Art and Talking

16/06/2026

With Chipping Norton News – I just got recognized as one of their top fans!

15/06/2026

Mafia control of clothes hangers...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/15/italian-police-dismantle-illicit-bank-used-by-drug-traffickers-as-global-broker

14/06/2026

Churchill Car Fair.

14/06/2026

Please contribute your memories!

Sun 28 June ‘26 -11am Memory Mapping – Building a personal map of Chipping Norton 3pm Walk free

On 28 June, Blake will be working on creating a memory map of Chipping Norton based on local memories, stories and recollection. Please Drop by and add your stories/memories/personal landmarks to the map. Following this in the afternoon/early evening, he will be leading a walk using the map as a guide. Please feel free to drop in for the map and come to the group walk in the afternoon!

June-July ‘26 residency at Art & Talking by Blake Morris.

Blake Morris, PhD is a walking artist, independent scholar and research impact specialist based in Colima México. His artistic work and scholarly research focus on inviting people to walk together, often at a distance through the use of digital tools. Projects have included British Summer Time, an ongoing series of global sunrise walks, and the Arts Council England-funded project This is not a Slog, for which he created three site-specific walks for Ovalhouse Theatre (London). He was recently a resident social impact artist for Camino Al Arte in Atotonilco, México, where he produced the zine, “Caminatas Creativas de Atotonilco”, a walking guide to the local area. His book, Walking Networks: The Development of an Artistic Medium (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020) offers an overview of the current field of walking art in the United Kingdom and proposes a definition of the medium. His writing can also be found in journals such as Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, the International Journal of Tourism Cities, and Claire Hind and Clare Qualmann’s Ways to Wander publications (Axminster: Triarchy Press).

Every Sunday following the first Saturday in the month, at 11 am, we host a free artist's walk. We have ambitions to hold a festival of walking art, as we are in an area of outstanding natural beauty, and welcome collaboration.

14/06/2026

Chipping Norton artist hangs full-size replica of Bayeux Tapestry in town centre

14/06/2026

Natalia Mali, the artist in residence, needs
old illustrated magazines to create mixed media work.
Please bring old illustrated magazines to the art centre.

Natalia Mali is an international artist, performer, and choreographer whose practice moves between collage, photo montage, film, photography, and video installation. Rooted in feminist discourse, her work examine re-reading identity, cultural memory, and national narratives. Educated at the Yale School of Art and Architecture and the University of London, Mali has exhibited internationally, including at the Muscum George Pompidou, Saatchi Gallery, Cairo Bienalle, LOOP Barcelona. Her works are held in collections such as MMoMA and the Tretyakov Gallery. She currently lives and works in Cambridge. UK

13/06/2026

Rachel Pantechnicon reading Elf Shelf at last Sunday's poetry curated by Dr Robin Vaughan-Williams.

On Saturday July 4th Michael Glover will read from Vincent's Poets at 4pm.

12/06/2026

David Hockney RIP.
We have this original print from his first illustrated book, poems of the wonderful Cafafy.

By C. P. Cavafy

You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,

find another city better than this one.

Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong

and my heart lies buried like something dead.

How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?

Wherever I turn, wherever I look,

I see the black ruins of my life, here,

where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.

This city will always pursue you.

You’ll walk the same streets, grow old

in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.

You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:

there’s no ship for you, there’s no road.

Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,

you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.

11/06/2026

Dr Clare Mulley reading at last Sunday's poetry curated by Dr Robin Vaughan-Williams.
On Saturday July 4th Michael Glover will read from Vincent's Poets.

09/06/2026

Chipping Norton the Venice of the Cotswolds, a group show of contemporary, modern, and old work. Artists to include Terry Atkinson,‍ ‍Pato Bosich, Sir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBA, Tadashi Moriyami (Chipping Norton),‍ ‍Samuel Prout, Michael Bucknell, Jean Cocteau, Cristina Starr, Matt Hale, Scott Schwager,Francis Boyle, William Walcot, Rhiannon Evans‍, Reginald Barratt RWS ‍…

Please contact us if you would like to participate with physical or transient work.

Sat December 6th exhibition opening 2-8pm, 6-8pm Vermouth opening reception