Modern Art Oxford is asking creative people from Oxfordshire to submit works on the theme of language and creativity for an outdoor exhibition this autumn.

Sign Symbol Sound will take place in September and is likely to be staged at Headington’s Lye Valley.

The show will explore the variety of ways in which we communicate, connect, and seek to understand each other.

The gallery is looking for submissions from all ages and disciplines and in all different forms from images and sounds to texts or movement and objects.

It will be co-curated by members of the volunteer team at Modern Art Oxford with creative associate Laura Purseglove.

Ms Purseglove said: “We’ve kept it very open - it's a broad theme and we can’t wait to see what responses we get. We are hoping that people who don’t consider themselves artists apply.”

She is working in collaboration with a group of Modern Art Oxford volunteers, leading workshops exploring the theme.

She said: "We are looking at how artists have used language in their work, at the power of language, the ambiguities, and even sometimes the failure of language.

"We’re interested in the way that being creative in language is something we all do all the time - from the time we start to acquire language as children.

"We are also looking at how creativity is partly born from a need to communicate and to form communities and how in exhibitions our encounters with artworks are often mediated by the language of the exhibition curators."

The deadline for submissions is Monday June 21 at 5pm and the exhibition, which is supported by Oxford Brookes University, will take place from September 4 to October 11.

Go to the Modern Art Oxford website for an application pack. Submissions should be in digital form only.