Exhibition open: 26.11.11 - 08.01.11

Flora McLachlan’s pictures are records of things seen and imagined by twilight or moonglow. She is inspired by medieval poetry and powerful, strange images from fairy tales and myths.
 
“I try to express a sense of the enchantment I feel is embedded in our ancient landscape. I imagine the secret face of the land, when the light fades and the creatures come out to roam.

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Exhibition open: 15.10.11 - 13.11.11

Pin-hole photographer Mary Foulkes presents a series of work which highlights Oxford Castle’s most secret and unexplored corners.

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O3 Gallery
Saturday 1st – Sunday 9th October 2011
Open: Weekdays 12-5pm, Weekends 11am-4pm.

In the week leading up to Oxford Castle’s site-wide Big Draw event, which will take place on Saturday 8th October, the O3 Gallery will offer its walls to budding draughts-people across the county! Everyone is welcome to take part and either bring a drawing that they have created already, or use the materials provided in the gallery throughout the week to make their drawing on the spot and hang it straight on the wall! The result will be a great display of drawings from participants of all ages and abilities, celebrating the medium’s powerful universal language of shape and form. As The Big Draw theme for 2011 is ‘The Drawing Age’, participants are encouraged to think of this when creating their drawings. This is an exciting opportunity to think about the role drawing plays in our lives today. Why is drawing still important to us in 2011, and how do we make use of it? At the end of the exhibition one drawing will be chosen by O3 Gallery to be framed and added to the prestigious Oxford Castle Art Collection.
 
*Please do not submit framed work to this exhibition. All drawings will be attached to the gallery hanging system using bulldog clips.
** Please note that we cannot guarantee the return of any drawings submitted in this open exhibition. The drawings will be available to collect on Sunday 9th October between the hours of 11am and 4pm.

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Exhibition open: 27.08.11 - 25.09.11

An exhibition of artwork created by four students who took part in the Porthleven Art Studio Residency in June 2011, as well as work by professional artists local to Porthleven, presented in association with the Customs House Gallery.

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Exhibition open: 23.07.11 - 21.08.11

To celebrate its 5th birthday the O3 Gallery welcomes back a selection of artists who have exhibited in the space over the last 5 years.

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Exhibition open: 04.06.11 - 17.07.11

Horti-CULTURE is for garden-lovers everywhere! It is an exhibition which examines our human relationship with nature and explores the images, experiences and visual languages that emerge from the act of cultivating a garden. Highlights include original ink drawings by Sarah Simblet, a human-sized nest sculpture by Emma Kwan and an installation by Lisa Busby which will turn part of the lower gallery into a living garden!

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Exhibition open: 07.05.11 - 29.05.11

Artweeks at the O3 Gallery: Mary Moser Prize Winner - Wendy Newhofer.
Outdoor sculpture by Christopher Townsend and Andrew Thompson presented by the Turrill Sculpture Garden

and a showcase of work by Oxfordshire students.

Wendy Newhofer makes expressive glass pieces that have a painterly quality to them. A combination of glass and metal in the form of precious leaf and wire enables Wendy to draw within the glass and create a palette of subtle colours when the glass is fired. There is a magical alchemy to this process which can be unpredictable but gives each piece its individual character.

The Turrill Sculpture Garden will present a series of artwork within the Oxford Castle Garden, featuring local sculptors including Christopher Townsend and Andrew Thompson.

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exhibition open: 26.03.11 - 24.04.11

Exploring the DIY artistry of self-releasing musicians
Editions of You celebrates and showcases self-publishing and self-releasing musicians and the handmade editions and releases they create. Taking the form of an exhibition, zine fair, live music events, talks and happenings, Editions of You at the O3 Gallery and Oxford Castle seeks to unearth the underground culture of DIY artistry that combines music with artwork...

