Booking and more info by email : magaesberg@gmail.com

15 places. Children over 10 welcome with an adult

Please wear appropriate footwear and clothing for walking

A walk that combines photography and ‘close noticing’/observation to look at our immediate environment in a different way. It is for people who want to connect with the landscape and their creativity whilst boosting their physical and mental wellbeing. Part of the walk is silent.

The hour-long walk around Oxford City centre and green spaces will be followed by an informal discussion of the group’s work and an opportunity to look at the HATCHED2021 exhibition.

Participants are asked to bring a camera, smartphone or tablet to take pictures.

Maga Esberg is a visual artist, tutor and curator based in Oxford, UK. Esberg has an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in London. She set up HATCHED in 2016 as a creative platform to share work addressing women’s issues and experiences that range from ‘The personal is political' to Human Rights. She has several years experience in teaching photography and video in Youth Clubs, HE colleges and Universities in the UK and abroad. Her work has been exhibited at the North Wall, Oxford Brookes University, the RCA, Brighton Photo Fringe.

As part of her creative practice she has been researching Wytham woods in Oxfordshire since 2014. Her practice is based on observation and explores the connectedness between living beings and things within an aesthetic and poetic approach. She uses photography and video to document traces, marks and narratives that she interprets into metaphorical images or experiences that make the invisible visible, and re-frame perception.

Walking is key to her work; in Wytham the body becomes a measuring tool and in return, its physical and mental boundaries frame creativity.

The HATCHED2021 exhibition at OVADA brings together the practices of local and international lens-based artists. Collectively these artists voice the multiple aspects of gender inequalities: reproductive rights, gender-based violence, and trafficking. This work is shown alongside artists whose attention is closer to home. The tender look at motherhood, an exploration of complex family experiences. Personal and global they share an intimate female gaze.

Maga Esberg set up HATCHED in 2016 as a creative platform to share work addressing women’s issues and experiences that range from ‘The personal is political' to Human Rights.The HATCHED2021 exhibition at OVADA brings together the practices of local and international lens-based artists. Collectively these artists voice the multiple aspects of gender inequalities: reproductive rights, gender-based violence, and trafficking. This work is shown alongside artists whose attention is closer to home. The tender look at motherhood, an exploration of complex family experiences. Personal and global they share an intimate female gaze.