Oxana Bischin is a Birmingham based, Romanian, community engagement worker and creative. Since 2019 she has worked on different projects funded by Birmingham City Council, Home Office and Arts Council dedicated to engaging and integrating Central and Eastern European migrants with local communities in the areas of Erdington, Handsworth, Acocks Green and Balsall Heath.
Currently she works as community engagement worker for the University of Birmingham's research project - 'Post Socialist Britain' lead by Professor Sara Jones. For this project she leads on the delivery of the photography workshops in the ‘Communities’ strand and, in collaboration with Centrala and the Artist in Residence, on the production of the exhibition emerging from the research.
In her creative work Oxana focuses on themes of identity, migration and isolation. In 2016 she documented the Kalderash Roma community of Brateiu, Transylvania and later showcased this project in exhibitions at INK Gallery in Berndorff, Austria and Centrala in Birmingham, UK. Currently, with the aid of a Develop your Creative Practice grant, she is exploring the subject of identity alienation in Romanian and Roma migrants through photography documentation and textiles art installations.