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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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Making our mark

By Denise on June 15, 2018

[tribulant_slideshow gallery_id=2] 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 […]

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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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Woolly Thinking

Woolly Thinking

By Denise on September 21, 2016

Celebrating our 5th birthday, this is a collaborative project in which residents explore Preston’s rich textile heritage. Alongside Lancashire Encounter, the exhibition at Oxheys opens with a Private View on 22 September 6-8pm when our friend Chelytherium will play live soundscapes in response to the theme. Come and enjoy the art on display, which includes […]

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Dream mapping - Gordon Ashworth

Dream mapping

By Denise on June 10, 2016

Dream Mapping, the latest exhibition at Oxheys, is on til 2nd July. An exhibition of original work by resident artist Gordon Ashworth, makes use of a kind of mapping, building on shapes, symbols and animal totems, drawing upon the unconscious and dreams, attempting to connect the spirit world with the physical. Gordon’s recent drawing and painting is […]

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