especially at busier periods\, to guarantee entry. You will need your 13- or 14- digit membership number to book. \n\n\n\nPlease note a booking fee of £1 is added to help support the museum and cover the costs of staffing the box office. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExhibition shop\n\n\n\nThe Colour Revolution exhibition shop will be open every day from 10.00am to 5.00pm until 18 February 2024\, when the exhibition closes. \n\n\n\nIf you have a late afternoon ticket and wish to stay in the exhibition until 5.00pm\, kindly visit the shop before you enter the exhibition. The museum\, including the shop\, and will close at 5.00pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n\nAccess to the exhibition is via lift\, and the entire exhibition is wheelchair accessible. Handheld labels are available. \n\n\n\nThere is also a level access route from the pavement outside the museum to the front door. You can read more about the museum’s access at Ashmolean Access Guide \n\n\n\nDisabled visitors should book a regular exhibition ticket at full or concession price\, depending on eligibility. Accompanying carers can access the exhibition for free with a ticket-holding disabled visitor\, but they will need to book a free\, timed Carer ticket. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGroup bookings\n\n\n\nThe museum is happy facilitate group visits (including schools) to the exhibition. Kindly contact the box office on onlinetickets@ashmus.ox.ac.uk at least 3 weeks before your preferred visit date to check availability and make the arrangements. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelected artworks in the exhibition\n\n\n\n\n\n\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							\n						\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							\n						\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							\n						\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							\n						\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							\n						\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							\n			\n\n\n\n\n\nLeft to right (top to bottom) Day dress\, English\, late-1860s\, aniline dyed silk and glass beads\, Manchest Art Gallery. Minton vase with beetle design\, England\, 1870-90\, Ashmolean Museum\, University of Oxford. Lady Granville’s beetle parure and case\, 1884–5\, British Museum\, London. John Ruskin (1819–1900)\, Study of a Kingfisher\, with dominant Reference to Colour\, 1871\, Ashmolean Museum\, University of Oxford. Colour Revolution Gallery 05 – Frederick Sandys (1829–1904)\, Vivien\, 1863\, Manchester Art Gallery. The Great Bookcase\, 1859-62\, designed by William Burges (1827-81)\, Ashmolean Museum\, University of Oxford.
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SUMMARY:Ashmolean NOW: Flora Yukhnovich x Daniel Crews-Chubb
DESCRIPTION:Ashmolean NOW: Flora Yukhnovich x Daniel Crews-Chubb. Image: Left: 3 Immortals (ultramarine blue)\, Daniel Crews-Chubb\, 2023. Oil\, oil bar\, acrylic\, ink\, charcoal\, spray paint\, sand\, coarse pumice gel & collaged fabrics on canvas © Daniel Crews-Chubb\, courtesy Timothy Taylor\, London / New York. Right: Teeth\, Flora Yukhnovich\, oil on linen\, 2023 © Flora Yukhnovich\, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Ashmolean NOW: Flora Yukhnovich x Daniel Crews-Chubb\n\n\n\nThe Ashmolean has launched a new exhibition series of contemporary art: Ashmolean NOW\, which invites contemporary artists to create new work inspired by the Ashmolean’s historical collections. \n\n\n\nThe first exhibition is dedicated to contemporary painting. It juxtaposes the work of two London-based painters\, Flora Yukhnovich and Daniel Crews-Chubb. \n\n\n\nDespite stylistic differences\, the work of both artists links art historical inspirations with a dynamic and contemporary painterly language. The paintings displayed\, all made specifically for this exhibition\, convey a timeless passion for the medium of painting\, its materials and processes. \n\n\n\nFor this series of three exhibitions in Gallery 8\, each artist will explore different areas of the museum’s broad collections. Ashmolean NOW will feature their four very different points of view. The summer exhibition will be followed by Pio Abad in February 2024 and Bettina von Zwehl in October 2024. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicketing information\n\n\n\nVenue:Gallery 8 on the Lower Ground Floor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlora Yukhnovich\n\n\n\n\n\nFlora Yukhnovich (b. 1990) found herself drawn to the palettes and compositions of the museum’s Dutch and Flemish still life paintings.  \n\n\n\nHer large-sized paintings feature intense red\, pink\, peach and green colours and an abstracted painterly language. Circular forms and soft contours suggest organic growth\, while glowing light and dark contrasts create an illusion of three-dimensional depth. \n\n\n\nYukhnovich’s work playfully and critically explores different notions of femininity in the history of art and popular culture\, looking at contrasting stereotypes like ‘virtuous’ and ‘monstrous’ women. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Crews-Chubb\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Crews-Chubb (b. 1984) presents a group of large-scale paintings that take inspiration from ancient sculptures of deities and non-human figures found in the Ashmolean. \n\n\n\nThese ‘immortals’\, as Crews-Chubb calls his fantastical figures\, are created through a laborious process of addition and revision\, including drawing\, impasto\, and collage. \n\n\n\nThe textured patchwork of his canvasses gives Crews-Chubb’s monumental subjects a three-dimensional presence that\, as he describes\, ‘corrodes the boundary between painting and sculpture’. 
