Erica Longfellow exhibits photography as part of the Oxford Festival of Arts
Since country is so tender
To touch, her being só slender,
That, like this sleek and seeing ball
But a prick will make no eye at all
Gerald Manley Hopkins, ‘Binsey Poplars’
Erica Longfellow, the Dean of Divinity at New College, hosted her first photography exhibition, entitled 'Oxford Inverted'. Held in the Pembroke JCR Art Gallery, the exhibition formed part of the Oxford Festival of Arts. Prints from the exhibition were on sale to raise funds for Asylum Welcome, a charity offering information, advice and support to asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants across Oxfordshire.
The images in this exhibition aim to prick our vision of Oxford’s magnificent places and spaces. Each is reflected, rotated, viewed through fog or stained glass. They reframe the sights of our city that are captured over and over but seldom, looked at with seeing eyes. They encourage attention to detail, shape, pattern, colour, contemplation, reflection.
Photographs in the exhibition were accompanied by original poems by Suzanne Fitzpatrick.
