New exhibitions currently being planned
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Last chance to see
We have enjoyed hosting the Lancashire Artists Network 2012 Open exhibition at Oxheys but this is now the last week for this event, so if you haven’t seen it yet, come along on Friday or Saturday 11am-4pm to catch it whilst you can. Purchases can be collected on Saturday before 4pm. Artists with work in […]
LAN exhibition – open at Oxheys
We are very pleased to be hosting the LAN Open art exhibition which opened with a very busy Private View on Sept 13th with visitors coming from across Lancashire and even Cumbria, Manchester and Cheshire. It was our busiest opening yet with many of our regular friends and visitors coming along but also most of the artists […]