Oxonian subjects,including disabled, black and minority ethnic graduates, and nominated by students and staff to defy stereotypesAn exhibition of portraits including a Winter Olympics bobsledder,several novelists, a human rights campaigner, and two astrophysicists,a sailor and a brilliant young mathematician opens in Oxford this week. What the subjects have in common is their tall intelligence and that although they gaze with calm confidence from their portraits – and in the case of the novelist Jeanette Winterson portrayed by Gerard Hanson, perched on a doorstep in well-polished boots, and alert to dismantle any challenger – nearly certainly there were moments for all of them when they felt like awkward outsiders during their time at Oxford University.
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Source: guardian.co.uk