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Art teachers display own work
3:35pm Thursday 28th August 2008
Seventeen teachers from Oxfordshire are installing their own artwork for a special exhibition at OVADA Gallery, Gloucester Green.
The exhibition, called Capturing Water in a Sieve, will go on show on Saturday and will be on display until Friday, September 12.
It is the culmination of a year's project which has seen teachers who trained as artists originally but now work in schools getting back to their own work.
The project is run by Oxford Brookes University in collaboration with Modern Art Oxford.
Modern Art Oxford head of education, Sarah Mossop, said: "Many art teachers in our region are gifted artists but because of the demands of their working lives, they may not always have the opportunity to keep up or develop their practice. This course gives them that opportunity."
Anne Brown, one of the artists who works on projects in Oxfordshire schools, said: "For somebody working in schools to be able to experience working within the contemporary art world through Modern Art Oxford and to be an artist again is brilliant."
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