Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme
A Creative Workshop with the Queen’s College Translation Exchange at the Ashmolean Museum (open to postgraduate students in the Humanities Division only)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Wednesday 10th May, 3-5pm
Join Polly Barton, Humanities Cultural Programme Visiting Fellow and Queen's College Translation Exchange Translator-in-Residence for a creative workshop at the Ashmolean, with Dr Francesca Leoni, Ashmolean Curator of Islamic Art.
This workshop will invite participants to explore the possibilities residing in the omnidirectional interactions between text and image. We will begin in the current Dia al-Azzawi exhibition, "Painting Poetry", with an interactive discussion led by the curator, Dr Francesca Leoni. Exploring al-Azzawi's unique and distinctive pictorial language - a fusion of words, images, translations and exchanges - we will consider the relationship between text and image in his work. Award-winning translator and writer Polly Barton will then lead a creative session in the museum, where participants will be invited to draw inspiration from the Ashmolean's public collections to produce their own hybrid creations combining verbal and pictorial forms of representation.
Participants should be prepared to do a small amount of preparation for the workshop ahead of time – we will share more details closer to the date. The workshop is open to all postgraduate students in the Humanities Division. No prior experience or skills are required - anyone with an interest in visual/material culture, poetry, creative writing and/or translation is encouraged to attend. Spaces are very limited, so please sign up early to avoid disappointment.
To sign up, please contact catriona.parry@lincoln.ox.ac.uk with your name, course and year of study. If you have any questions, please do just get in touch.
This workshop forms part of the TORCH Humanities Cultural Programme, in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum and the Queen’s College Translation Exchange. To hear more about similar events, please sign up to the QTE mailing list here.
