Wolfson is renowned among Oxford Colleges for its unique contribution to contemporary art. In addition to the College's unique collection of modern art, Wolfson supports Creative Arts Fellowships in the visual arts, music, or creative writing.
Further details of past and present Creative Arts Fellows are listed below.
Mark Rowan-Hull
- Creative Arts Fellow 2009 - 2012 Visual Artist
Mark Rowan-Hull’s career began as a Improvisational musician before he started making visual art. Rowan-Hull synaesthetic approach to art seeks to dissolve the distinction between visual art and music, and his recent work seeks to capture time in music and reveal the temporal qualities of visual art. The poet and critic Tom Paulin has said of his work “Rowan-Hull understands all Baudelaire meant by Correspondence” (Studio International 2004).
Throughout the past ten years he has accepted invitations to create new work in specific performances with notable musicians including Dame Gillian Weir, Peter Hill and the Coull and Allegri Quartets. The creation and performance of these works have become as critical as the visual work itself.
With this approach, which has enabled the artist to incorporate music directly in his practice, Rowan-Hull has produced some extraordinary works in performance including at the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Academy of Music, Westminster Cathedral, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club, Pallant House Gallery, Sainsbury Centre in Norwich and most recently at Modern Art Oxford.
Rowan-Hull was born in Essex in 1968: He has exhibited widely including recently at the acclaimed touring Eye-Music exhibition, with Solo exhibitions at galleries in London and nationally.
Carmen Bugan
- Creative Arts Fellow 2005 - 2009 Poet
Carmen Bugan was born in Romania in 1970. She and her family immigrated in 1989 to the United States as political dissidents. She was educated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and completed her doctorate at Balliol College, Oxford. She wasis a tutor in Creative Writing at Oxford. Her first collection of poems, Crossing the Carpathians, was published in 2004. Carmen now lives near Geneva.
William Fiennes
- Creative Arts Fellow 2005 - 2007 Writer
Will Fiennes studied at St Peter's College and Magdalen. He has contributed to Granta, the London Review of Books, and the TLS. His first book, The Snow Geese, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize. He was the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2002.
Kathryn Whitney
- Creative Arts Fellow 2002 - 2005 Musician
Lyric mezzo-soprano Kathryn Whitney was trained in Toronto, New York and Oxford and she sang her post-graduate performance diploma recital at the Guildhall School of Music in London in 2001. Her repertoire spans numerous genres, styles and languages, but she has a special love of German Lieder, contemporary music and coloratura roles of the 17th and 18th centuries. At Wolfson, Kathryn gave regular recitals with pianist Philip Bullock, and organised regular Sunday Afternoon Concerts. She performed a work specially commissioned for Wolfson at a Guest Night.
Margaret O'Rorke
- Creative Arts Fellow 1999 - 2002 Potter and Ceramicist
Margaret O'Rorke has developed innovative techniques in the use of ceramics and light. A further link provides images of some of her work on the Galerie Besson website.
Nicholas McInerny
- Creative Arts Fellow 1995 - 1998 Playwright
Nicholas McInerny has written for Stage, Radio, Television and Film. He has had plays produced by Red Shift Theatre Company and Soho Theatre, over 20 radio plays produced by Radio 4 and written for both The Bill (Thames TV) and Always and Eeveryone (Granada TV) amongst others. He is represented by John Rush at Sheil Land Associates (tel 0207 405 9351).
Amit Prakesh Chaudhuri
- Creative Arts Fellow 1992 - 1995 Creative Writer
One of the most dazzling new talents of any nationality (San Francisco Chronicle), Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta and brought up in Bombay. His first novel, A strange and sublime address, published in 1991, won the Betty Trask Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia).
Karen Forsyth
- Creative Arts Fellow 1989 - 1992 Artist
Karen Forsyth paints and draws.
Helen Roe
- Creative Arts Fellow 1986 - 1989 Composer and Musician
