An event by Northern Earth
Northern Earth presents… Oxfordshire Otherwise
Thursday 5 November 2026
Fusion Arts, 15 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HH
7 pm (doors open 6.30 pm)
Drinks available at the bar. Tickets only £10 per person, and profits will go to support the charity Fusion Arts.
An evening of alternative creative encounters with place – film, art, music and talks.
(Note: when you buy a ticket, we’ll have your name on a list at the door – no QR codes etc. needed.)
C.M. Taylor’s Debut Exhibition Slow & Spurious Comes to Fusion Arts
Award-winning experimental filmmaker and novelist C.M. Taylor (Craig) brings his debut visual art and film exhibition, Slow & Spurious, to Fusion Arts, Oxford. Fatigued by our hyperactive visual culture, in 2024 C M Taylor grew moved to start making slow, laconic, zero-budget experimental short films, guided by the slogan ‘The slow and the spurious, not the fast and the furious'. Despite having no prior skills nor experience, and to his great surprise, these films have since won Best Experimental Film at fifteen international film festivals, on five
continents.
The line-up:
- Professor Paul Whitty, composer and sound researcher, will be live mixing some field recordings made in Oxfordshire.
- Music from multi-instrumentalist and contemporary folk singer/songwriter Sharron Kraus.
- ‘Nomadic-sporadic’ artist Sara Dudman RWA will speak about her ‘Ley of the Land’ project in the Cotswolds, accompanied by a short film by Hannah Earl.
- C.M. Taylor will screen an award-winning experimental short, filmed in Oxfordshire, and discuss guerrilla filmmaking in the shires.
- Editor of Northern Earth Andrew Chapman will talk about a psychogeographical quest for the heart of Albion.
The filmmaking process generates distinctive pieces of visual art, which will be exhibited alongside their corresponding films for the first time.
Exhibition Details
Dates: 5–8 November 2026
Opening Night: Thursday, 5 November, from 6:30 pm
Venue: Fusion Arts, 15 Park End Street, Oxford
Admission: Free entry to the exhibition.
The opening night launch takes place in conjunction with Oxfordshire Otherwise, for which tickets cost £10. All profits to Fusion Arts.
