An open call from Oxfordshire Artweeks for Oxford photography for May exhibition
Oxfordshire Artweeks is delighted to be joining forces with Oxford Festival of the Arts and Photo Oxford to present a photography exhibition, What is your Oxford? during the first week of the Artweeks festival 2025 (3-11 May).
The exhibition, at Pembroke College Art Gallery will include photographs chosen from submissions to this open call (see details below).
We are asking for still photos that capture what our city means, or is, to you, or as seen through your eyes. Stills can be abstract, figurative, or cityscape, featuring people, wildlife, objects, nature, or can be representational.
This call is open to photographers at all levels. We shall also include a children’s section.
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Medium: still photography
Applicants should be from, or residing in Oxford/shire, or have a special connection to the city. Both colour and monochrome are accepted.
No more than 10 images per person.
Each photograph should be titled and dated, and accompanied by a short description. Maximum 1500px on the longest edge.
Maximum file size 5MB
Entries will be judged anonymously so please do not insert the name of the photographer in the filename. If the submission is by someone under 16, a responsible adult should e-mail, and include the age of the <16 person. entries should be sent to: info@artsfestivaloxford.org by February 16, 2025.
ENDS
[image: photo by kind permission of Bharat Patel]
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Notes to editors Oxfordshire Artweeks 3 -26 May 2025
The Artweeks festival is Oxfordshire’s largest visual arts festival and the UK’s oldest and biggest artist open studios and pop-up exhibitions event. In May each year, this three- week not-for-profit celebration of the county’s artistic and creative talent encompasses the visual arts in their broadest sense. Including those participating in commercial galleries and community groups, around 2000 artists, makers and designers open the doors to their homes and studios or take part in pop-up exhibitions and welcome the public to see their creations and watch them work – over 100,000 people visit Artweeks exhibitions each year, an estimated £1,000,000 of art changes hands, and tens of thousands of pounds are generated for a whole host of charities.
Each week is different:
OXFORD CITY 3 – 11 MAY
SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE 10 – 18 MAY
NORTH & WEST OXFORDSHIRE 17 – 26 MAY
For further press information, high res images, area-specific details within Oxfordshire, feature ideas, and a swift response, contact Festival Director Esther Lafferty
