| Touching Art Touching You @ Banbury Museum, February - March 2011 |
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BlindArt @ Banbury Museum February - March 2011 Touching Art Touching You, a fresh concept in the visual arts, comes to Banbury Museum on 5 February. The exhibition breaks traditional barriers by encouraging visitors to experience and explore the art on display through touch and other senses. The experience challenges the notion that sight is essential for creating and enjoying exceptional art. The inclusive exhibition includes paintings, sculptures and installations drawn from the BlindArt Permanent Collection. BlindArt has gained worldwide recognition for promoting contemporary works by visually impaired and sighted artists, showcasing them side by side and challenging visitors to tell the difference. The collection has been exhibited around the UK and in New York. Cherwell District Council’s portfolio holder for environment, recreation and health, Cllr George Reynolds, said: "Cherwell prides itself on being a district of opportunity and this exhibition certainly proves that. It's an opportunity for local people to experience art in a completely new and thought provoking way. Banbury Museum has, yet again, come up trumps in putting on an interesting and innovative exhibition." Banbury Museum and the Oxfordshire Association for the Blind are working in partnership to encourage people across our region, including visually impaired people, to experience this unusual art first hand. Younger visitors inspired by the exhibition will also be able to have a go at a sensory Prize Trail, and make a miniature book of sights, textures, sounds and smells. On 25 Feb people of all ages can also experience the tactile books and pictures of award-winning charity ‘Living Paintings'. Address: Banbury Museum, Spiceball Park Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX16 2PQ Tel: 01295 753752 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Website: www.cherwell.gov.uk/banburymuseum Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm, Saturday 5 February to Thursday 31 March. Admission: Free. Please click here for press release (word doc). Please click here for press release (pdf). |
BlindArt Collection Donated to
Moorfields Eye Hospital
October 2012
Link to press release
BlindArt Permanent Collection @ Banbury Museum
February - March 2011
Link to press release (word doc)
Link to press release (pdf)
BlindArt Permanent Collection @ Hove Museum & Art Gallery
June - September 2010
Link to press release
BlindArt Permanent Collection @ RNC
June 2009
Link to press release
BlindArt @ ART LONDON Fair
2 - 6 October 2008
BlindArt Permanent Collection @ Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
26 July – 4 October 2008
BlindArt Forum
Exciting new Feature
Link to press release
BlindArt Permanent Collection @ MOMA, Wales
March - April 2008
BlindArt Permanent Collection @ Catmose Gallery
January - February 2007
BlindArt Permanent Collection @ Menier Gallery
May 2007
Sense & Sensuality @ Richard Attenborough Centre
December 2006 - January 2007
Sense & Sensuality Debuts in New York
October 2006
Winners of Sense & Sensuality 2006
Joint First Prize
Mauro Perucchetti
Nick Hornby
BlindArt Purchase Prize
Andrew Senior
Sense & Sensuality 2006
Bankside Gallery
14 September – 8 October 2006
Link to leaflet
BlindArt in New York
BlindArt @ Art Beyond Sight
October 2005
Education Projects
Sense2Sense Education Project
4Senses Education Project
BlindArt Needs Volunteers
to help us TOUCH ART.
Please email info@blindart.net for details.
• Sense & Sensuality 2005 catalogue
• Sense & Sensuality 2006 catalogue
• BlindArt Permanent Collection catalogue
• Postcards
• Tactile images
available.
Support BlindArt
Please email info@blindart.net for details.
