Past Exhibitions
Karen Forsyth - Drawings on Paper and Canvas
7th May 2009 - 14th June 2009
Karen Forsyth, an Oxford based artist exhibited her recent works – figure drawings in pencil, charcoal and chalk, some on prepared paper. Her drawings impress through a lightness which she achieves by an almost meditative movement of the line.
Prophets, Muses and Inspirations
5th March - 19th April 2009 (coincided with the Times Oxford Literary Festival)
A selection of drawings were displayed for the Times Oxford Literary Festival, fashioning connections between fine art and the written word.
Sir Peter Lely (1618 - 1680): artist-collector of the Baroque
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24th February - 31st May 2009
Sir Peter Lely was one of the first artist-collectors of Old Master drawings. More than thirty drawings from his former collection were on display in this exhibition, re-creating the taste of one of Britain's most successful artists of the 17th century.
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing: The Advent of Christianity in Art
1st November - 22nd February 2009
An exhibition celebrating the spirit of Christmas: the works on show depicted scenes from the Nativity to the Flight to Egypt and included drawings by Titian, Correggio and Domenichino.
Graeme Salmon: Coastal Landscapes
1st November - 7th December 2008
For the first time Christ Church Picture Gallery showed works by the Queen’s College physicist and watercolourist Graeme Salmon.
Still one of Oxford’s Best Kept Secrets - 40 years of Christ Church Picture Gallery
28th June – 29th October 2008
Forty years ago, on the 2nd May 1968, Christ Church Picture Gallery was opened by the Her Majesty the Queen. Christ Church’s art collection was now housed in a purpose-built, prize-winning gallery by the architect team Powell & Moya. With this act Christ Church opened its famous collection of Old Master paintings and drawings to the public. The Picture Gallery has since then become a fixture for every art lover within and outside of Oxford.
Treasured Drawings: Christ Church Curators Reminisce
28th June – 26th October 2008
The care, knowledge and enthusiasm for the collection, and its new building, by previous and current curators, has played a major part in establishing Christ Church Picture Gallery. This exhibition showed some of the major drawings of the collection seen through their eyes. The accompanying catalogue gives a personal and interesting view of the development of the Picture Gallery over the last four decades.
The Oxford Printmakers
18th May - 8th June 2008
Five years after their highly successful anniversary show The Oxford Printmakers' Cooperative exhibited again at Christ Church Picture Gallery. This group exhibition enabled the visitor to get an insight into the very interesting and diverse medium of print-making and how it manifests itself through a variety of artists.
In Arcadia Ego: Italian landscape drawings of the 16th and 17th century
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1st April - 24th June 2008
The landscape as a worthy subject matter arrived late in the art-scene. However, the personal, less representational medium of drawing celebrated the genre. The drawings in this exhibition included landscape drawings by Carracci and Claude Lorrain.
Italian poems interpreted: drawings after Dante and Tasso
11th March – 14th May 2008
Jacopo Ligozzi’s (1547 – 1626) drawings after scenes from Dante’s Divine Comedy belong to the most famous 16th century illustrations of this poem.
