POETRY IN GALLERIES SEP 2025

In Daphne Wright's Ashmolean NOW exhibition, gallery 8

Sat 27 Sep 2025, 2–3pm
At the Museum
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Drop-in, FREE activity on Saturday afternoon

Gallery 8, lower ground floor in the Daphne Wright exhibition

With Oxfordshire poets

Poets from Oxford and surrounding areas will explore and celebrate the Museum’s pieces, renowned or recherche, intriguing or glorious and newly-acquired artworks.

Poems will be recited next to the objects and artworks that inspired the poets. If you want to talk to the poets, most of us are friendly!

The September tour will be inside the Daphne Wright sculpture exhibition in Gallery 8.

 

Sons and couch sculpture Inside the Daphne Wright exhibition showing the gallery wall displays
Fridge display and signage in the Daphne Wright exhibition

Inside the Daphne Wright exhibition; left Sons & Couch, the exhibition's centrepiece, right Fridge and Ugg displays

 

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