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Opportunity to participate in Lancashire Encounter

By Denise on July 4, 2018

Lancashire-based artists, we need your help. Oxheys has been commissioned by the Harris Museum and Preston City Council to create a large-scale arts map of Lancashire for Lancashire Encounter 21-23 September 2018. The aim is to show how much creativity there is in Lancashire, its diversity and how it is interlinked. So if you are […]

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Winston Plowes engaging more visitors with poetry

Preston is a town of poets – a Poem for Preston

By Denise on June 23, 2018

If you were on the Flag Market on 9th June for Making A Mark, you may recall seeing Winston, the world’s first cyclist poet, engaging with the crowds and creating a poem for Preston.   He did this by cycling around, stopping and asking people to pick a word from the spokes on his bicycle […]

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just some of the donated tins

Making our mark

By Denise on June 15, 2018

Saturday June 9th 2018 – hundreds of people visited the Flag Market in Preston to watch, take part or simply have fun during Making A Mark 2018. Months in the planning, the event featured over 20 different Preston-based artists, performers, musicians and creatives, all keen to make their mark and more importantly, to share their […]

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Make Your Mark

Make Your Mark

By Denise on June 6, 2018

12-4pm Saturday 9th June Join us in the Harris Museum and on the Flag Market in Preston. We have organised and commissioned artworks, activities and interventions from some of Preston’s best known artists, with something to appeal to everyone. Bring your families, join in, get creative and have some fun.  Full programme of events So […]

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Celebrate summer - fusion of visual art & poetry

Celebrate summer – fusion of visual art & poetry

By Denise on August 5, 2014

We are celebrating our 3rd birthday in style with a special Summer Open exhibition – an exciting fusion of poetry and visual arts, featuring work from over 30 artists from all over Lancashire. Private View event is this Thursday 7th from 6-8pm – all welcome. Tweet

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Where are we?

We are now peripatetic and have no fixed abode. We'll pop-up where you least expect to see us!

Members

  • Bernie Velvick
  • Caroline Finnigan
  • Denise Swanson
  • Evelyn Rose
  • Gordon Ashworth
  • Robin Fanner
  • Tim Saunders
  • Hear that? That’s the sound of cogs turning.... Oxheys artists are at it again, planning this year’s art interventi… https://t.co/rF8FbJIqvo
    about 2 weeks ago
  • Another busy Life Drawing session @HarrisPreston today, thanks all who came along - these are getting very popular… https://t.co/dqnwhNKXoD
    about 3 weeks ago
  • New page: Lancashire Artists Network https://t.co/UFXW1ZAsoM
    about 1 month ago

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  • Art Jam in photos
  • Art Jam at the Harris for Lancashire Encounter
  • RIP Albert Richardson
  • Opportunity to participate in Lancashire Encounter
  • Mayhem and Miscreance afoot
  • Preston is a town of poets – a Poem for Preston
  • Oxheys’ Pop-up at the Harris
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