6:28pm Thursday 28th August 2008
Seventeen teachers from Oxfordshire are installing their own artworks for a special exhibition at the Ovada Gallery, in Gloucester Green, Oxford.
The exhibition, called Capturing Water in a Sieve, opens on Saturday and runs until Friday, September 12.
It is the culmination of a year's project that saw trained artists, who later became teachers, get back to creating.
The project is being run by Oxford Brookes University, in collaboration with city gallery Modern Art Oxford.
MAO 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 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."
Capturing Water in a Sieve includes pieces in a variety of media, exploring themes as diverse as family memories, the effect of light and weather on landscape, a contemporary interpretation of ancient philosophy and an installation celebrating quirky newspaper articles.
For more details of the show, see www.ovada.org.uk and for information about the Artist Teacher Scheme, call course leader Rachel Payne on 01865 488339 or email rpayne@brookes.ac.uk
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