The Shape of What Remains (Graduate Exhibition)

The Shape of What Remains opens at Modern Art Oxford on Sunday 18 October, and it's on until Sunday 22 November. It's a graduate exhibition, which means you're seeing work from artists who've just come out of art school rather than established names. The whole thing is part of The Platform Graduate Award, a prize that looks at emerging artists from across the South of England.

That's the key to the show: it's not just a local Oxford thing. The artists are drawn from the South, so you're getting a cross-section of what's coming out of the region's art schools and studios. The exhibition brings them together under one roof, and because it's a graduate show, it's a good place to catch people early in their careers before they've built up a proper gallery presence. If you're into seeing how new artists are working—and what they're making right now—this is exactly the kind of thing to keep an eye on.

It's a fair stretch of a run, too. Opening on the 18th and running through to the 22nd of November gives you over a month to get around to it, so you don't have to rush in during the first weekend. If you're in the city, it's an easy one to slot into a Sunday afternoon or a weekday lunch break. The venue is Modern Art Oxford, at 30 Pembroke Street, OX1 1BP, right in the centre. Entry is free, so there's nothing stopping you from popping in and having a look around. If you're into the local art scene, it's a low-stakes way to see what the next generation is up to.