URL:https://theoxfordmagazine.com/event/ashmolean-now-flora-yukhnovich-x-daniel-crews-chubb/
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SUMMARY:Boundary Encounters
DESCRIPTION:Boundary Encounters installation\, 2023. Copyright Modern Art Oxford.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Boundary Encounters\n\n\n\nBoundary Encounters is a summer show of residencies\, projects and live events at Modern Art Oxford\, including brand new work from artists Valerie Asiimwe Amani\, Julie Freeman and Harold Offeh. \n\n\n\nConnecting multiple perspectives\, histories and interdisciplinary areas of interest\, Boundary Encounters acknowledges staff\, artists and visitors alike – as participants in a continuous exchange. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features an interactive display of projects and events collaboratively selected from Modern Art Oxford’s archives\, celebrating social learning experiences with creative communities living in Oxfordshire and beyond. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrank Stella exhibition workshop for local schoolchildren\, Modern Art Oxford\, 1977. Image © Modern Art Oxford\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease see important ticketing information below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicketing information\n\n\n\nPrices:Free \n\n\n\nModern Art Oxford is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00am to 7.00pm and Sunday from noon to 5.00pm. It is closed on Mondays.
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LOCATION:Modern Art Oxford\, 30 Pembroke Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1BP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Gifts and Books
DESCRIPTION:Books and Gifts is an exhibition at the Weston Library that explores the importance of books as gifts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Gifts and Books exhibition\n\n\n\nThe Bodleian Libraries presents Gifts and Books\, a new exhibition exploring the importance of giving and receiving books. The exhibition\, at the Weston Library\, asks what this apparently simple act\, practised for centuries\, reveals about human relationships and beliefs. \n\n\n\nThe giving and receiving of gifts is fundamental to human societies. \n\n\n\nDrawing on material from ancient Sumerian writing tablets to contemporary fiction for children\, Gifts and Books will explore the importance of gift-giving through books and across time and how this apparently simple act reveals wider interactions\, relationships and belief systems. \n\n\n\nGenerosity. Power. Reverence. Love. Struggle. Obligation. Visitors can explore people’s motivations for giving books across the ages\, including as a religious offering\, a mark of friendship\, or a way to strengthen political alliances.  \n\n\n\nOf the many intriguing items on display is a stunning book made by a young Princess Elizabeth\, later Queen Elizabeth I. She wrote out her translation of The Mirror or Glass of the Sinful Soul and included a finely embroidered cover framing the initials of Queen Katherine Parr\, to whom she gave the book as a New Year’s gift in 1544. The strategic exchange of books was a common practice to cement relationships in the fickle world of the Tudor Court. \n\n\n\nA guitar bought by the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley will also be on display\, highlighting gift-giving as an act of friendship. Shelley gave the instrument to his friend Jane Williams shortly before his death. It will be displayed alongside his manuscript of the poem ‘With a Guitar.  \n\n\n\nTo Jane’\, which reimagines Shelley\, Jane and her husband Edward as characters in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Love tokens are represented further in a First Folio of Shakespeare\, opening at a scene from As You Like It\, where Orlando writes love poems and pins them to trees and a 1950s program by computer pioneer Christopher Strachey that generates love letters. