Latest OHOS Exhibition - Outlook Changeable

OHOS's latest exhibition at the Keep, Outlook Changeable is open all this week, 13-19 May.
Mon - Fri 3-7pm, Sat - Sun 11am - 5pm.  Free, all welcome.
Image shows two of the many visitors to the Meet the Artists event on Tuesday evening.  Sara Davies and Ellen Jewell, organisers of the Strength in Numbers Arts Festival, are studiing Bithja Moor's "First Nations Girl" and two paintings by  Clemens Steigleder: "Sister" and "Self - 4 years of Age."  The exhibition is part of Open Studios West Berkshire and North Hampshire.

Printmaking with Cath Baldwin

Eleven artists learned a great deal in a relaxed and enjoyable session at The Keep making monoprints, and using a roller press to create linocuts by learning about colour reduction and accurate registration.  It was also an opportunity to become more familiar with eco- and user friendly printing materials that are solvent free.  Thank you Cath for this excellent Artspeak event!

Reading Contemporary Art Fair

OpenHand OpenSpace is delighted to have a stand at Reading Contemporary Art Fair 2013 at Rivermead, 27-28 April.  Jon and Kate Lockhart, Julia Rogers, Robert Fitzmaurice and Ingrid Jensen installed a display of work, and Kate, Robert and Julia have been handing out information about OHOS's exhibitions, the studios and gallery, and the Artspeak programme of talks and workshops.  A great opportunity for networking and audience development.
www.readingcontemporaryartfair.co.uk

Weather, Art and Music

WAM, the Weather, Art and Music group directed by singer Pierrette Thomet, held a creative art day organised by OHOS artist Julia Rogers on 19 April.  The meeting at the Institute of Physics in Portland Place, London brought together meterologists, musicians and artists aiming to develop long term art-science collaborations for a second WAM Festival in Reading in 2014.  Several OHOS artists are involved, and there are also plans for  September 2013  for an art exhibition at the Met Office in Exeter , and some art interventions at the Royal Met Society Amateur Meterology Conference to be held at the University of Reading.
http://www.wamfest.co.uk/

A BigThank You to ClarksLegal!

OHOS has for some years been grateful to Antony Morris and the other partners at ClarksLegal for commercial sponsorship in exchange for placing work in the law firm's offices in Reading.  This year an exciting new opportunity has arisen - to place work in their Covent Garden office in London as well as the offices in The Forbury.  This funding supports the studios and gallery, and helps OHOS to carry on its public education work.
www.clarkslegal.com
Many OHOS artists provide work and help hang the exhibitions.  The image shown is Kate Lockhart's view of the Thames in London.

Happy Museum Meeting

Reading's Hidden History is being revealed!  Brendan Carr and Nicola Mann of Reading Museum are working with Oxford Road residents and heritage volunteers to prepare all kinds of interesting surprises about the history of the area.  Participants in this project, funded by the Happy Museum, are definitely getting happier as the project develops, and the plan is to show research results at the Oxford Road Fun Day in Kensington Park on Saturday 6 July.  There are also lots of ideas and leads to follow for further adventures in local history and culture.  This meeting at the Keep on Saturday 20 April also had a culinary dimension - Nicola had baked a large tray of gigantic and delicious biscuits to sustain the participants.

Dodge the Shredder!

Nearly thirty artists from the Thames valley area packed into the old detention room at the Keep to hear  Emila Telese speak on how to make successful funding bids. Emilia's lively and excellent talk covered every aspect of project planning and proposals, with a thorough discussion of budget preparation. 

Many thanks to ReOrsa for funding this session, in collaboration with OHOS's Artspeak programme, and thanks also to Janet Curley Cannon for organising it.  Thankyou, too to Julia Rogers for organising the whole Artspeak programme (see separate tab above for details of future events).
www.reorsa.org