Winter exhibition collections
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 […]
Dark during February
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 […]
Special raffle prize for Winter exhibition
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 Preston city […]
Affordable art gifts and hand-made cards at Oxheys
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 […]
Winter exhibition
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 is […]
Last chance to see – ‘Unframed’ print exhibition
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 […]
Call for submissions – Winter exhibition
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 […]
Unframed Sunflower legacy
We are delighted to report that the giant sunflower installation in the current Unframed exhibition, by resident artist Denise Swanson, has been featured on the Museum of Science & Industry website as part of the Alan Turing sunflower experiment and has also been featured on the British Institute of Professional Photography website Read about it on the MOSI […]
Music & art combination goes down a treat
The recent performance by the Swingin’g Never-beans, featuring resident artist Simon Plum, proved that an informal evening of music and art do indeed mix. The fusion of blues, jazz and ragtime set in amongst the artwork in the Unframed exhibition, went down well with the audience and the acoustics of our old mill gave a […]
Unframed – and inspired
Last Thursday evening saw the opening of the exhibition ‘Unframed’ and what a night it was! Yet again, Oxheys was packed as visitors from all over the region came to see this exciting exhibition of work, beautifully curated by international artist Tracy Hill, and found they could interact with print in ways they had not […]