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OX ART
Ox Art are a collaborative art making duo – Annabel Pettigrew and Rob MacPherson.
Ox was founded in 2012 through a collective interest in mythology, folklore, horror movies, science fiction and pop counterculture. Our work takes timely influence from the pagan Wheel of the Year, and manifests itself through a variety of different means, including sculpture, installation, performance, film, sound and two dimensional work. We employ a synergistic and ritual based method, or approach to our practice, whereby working collaboratively becomes a platform for conversation, question and response, combined making methods, and creates a larger forum for art-making to occur, in both a physical and metaphysical capacity.
Ox also create and curate events to provide fellow artists with a platform in which collaborative work can take place.
Annabel and Rob are Educators and Lecturers, with published pedagogic research and specialty teaching with the co-written ‘Collaboration Workshop’, taught in BA Fine Art at Kingston University
2017
November 2017
‘Extinct Icons & Ritual Burials’ ONCA Gallery, Brighton
September 2017
RCA SECRET 2017, London & Dubai.
July 2017
Ox Presents: Elemental Co-ordinators, Air:Display (a show made from kites), Hampstead Heath, London
2016
July 2016
‘Table – Ox ESP Experiment’ Tannery Projects. A TABLE special event including a performance ritual by Ox Art, and a roundtable discussion with curator Ben Roberts and artists Rachael Champion, Laura Eldret and Ox Art (Annabel Pettigrew and Rob MacPherson).
June 2016
‘Table’ Tannery Projects. A group show curated by Laura Eldret.
April 2016
‘DISC-US!’ East Bristol Contemporary. ‘C53H26L12FSOX’ CD single.
RCA SECRET 2016 London & Dubai.
January 2016
‘The Bothy Project’ Ox On Eigg – Isle Land Life. Psychic Experiments and Site Worship is the Ox Art residency at Sweeney’s Bothy, on the Isle of Eigg, selected and hosted by The Bothy Project.
2015
December 2015
‘Earth Yule’ A group shop for all NIASH Protagonists residency 2015, curated by Ox, Palace Court, Hastings
November 2015
‘Human Pylon’, An experimental performance workshop, exploring Oskar Schlemmer’s ‘Metal and Stick Dances’,hosted by Ox for ANTI-UNIVERSITY NOW!, New Independent Art School, Hastings
October 2015
Ox Presents…. Elemental Collaboration ‘Pylon’ Live Transmission Event, Stanley Picker Gallery, London
September 2015
Apparitions: The Marble Cave Of Gadime The Appearance and Disappearance of London Art in The Marble Cave of Gadime, Kosovo
March 2015
March 2015
RCA Secret Show 2015 We were very happy to be nominated for the annual RCA fund raising exhibition. Royal College of Art, Dyson Building, London
2014
December 2014
OX Presents: The Nine Billion Names Of God. A group show hosted and curated by OX.
The Galley On The Corner, London.
June 2014
Wand Ritual and Blessing, Hampstead Heath, London
2013
December 2013
Centre For Useless Splendour: Reading Room. Commission by Centre For Useless Splendour for the Publications launch, curated by Sarah Jones. Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames
November 2013
The Gathering, Group show, curated by Jack Duplock, Gallery CAG MyToro, Hamburg, Germany
September 2013
#23Michaeljordan, Kingston University MA Show 2013. Curated by Tom Morton & Cullinan&Richards.
Ox Presents: Procession, An installation in three parts. MA Group Show, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames
August 2013
OX Presents: Procession, Collaborative performance event, hosted by OX, Hampstead Heath, London
April – May 2013
OX Presents: Ostara, curatorial event and collaborative show, hosted by OX. Knight’s Park Exhibition Space & The Swan, Kingston upon Thames
January 2013
Hamlet, Group show, Centre for Useless Splendour, Kingston upon Thames
2012
December 2012
Ox Blood: Part 4, Sighs from the Depths, The Swan, Kingston upon Thames
October 2012
Ox Blood: Part 1, The Swan, Kingston upon Thames
TEACHING
Annabel Pettigrew
Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art and workshop leader for the ‘Collaboration Workshop’ at Kingston University
Rob MacPherson
Lecturer in Art and Design at Wiltshire College
Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art and workshop leader for the ‘Collaboration Workshop’ at Kingston University
EDUCATION
Annabel Pettigrew
MA Fine Art with PGCert in Higher Education, Kingston University, 2011-2013
BA Fine Art, Kingston University, 2003-2006
Rob MacPherson
MA Fine Art with PGCert in Higher Education, Kingston University, 2011-2013
BA Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University, 2002-2005