Planning future events
Oxheys has been quiet over the past few weeks as resident artists have had various commissions, workshops, consultancy work, exhibitions and other jobs to do. Meaning not much time to spend in the studios or work on ideas, let alone make future plans for Oxheys. It is also been a time of change, with new artists moving in whilst […]
New display wall finished
Over the past couple of weeks we have been busy taking down and rebuilding the partition in the Project Space, giving us a fabulous new display wall. Not only does this make the space look bigger but it gives two new display areas, perfect for large artworks and reflects the light back into the space making it […]
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 […]
Recent changes, new resident & available space
It has been a busy summer at Oxheys with lots of work and a few changes. In the basement, Joe, one of the founding artists, moved out of his studio and was soon replaced by Terry, a ceramist, currently doing an MA at UCLan. Terry originally set about cleaning up and repainting one of the […]
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 […]
Wash and brush up!
We have been very busy at Oxheys over the past few weeks – although closed to the public, we have still been there working hard, trying to finish off some of the jobs that still needed doing. It’s tough when we can see all of things that we’d like to do in the mill but […]
Another new artist
It’s all go at Oxheys – another new artist moved in this week, Hannah Allan, who is currently working on a PhD in Fine Art, Site and Archive at Manchester, lives in Preston not far from the studios. Hannah is moving into one of the spaces left in the basement, joining Joe and the Bulgarian […]
And now we are six
Another new artist joined our studios this week, printmaker and painter Julie Saul who lives near Preston and is a past member of ArtLab and student at UCLAN. Julie is moving in to the last remaining space on the first floor, joining Lisa, Evelyn and Simon. It is getting quite busy upstairs now with all […]
Two new artists
We are thrilled to welcome two new artists to Oxheys Mill Studios – Preston-based artists Evelyn Rose and Simon Plum each came to submit work for the open exhibition, were intrigued by what we were doing and fell in love with the space. It did not take long before first Evelyn and then Simon asked […]