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exhibition open: 19.02.11 - 20.03.11

The O3 Gallery is delighted to be working with Oxford Fashion Week 2011 to showcase a series of photographs taken by various photographers during Oxford Fashion Week 2010. The images illustrate the pure excitement of the runway shows; from both a central and backstage perspective. The collection plays host to a variety of photographers, from young talents to well established artists. Their photographs capture the drama of the lighting, the thrill of the clothes and the splendour of the makeup. The contrast of the glamorous modern compositions with the historic interior of the O3 Gallery is a unique experience. The exhibition is set to be striking and memorable..

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exhibition open: 15.01.11 - 13.02.11

An exhibition of dynamic new views of Oxfords most celebrated building, the Radcliffe Camera. By Emma Dougherty is a UK based artist and animator who works with a range of materials including clay, found objects, stamps and digital art. Emma’s prevailing fascination is with the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, and portraying it in new and quirky ways. and Tim Steward who lives and works in Oxford and is trained in classical drawing at Lavender Hill Studios in London...

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exhibition open: 27.11.10 - 09.01.11

A Cotswold Scene displays the winning entries and runners up of an exciting photography competition launched to celebrate the Cotswolds. The competition is the idea of local landscape photographer Sarah Howard, supported by the Cotswolds Conservation Board and Blueprint Imaging of Witney. Sarah, who established Image Seen last year to offer one to one and group workshops in the area, has lived in the Cotswolds for much of her life and has a particular affinity with the region. She is especially keen to promote its photographic potential; “Photography has seen a surge in popularity recently and with spring approaching there’s no better time than now to get out there with your camera, make use of its wonderful creative potential, and engage with our lovely surroundings”, April 2010......

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exhibition open: 23.10.10 – 21.11.10

In October, printmaker Rachel Owen and sculptor Rachel Ducker join forces at the O3 Gallery with the exhibition ‘Metamorphosis’. The exhibition loosely explores the idea of transformation, in terms of the natural and supernatural, the real and imagined, from idea to object or image and from present events to memory or souvenir......

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exhibition open: 18.09.10 – 17.10.10

Textile artist Amanda Hislop will present a series of artwork at the O3 Gallery, Oxford Castle from Saturday 18th September until Sunday 17th October. In this collection, Amanda responds to the timeless themes of land, sea, sky and trees. The images created do not reveal the landscape directly but are a response to what it feels like to be within the landscape; an impressionistic sense of the place, a moment of time, a response to light and colour.....

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exhibition open: 14.08.10 - 12.09.10

Working from photographs, Rona uses a monochromatic palate of oil on canvas to create stylised images of figures often bathed in ghostly hues of pinks, purples and blues. The exhibition showcases a body of work entitled Recapturing a Certain Youth alongside Rona’s most famous and highly controversial Bullingdon Painting......

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exhibition open: 10.07.10 - 08.08.10

Following the success of our Winter 2009 show, members of the Oxfordshire Printmakers Cooperative have been invited to show work again in the O3 Gallery this summer. O3 IMPRINT displays works by a selection of Oxfordshire printmakers, using various techniques.....

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exhibition open: 05.06.10 - 04.07.10

Sharona Katan exhibits her new collection of work entitled Stilleven. The work is inspired by the Flemish still life - 'stilleven' -from the 17th century, but uses photographic emulsion, exaggerated scale, and artificially coloured monochrome images to produce a 'cheap' modern take on the original Flemish displays of transient wealth.....

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exhibition open: 01.05.10 - 30.05.10

Artweeks at the Castle.

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exhibition open: 20.03.10 - 25.04.10

Following the success of Endnotes: Unwrapping Books, the curatorial team Metron have been invited back to the O3 to create another exciting exhibition of responses to books. To coincide with the Year of Science, Oxford University Press have kindly donated an interesting selection of journals, textbooks and literature all themed around Science for use by the participating artists.....

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exhibition opened: 20.02.10 - 14.03.10

Having studied at Henley College and Central St. Martins, Oxfordshire painter Bee Bartlett has continued developing her skills and exhibited widely since 2002, also participating in Oxfordshire Artweeks every year since then. She has also shown work with the Oxford Art Society and at Woodstock Art Festival....

