Exhibition
Diana Forster: Such a Long Journey
13 Sep 2021 – 25 Sep 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Address
- South Parade
- Summertown
- Oxford
England - OX2 7JN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 10 mins by bus from central Oxford; 15 mins on bike
About
In 1940, at the beginning of the Second World War, Stalin’s troops invaded eastern Poland. A million Polish people were forced from their homes at gunpoint and sent to labour camps in Siberia. Diana Forster’s mother and grandparents were among them.
Diana avoids showing traumatic, disturbing images in her installations and prints as they can turn viewers away. If we accept a role for art in presenting subsequent generations with the realities of war, we have to find new ways of engaging audiences and Diana does this through formal qualities which draw the viewers’ attention while the work is gradually understood.