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Art Jam in photos

By on September 26, 2018

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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 on tables or benches and one on the floor. In addition, several musicians playing an assortment of instruments, a singer, a poet, alongside people making model artists out of plasticine and others just enjoying the buzz. A huge thank you to all the artists that participated and to everyone that came but in particular, to the Harris Museum for allowing us to take over the Fine Art Gallery and trusting us enough to do our own thing. We loved every minute and judging by the messages we’ve received, so did all the artists that took part.

Here are some of the photos from the day. Click on an image to enlarge. Continue reading “Art Jam in photos”

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Art Jam at the Harris for Lancashire Encounter

By on September 20, 2018

Detail from the Art Map in progress

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, some on easels who’ll be sketching and drawing whilst others will be reading poetry or singing or playing instruments and yet others will be crafting and making things. There will also be some spare easels for anyone to come along and just join in. The idea is for everyone to respond to the activities and sounds going on around them, as one big collaboration. Continue reading “Art Jam at the Harris for Lancashire Encounter”

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RIP Albert Richardson

By on September 7, 2018

Cllr Albert Richardson

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 came to every one of our exhibitions and private views, enjoyed showing off “his gallery” to his friends and made a point of buying artwork from every one of the resident artists.

He was a true gentleman. A kind-hearted and generous man with a lively spirit, who enjoyed having a bit of fun. We have many happy memories from the 6 years we spent at the mill.

Albert – you will never be forgotten. Rest in peace.

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Opportunity to participate in Lancashire Encounter

By 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 a visual artist, musician, performer, a studio, collective or group, practicing or based in Lancashire, we want to hear from you. Continue reading “Opportunity to participate in Lancashire Encounter”

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Mayhem and Miscreance afoot

By on July 4, 2018

Oxheys artists’ planning meeting

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 made. We also came up with a whole raft of mad ideas for a future intervention event – more on that in due course!

Also up for discussion was our recent successful bid for Lancashire Encounter 2018 and for that, we’ll need help from every artist, performer or musician based in Lancashire. Details will follow but essentially we’ll just need you to let us know who you are, where you’re based and what you do! Simples. You’ll then become part of our art map of Lancashire.

The next post will include a form to complete and submit….

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Preston is a town of poets – a Poem for Preston

By 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.

Winston Plowes engaging more visitors with poetry

 

He did this by cycling around, stopping and asking people to pick a word from the spokes on his bicycle then asking them to make phrases using those words.

From these he constructed this wonderful poem for Preston, which we are excited to publish: Continue reading “Preston is a town of poets – a Poem for Preston”

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Oxheys’ Pop-up at the Harris

By 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 all our known artist friends inviting them to take part and bring along their artwork. It was very short notice but they of course didn’t let us down and we had a lovely diverse selection of artworks brought in on the Saturday morning for display.

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Making our mark

By on June 15, 2018

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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 skills with others enabling them to do so too.

From street theatre to samba drumming, large-scale art and chalk installations to paper-based collage making, knitting and weaving to painting and pastel drawing, there really was something for everyone – any everyone seemed to be having a great time.

The event kicked off with a procession led by Worldwise Samba Drummers, of Lubaina Himid’s big red cart as it was pulled from Latham Street near Avenham Park right through the centre of town, packed with shoppers on a busy Saturday lunchtime, up Fishergate, along Cheapside before finally taking up position centre-stage on the Flag Market –  a fitting encore to Lubaina’s recent Hard Times exhibition at the Harris which ended the week before. The smaller wooden cart stayed in the Harris foyer all week as a collection point for the donated tins of food for Tim Saunders’ large scale installation.

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Make Your Mark

By 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 what are the Oxheys artists up to?

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Watch out – Oxheys’ about!

By on May 23, 2018

We are thrilled to advise that our friends at the Harris Museum & Gallery in Preston have let us have use of both galleries on the 2nd floor for the weekend of 9-10th June – the Making A Mark weekend! We are therefore running an Oxheys Pop-up exhibition in the space – for two days only. There is no fee but donations of non-perishable food for Tim’s large-scale artwork to be created on the flag market on 9th June are requested please.

More info and an entry form here Pop-up T&Cs 2018

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