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition delves into the relationship between writing\, gifts and religion\, with pieces highlighting how gift-giving has been used across cultures and faiths. A Buddhist narrative\, The Birth Story of the Deer\, written on a set of palm-leaf folios\, exemplifies the ideal of sacrificing oneself to attain perfection.  \n\n\n\nA beautiful Qur’an manuscript that later belonged to an Indian ruler will also be on display\, as will a spectacular medieval Jewish prayer book and books of Christian devotion that include portraits of the donors who paid for their exquisite craftsmanship. \n\n\n\nBooks have often been commissioned\, adapted and regifted. A beautiful\, illuminated page from the Ormesby Psalter will be on display\, featuring two different sets of patrons: one from a pair of families whose marriage alliance seems to have faltered\, another showing the wealthy churchman Robert Ormesby\, after whom the book is now named. Like other medieval precious objects\, it was given and re-given at different times due to its value and altered to suit new owners. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition shows how gifts and books can be bound up in relationships of power\, politics and protest. For example\, it features the extraordinary Olaudah Equiano\, who was treated as property or even ‘given’ as a gift by those who had enslaved him\, but who managed to gain his freedom and write his own life story. \n\n\n\nThe power of the gift to encourage creativity is further explored through books for young readers\, many of which show the act of giving as both joyful and powerful. Writers including Oscar Wilde\, Patience Agbabi\, Shirley Hughes\, Philip Pullman and Zetta Elliott are all represented here. \n\n\n\nGo and explore the meaning of gifts\, exchange and the stories we tell about them. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is curated by Dr Nicholas Perkins\, Associate Professor and Tutor in English\, St Hugh’s College\, University of Oxford. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGifts and Books exhibition highlights\n\n\n\n\n\nOrmesby Psalter\, 13th century\n\n\n\n\n\nOrmesby Psalter\, 13th century\n\n\n\nThe Ormesby Psalter is one of the masterpieces of East Anglian art. This lavishly decorated book of psalms was a gift to Norwich Cathedral in the later 13th century. It has a protective ‘chemise’ wrapper made from animal skin. MS. Douce 366  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook of Hours (England\, 13th century)\n\n\n\n\n\nBook of Hours (England\, 13th century)\n\n\n\nPage from a book of hours\, depicting Jeanne de Baillencourt kneeling in prayer with Virgin Mary and Christ. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n‘The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano’ (1789)\n\n\n\n\n\n‘The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano’ (1789)\n\n\n\nTitle page opening of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano\, one of the earliest examples of a formerly-enslaved person relating their experiences of slavery and their progress toward emancipation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPercy Bysshe Shelley’s guitar\n\n\n\n\n\nPercy Bysshe Shelley’s guitar\n\n\n\nThe poet Percy Bysshe Shelley gave this Pisan guitar to his friend Jane Williams around April 1822. Along with the guitar\, he presented her with a copy of his poem\, ‘With a guitar. To Jane.’ \n\n\n\n\n\nAll images © Bodleian Libraries
URL:https://theoxfordmagazine.com/event/gifts-and-books/
LOCATION:Weston Library\, Oxford\, Broad Street\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 3BG
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SUMMARY:Joana Vasconcelos: Wedding Cake tours
