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It’s a Draw!

By Denise on November 2, 2018

We are very pleased to announce that we have been invited by the Harris Museum & Gallery in Preston city centre to continue working with them running a series of Life Drawing sessions.  A professional model offers a variety of short and long poses. The last session for 2018 is on 24th November so if you’d […]

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A packed Art Jam

Art Jam in photos

By Denise on September 26, 2018

Wow – what an event! The Art Jam on Saturday, at the Harris Museum in Preston was amazing – so many visitors, at times it was difficult to move around. At its busiest, we had around 20 visual artists working on easels, another 6 or 7 sat on chairs with sketch pads, several more perched […]

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Detail from the Art Map

Art Jam at the Harris for Lancashire Encounter

By Denise on September 20, 2018

Join us for the very first Art Jam to be held at the Harris Museum & Gallery in Preston as part of the Lancashire Encounter festival, as we celebrate our 7th birthday! We’ll be in Gallery 6 on the 2nd floor from 12-6pm Saturday 22nd September. We have a diverse selection of artists taking part, […]

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Cllr Albert Richardson

RIP Albert Richardson

By Denise on September 7, 2018

It was with great sadness we learned yesterday of the passing of Cllr Albert Richardson – twice Mayor of Preston, our landlord, long time supporter and our friend. Quite simply, if not for Albert offering the use of his then empty factory mill on Stanhope Street in 2011, Oxheys would never have started. He proudly […]

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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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Oxheys artists' planning meeting

Mayhem and Miscreance afoot

By Denise on July 4, 2018

At Oxheys we don’t do bored and stuffy – our planning meeting yesterday took place on the Flag Market outside the Harris Museum, in glorious sunshine with elderflower and dandelion & burdock juice aplenty. We discussed the outcomes of the recent Making A Mark event, assessed what had worked well and where improvements could be […]

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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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Oxheys' Pop-up at the Harris

Oxheys’ Pop-up at the Harris

By Denise on June 21, 2018

During the Making A Mark activities on 9th June on the Flag Market outside the Harris Museum, something was also going inside the Harris on the 2nd floor. After persuading our friends at the Harris to let us have use of both 2nd floor galleries for the weekend, in between exhibitions, we issued a call-out to […]

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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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  • Excellent news! Very well done to all those involved - exciting times ahead https://t.co/ly0z4TuE4K
    about 2 weeks ago
  • Don’t miss the UCLan MA Fine Art Interim show online tonight!! https://t.co/A8uE7ECYnB
    about 3 weeks ago
  • On behalf of our friend and supporter artist Joseph Travis may we share this, all in a good cause https://t.co/vJKWzMh2ku
    about 1 month ago
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