POETRY IN THE GALLERIES TOUR MARCH 2025

In the Chinese Paintings Gallery

Sat 22 Mar, 2–3pm
At the Museum

Drop-in, FREE activity on Saturday afternoon

Gallery 11, Chinese Paintings

With Oxfordshire poets

The Ashmolean welcomes back old friends, and new ones as well to our series of poetry tours.

This tour focuses on the free exhibition in the Ashmolean's Chinese Paintings Gallery, where contemporary Hong Kong artist Cheung Yee's sculptures and works on paper are on show alongside other Hong Kong contemporaries.

Family, tall sculpture by Cheung Yee, dating 1960-69

Family, Cheung Yee, 1960-1969

Red relief on cast paper by Cheung Yee, dating to 1977

Everlasting 2/50, Cheung Yee, 1977, red relief on cast paper

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!