Date Published: 08.05.2024
This Giving day we are fortunate to have two artworks available to auction.
This Giving day we are fortunate to have two artworks available to auction.
The first item (‘Dandelion’) is by Kate Daudy. Kate came to Wadham in the late 1980s. She is a British conceptual artist best known for her public interventions and large-scale sculpture. Working across a variety of media, she lives and works in London, UK, and has exhibited worldwide.
The second item is another pastel drawing of Wadham’s gardens by our gifted Librarian, Tim Kirtley. Tim has donated two other pastel works to our last two Giving Days, helping us raise over £1,200.
Both will be silent auctions – interested donors should submit their maximum bid by 23:59 (BST) on 16 May 2024. The successful bidders will be announced on 17 May.
To bid, please email development.team@wadham.ox.ac.uk citing the piece you would like to bid on, along with your highest bid. Please write 'Art auction' in the subject line.
'Dandelion' by Kate Daudy. Woollen felt and handmade paper, 29.7 x 42cm. Minimum bid: £3,000
'Fellows' Garden with north range under scaffolding' by Tim Kirtley. Pastel artwork on paper, unfixed and unframed, 30 x 40cm. Minimum bid: £500
This is a felt decoupage sewn onto handmade paper representing a dandelion, which traditionally symbolises hope, healing and resilience. The flower is part of a series of works that Kate is doing in London in support of the UNHCR, named “The Seeds of Hope’’. The city-wide installation will run from 16 May across the whole of London.
Kate will install small bio-degradable flowers at 17 locations in the city, linking to a repository of filmed stories about refugees and asylum-seekers. Portraying mankind’s attachment to the world around him, as well as using seeds as an analogy for people, this project is a reminder of the enormous power we each have to make a difference. Just as seeds blown by the wind can flourish under the right circumstances, the project will illustrate how refugees with the right support and community engagement can and do thrive.
Daudy’s interventions across the city call to mind the oneness of humanity and the fact that we are all connected.
Kate is a fellow of Colombia University at the Institute of Ideas and The Imagination, Paris.
For further any information about Kate, please visit:
Tim has produced many pieces of art for Wadham, from Christmas card illustrations to these much-loved images from Wadham’s gardens that he has donated to help fundraise for our recent Giving Days.
This latest piece shows the scaffolding covering – “a moment in time” says Tim, and “another example of the College renewing itself.”
Dancing in time with others raises your pain threshold and increases social closeness, says research carried out by Wadham’s Emma Cohen and a team from Oxford University's Experimental Psychology and Anthropology Departments.
Read Chaucer’s poems, guided line by line by Wadham Emeritus Fellow, leading poet and medievalist Bernard O’Donoghue.
