Conversations: off to a good start

By On May 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Conversations is a working residency by Jane Bennett, Steph Fletcher, Rob Smith, Nuala Riding, Natalie Morgan and Evelyn Rose, a group of emerging artists who are in the completion stage of their Fine Art: Site and Archive MA at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. The works on show are exploring the ephemeral nature [...]

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Conversations – Fine Art: Site & Archive residency

By On May 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Presented by six  artists on the UCLan MA Fine Art: Site & Archive course

Open  Six days a week for two weeks

Mon-Sat 11am-4pm from May 6th-May 18th 2013

Private View with the Swinging Never-Beans  jazz  combo:

Thursday 16th May 6-8pm

A unique opportunity to explore the evolution of six very different  MA projects on [...]

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New exhibitions currently being planned

By On April 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Several exciting new events and exhibitions are being planned for 2013, for which dates and details are currently being finalised and will be announced soon. Please watch this space.

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Winter exhibition collections

By On March 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment

There are still a number of artworks awaiting collection from the Winter exhibition which closed on January 26th. Any artists who still have not collected their work from this exhibition, please arrange to do so as quickly as possible if you have not already made alternative arrangements with us.

As the project space is currently [...]

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Dark during February

By On February 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment

We decided to ‘go dark’ again for February this year, after the Winter exhibition came down, so the gallery/project space is closed until mid March when the next exhibition opens. Planning, organising, and installing exhibitions is time consuming and as this is done on a voluntary basis, going dark for a few weeks provides a [...]

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James Diable wins the painting by Lubaina Himid in our Winter raffle

Special raffle prize for Winter exhibition

By On January 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment

We were thrilled when renowned international artist Lubaina Himid MBE very generously donated one of her paintings as a raffle prize for our Winter exhibition. Professor of Contemporary Art at UCLan, fifty of her paintings featured in the Moments That Matter exhibition at the Harris Museum and on banners in various shopfronts in [...]

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Affordable art gifts and hand-made cards at Oxheys

By On December 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

A selection of handmade cards, prints and small gifts are available to buy in the loading bay area of the Winter exhibition currently on at Oxheys Mill Studios in addition to most of the work on display in the exhibition, some of which sold on the opening night.  We set up the ’Under £15′ table, as an [...]

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Oxheys Winter exhibition 2012 - Private View

Winter exhibition

By On December 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

With the brief of making work on the theme of ‘winter’, artists from across the region have interpreted this in a variety of interesting and thought-provoking ways, making the selection process for this winter exhibition very hard. There was just so much good work to choose from! The selection has been done, the show [...]

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Last chance to see – ‘Unframed’ print exhibition

By On November 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

We can’t quite believe how the time has flown but the exhibition of work from Preston-based ArtLab member artist/printmakers is nearly at an end so this is your last chance to see the show before it closes on Saturday 1st December. If you haven’t seen it or you have but you want to come back [...]

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Call for submissions – Winter exhibition

By On November 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Last year at this time, we issued a call for submissions for a ‘Winter’ exhibition, asking asked artists to respond to the theme of ‘winter’. Open to wide interpretation, we had a great response and some wonderful work submitted, making an interesting and imaginitive exhibition from which several works sold during the Private View! So [...]

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