DESCRIPTION:Joana Vasconcelos: Wedding Cake tours at Waddesdon Manor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Joana Vasconcelos: Wedding Cake tours\n\n\n\nExplore Joana Vasconcelos’ extraordinary Wedding Cake\, opening this summer at Waddesdon. \n\n\n\nWedding Cake\, a 12-metre-tall ceramic sculptural pavilion in the form of a three-tiered cake\, is a major new Rothschild Foundation commission from celebrated Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. \n\n\n\nOpening this summer\, the Wedding Cake will stand within a grove of trees at Waddesdon beside the 19th-century Dairy. \n\n\n\nIt’s a playful continuation of the history of placing fanciful buildings in gardens and landscapes\, which at Waddesdon include the ornamental Dairy and gilded Rococo-style Aviary. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit the Wedding Cake\n\n\n\nStep inside this astonishing work of art on a 45-minute guided tour and enjoy a unique\, richly sensory experience. \n\n\n\nAfter the tour\, you’ll have the chance to explore the collection of contemporary sculptures in the Water Garden at the Dairy\, including Lafite\, Vasconcelos’ magnificent sculpture\, in the form of two giant candlesticks made of wine bottles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I want people to have three different approaches to it: looking from the outside\, enjoying the surroundings from the different levels or balconies and rising to the top\, and finally completing the artwork with their presence. Above all\, I always thought of it as a temple to love.”—Joana Vasconcelos \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe creation of the Wedding Cake\n\n\n\nPart sculpture\, part architectural garden folly\, the extraordinary structure is a celebration of love\, festivity and joy. Inspired by the exuberant Baroque buildings and decorative ceramic traditions of Lisbon\, where Vasconcelos lives and works.  \n\n\n\nThousands of gleaming\, icing-like ceramic tiles glazed in pale pinks\, greens and blues decorate the cake\, all made in a traditional Portuguese manufactory. Further adorned with sculptural ornament and complete with the sounds of trickling water. \n\n\n\nWedding Cake is Vasconcelos’ most ambitious commission to date and a perfect complement to Waddesdon.  \n\n\n\nThe vision and imagination exemplified in the piece mirror the passion which drove Baron Ferdinand\, the creator of Waddesdon\, to build the Manor and the Dairy\, where he intended that his many friends would be surprised and delighted at every turn.  \n\n\n\nTraditionally-made ceramic tiles speak to the Manor’s world-renowned collection of Sèvres and Meissen porcelain. And the sumptuous decoration of the Wedding Cake reflects the architecture of the house\, itself covered in intricate finials and ornaments. \n\n\n\n\n\nJoana Vasconcelos\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVasconcelos’ Lafite at Waddesdon commissioned in 2015 by the Rothschild Foundation\n\n\n\n\n\nJoana Vasconcelos at Waddesdon\n\n\n\nVasconcelos’ Lafite\, two giant candlesticks made of illuminated Chateau Lafite Rothschild magnums\, commissioned in 2015 by the Rothschild Foundation\, stand in the Water Garden at the Dairy and celebrate the family associations to the world of great Bordeaux wine.  \n\n\n\nIn 2012\, her Pavilon de Thé\, a giant wrought-iron tea pot\, was the focal point of House of Cards\, a contemporary sculpture exhibition in the gardens\, and in 2016 her Cup Cake (2011) was exhibited on the North Front. \n\n\n\nAlong with the Wedding Cake\, these pieces showcase the defining characteristics of Vasconcelos’ practice. Her work is often playful\, manipulating scale to dramatic effect and using familiar daily objects in surprising\, charming and inventive ways. \n\n\n\nFind out more about Joana Vasconcelos \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease see important information below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicketing information\n\n\n\nPrices:Adult tickets – £15.00Normal grounds admission appliesPre-booking recommended \n\n\n\nOpening hours:Tours run on Thursday 10.30am to 3.30pm and on selected Sundays from 10.30am to 1.30pm.
