IN CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST ALIKI BRAINE

Sat 25 Oct 2025, 2–3pm

At the Museum

This event takes place in-person in the Still Life Paintings Gallery 48

Booking is essential. Tickets are £20 each. Book below.

With An Van Camp, Curator of Northern European Art & Photo Oxford

This unique event explores the enduring legacy of Dutch and Flemish still-life painting through a striking dialogue between 17th-century masterpieces and contemporary photographic reinterpretations.

Historic works from the Ashmolean’s renowned collection are shown alongside new pieces by Aliki Braine from her Twelve Months of the Year series. These innovative prints – cut, shredded, repositioned, and woven – challenge traditional perceptions of image and object.

Painting by Aliki Braine with squares over a summer flowers still life with reds and greens and yellows

Twelve Months of the Year (May-June), Aliki Braine, woven calendar pages, 2023

Still life paintings gallery with 2 x Aliki Braine artworks on show

Still Life Paintings (Daisy Linda Ward) Gallery with Aliki Braine artworks currently on show

Painting by Aliki Braine with squares over a summer flowers still life with blues and greens and reds and whites

Twelve Months of the Year (Nov-Dec), Aliki Braine, woven calendar pages, 2023

The event offers a rare opportunity to reflect on still life, past and present, and works which have inspired Aliki’s practice in the Ashmolean’s collection. It also gives attendees the chance to enjoy the Still LIfe Paintings (Daisy Linda Ward) Gallery at the Ashmolean behind closed doors, shared only with a small group of other fellow attendees.

This event takes place in conjunction with Photo Oxford, as part of the Photo Oxford Festival with sponsorship from the Centre for British Photography.

The event will be recorded and the recording link available on request’ from us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

This event is part of our Connect & Collaborate season of events.

Portrait photo of artist Aliki Braine smiling

Aliki Braine, by Jo Hone

About Aliki Braine:

Aliki Braine is interested in exploring the physical nature of photographic images and the debt photography owes to the history of Western European painting.

Often cutting, folding, drawing with ink, punching holes or overlaying her negatives with adhesive labels, Braine violates the pristine surface of the photograph forcing the viewer to acknowledge the photograph as an object and the image as a construct and opening up a new understanding of the photographic process.

Braine’s practice is heavily informed by her work and research as an art historian working on the history of 17th-century landscape painting.

Visit her website