Launch Collaborative aims to provide a platform for creative exploration, showcasing some of the best contemporary art by early and mid-career artists, complementing our exhibition programmes with workshops and artists talks. With the intention of promoting, exploring and contributing towards new and exciting opportunities within Oxford and the surrounding areas, Launch Collaborative’s goal is to provide exhibition opportunities for local artists, at the same time drawing other artists and audiences into the city.
We are keen to encourage public interest in the visual arts, whilst remaining committed to artists’ integrity and strive towards the development of sustainable careers within the arts. We are particularly interested in utilising unusual exhibition spaces within Oxford city centre in order to gain maximum exposure for exhibitors, in turn facilitating greater interaction with a wider audience.
Recent Exhibitions:
Project Space Residency
Matt Clark
In association with Modern Art Oxford
6 - 14 May, 2011
Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford. OX1 1BP
In partnership with Modern Art Oxford, Launch Collaborative present new sculptures and work in progress by artist Matt Clark in the gallery’s Project Space. Building fabled narratives, Clark constructs spaces and objects that are wholly reflective and often psychologically charged and mysterious, that perhaps could no longer exist without the stories they embody.
Planning For Paradise
5 - 7 May, 2011
The Project Room. Jericho Community Centre. 33a Canal Street. Oxford. OX2 6HB
Taking contemporary examples of social activism and radical conservatism as a point of departure, Louis Jack, Peter Shenai, James Sutton and Thomas Watson, four final year students at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, will collaborate on an installation entitled Planning for Paradise at The Project Room, Jericho between 4th and 7th May.
An assimilation of works in a variety of media will deal with issues of cultural unrest, specifically focusing on discourse surrounding British education. Planning for Paradise will address the themes of critical impotence, authorship and the space of image production and consumption.
