Creativity clearly runs in the Albarn family.

Damon practically invented Britpop with his band Blur.

Five years ago his dad Keith won the Colchester Arts for All Award, partly in recognition of his work as head of art and design at Colchester Institute.

Now an exhibition at the Institute by Damon's mum Hazel could mean you never look at paper in quite the same way again.

Focusing on her visits to Nepal, Mauritius, Japan and Botswana since 1992, it includes a chair and a vase made using papier mache techniques as well as arresting montages and photographs.

In recent months she has been artist in residence at a secondary school in West Finchley and, when not in London, she lives on Damon's farm in Devon.

Her famous son is working in Oxford and will miss the exhibition's opening. "I don't announce when he's coming. When I had an exhibition at the school he came in extremely late and still nearly caused a riot."

The exhibition, Art Travels, runs until February 19 in the Hay Gallery of the art and design department. Opening hours are 9.30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, and admission is free.

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