URL:https://theoxfordmagazine.com/event/joana-vasconcelos-wedding-cake-tours/
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SUMMARY:Catherine Goodman: Do you remember me…
DESCRIPTION:Catherine Goodman: Do you remember me…\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Catherine Goodman: Do you remember me…\n\n\n\nDo you remember me… is a major new exhibition at Waddesdon\, showcasing never before seen works by Catherine Goodman. \n\n\n\nDisplayed in the Coach House Gallery and the Drawings Room of the Manor\, the exhibition focuses on a new body of work\, including a selection of her new paintings\, drawings\, collages and works on paper which capture the landscape of Corfu and its rugged\, vibrant beauty. \n\n\n\nFor over 12 years\, celebrated British artist Catherine Goodman has been visiting the Greek island of Corfu. Each visit\, she returns to the same\, isolated point of the island where a grove of ancient\, gnarled olive trees is framed by the bright blue sea and sky\, to draw what she sees. Returning to her studio\, Goodman translates these drawings into collages and paintings. \n\n\n\nCatherine Goodman’s art is rooted in observational drawing. Through this daily act\, the artist examines and places her personal experience in an intense relationship with the natural environment. As a result\, her paintings are charged with colour and gesture to create deeply atmospheric and engaging experiences for the viewer. \n\n\n\n\n“These works are an exploration of the relationship I have formed with a piece of nature\, a landscape that I have got to know intimately over many years. When I visit the olive grove now\, I have the sense of the landscape knowing me as well as I know it. I sense the trees looking back at me as I look at them\, and my drawing is a silent dialogue between us.”—Catherine Goodman \n\n\n\n\nA highlight of the exhibition is surely the monumental\, seven-panelled Frieze which depicts a grove of ancient olive trees framed by the vivid blues of the sea and sky behind. It will be complemented by a triptych of a single tree captured through the day – morning\, midday and evening – as well as further paintings and a suite of powerful pastel drawings. \n\n\n\nOne of the inspirations for the paintings\, and particularly the seven-panelled Frieze\, is Ovid’s great poem\, Metamorphoses\, specifically the legend of the nymph Daphne\, extracts from which are hand-scribed by the artist on the wall above the paintings. The mythological imagery in this poem\, and Daphne’s transformation into a tree to escape Apollo’s pursuit\, is a recurring theme for the artist. \n\n\n\n\n“There can be few artists working today for whom landscape holds such an intense and personal connection as Catherine Goodman. In this work\, she creates extraordinary visual encounters with trees that become more characters – old friends – than natural forms…the work is complex\, layered\, powerful\, and thoughtful and invites close looking.”—Pippa Shirley\, Director of Waddesdon \n\n\n\n\nAbout Catherine Goodman \n\n\n\nCatherine Goodman (b. 1961) is an artist based in London\, working between her London studios and Somerset. She trained at London’s Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts and the Royal Academy Schools\, at which she won the Royal Academy Gold Medal in 1987. \n\n\n\nGoodman’s paintings are held in numerous private and public collections including the National Portrait Gallery\, the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge and the Royal Collection Trust. \n\n\n\nCentral to her artistic process is the act of drawing from observation\, whether from life\, objects or the great masters and their works. Goodman sees her role as an educator as being integral to her artistic identity\, and in 2000\, she co-established the Royal Drawing School with HRH The Prince of Wales to address the increasing absence of observational drawing in art education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicketing information\n\n\n\nDates & times:10.00am to 4.00pm on Wednesdays to Sundays from 07 June to 29 October 2023 \n\n\n\nLocation: Coach House Gallery and the Drawings Room of Waddesdon Manor
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SUMMARY:Women and War: From the Fringes to the Front Line
DESCRIPTION:Women and War: From the Fringes to the Front Line\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Women and War: From the Fringes to the Front Line\n\n\n\nWomen & War: From the Fringes to the Front Line is a new exhibition to tell the stories of women in the armed forces opening on 03 June to 10 September 2023 at Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition will explore the diverse experiences of women who have been involved with all aspects of military life\, from the ‘fringes’ of history to those now taking on frontline roles in the armed forces today – using unique\, personal stories\, pen portraits of women in historical and modern roles feature throughout. \n\n\n\nSeveral objects\, on loan from individuals and organisations that have also shared their stories for the exhibition\, will go on show at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum for the first time. \n\n\n\nThese include an Air Transport Auxiliary jacket which belonged to Mary Watkins of Leafield\, Oxfordshire\, who took her flying lessons in Witney. She was the youngest pilot in the county when she began in 1937. Her story will be told with thanks to Maidenhead Heritage Centre and ATA Museum. \n\n\n\nA series of letters and a pair of officer’s gloves belonging to Rev. Elsie Chamberlain\, on loan from the Royal Army Chaplains’ Museum\, help illustrate the story of the first female Chaplain in the RAF\, whose appointment sparked protest from both the RAF and the Church of England in 1946. Her name was originally excluded from RAF lists\, and her service was concealed.
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