Quiet start for 2015
After the hectic pre-Christmas Winter schedule of exhibition and workshops, resident artists are making the most of this quiet time of the year to spend time working in their own studios, making art with time to think and expand ideas. That is why we have the studios, after all. Organising exhibitions and other events is enjoyable but it is […]
Summer open exhibition & art market
As part of our 3rd birthday celebrations, we are running a special Summer Open exhibition, also featuring a one-day pop-up Art Market event on Preston Flag Market. Local artists, LAN and ArtLab members are all invited to join us. Artists interested in running workshops or a performance during the Art Market even are also invited to apply.
Oxheys – 3 years old!
Seems hard to believe but it was exactly 3 years ago this weekend that this website was started, when Denise, Joe and Lisa collected the keys for the old factory mill on Stanhope Street that was to become Oxheys Mill Studios and started the collective. Armed with mops and buckets, a kettle, copious supplies of […]
A fresh new start in March
As March arrives, we welcome a new artist Naomi Dix, to Oxheys and we say goodbye and good luck to Laura, who leaves to have a baby. Naomi, an artist working with textiles, is moving into one of the basement studios, next to ceramicist Terry who joined us a few months ago. The basement is currently […]
20:20 – a successful experiment
The 20:20 print exchange was an experiment to see whether this type of format for a show would work. We were not really sure if it would work but thought it was worth a try – after all, nothing ventured and all that. The show closed on Saturday and with only a handful of prints […]
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 […]