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exhibition opened: 16.01.10 - 14.02.10

As a completely self-taught artist Vicky stared taking photos whilst travelling Australia back in 2003. Her love of the land and sea blossomed and after graduating in 2006 with a 2:1 in Graphic Design and Illustration and she combines the great outdoors with taking beautiful images mainly of landscapes and seascapes. This exhibition will feature a series of works created on her travels in Iceland....

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by Various Artists
exhibition opened: 28.11.09 - 10.01.10

Oxford Printmakers was set up in 1976 when a group of artists, many of whom were Ruskin School of Drawing leavers, felt the need to create facilities for continuing their work as there were none in the area. The group features many well known Oxfordshire printmakers and this show forms part of a much larger programme of exhibitions organised by the cooperative. ...

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by Ali Cockrean
exhibition opened: 24.10.09 - 22.11.09

Ali Cockrean is a successful expressionist painter who regularly exhibits her abstract work throughout the country. Her work already appears in collections across Europe, the US and Canada. Her career has been boosted by significant commissions and a rising national profile following the success of shows in London and regional galleries, with enthusiastic reactions to her recent collections Beyond the Verbal and Space in Mind. Ali has also featured on BBC TV, made several appearances on radio and had magazine/newspaper coverage...

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by Joe Bowes
exhibition opens: 19.09.09 - 18.10.09

Having been given an old Yashica camera by his granddad as a young teenager, Joe Bowes developed a great love and interest in photography. Education, however, led him in a different direction and Bowes studied Engineering before embarking on a successful career in the plastics sector and eventually setting up his own plastics engineering business. As his company grew and became established he found more time to return to his first passion – photography. Travel around various parts of the British Isles has enlivened his enthusiasm for the medium once more and he has, in recent years, started to share his work and experiences with others.

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exhibition opens: 02.09.09 - 13.09.09

Artists & Illustrators is the best-selling magazine for professional artists and aspiring amateurs. For more than 20 years, the magazine has provided inspiration and practical advice to its readers. Artists & Illustrators’ annual search for their Artist of the Year is one of the most prestigious open art competitions in the UK and we are pleased to announce it will be brought to you in association with the O3 Gallery...

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by Jesse Alexander
exhibition opens: 15.08.09 - 30.08.09

For millenia, and throughout every culture, the subterranean has been a setting for mythologies and folklore, with a prince of the underworld keeping guard in almost every known religion. Although caves and the the underground are culturally known for where beasts reside and where bad things can happen, they have also functioned as sites of initiation as well as provided shelter and sanctuary....

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by Tim Richardson
exhibition opens: 11.07.09 - 26.07.09

Tim Richardson has always been a practitioner in the arts. From an early age drawing on every available surface this eventually led to art college. Following a design based course his interests took him to London working for a landscape architectural practise and later graphics studios. With many disciplines learnt and contracts completed, the interest in colour led Richardson, in 2003, to hold his first solo exhibition of 30 paste paintings. Since then he has not stopped producing work to commission and holding two major shows a year.

The O3 gallery will be showing a selection of Richardson’s most recent work during the second half of July...

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by Various Artists
exhibition opened: 02.05.09 - 31.05.09

The O3 Gallery in Oxford welcomes an exhibition of stunning photographic images by local landscape and travel photographer Sarah Howard.
Following on from Sarah’s highly successful solo exhibition at the Mill Arts Centre in Banbury late last year, “In My View”, a month long show, previews at the Oxford Castle complex on June 6th and is set to inspire fellow photographers, artists and lovers of the landscape.
Since developing her interest in photography whilst traveling overseas, it has become an ever strengthening passion for Sarah who now devotes much of her time to creating her inspirational and evocative images. ....

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by Various Artists
exhibition opened: 02.05.09 - 31.05.09

A collaboration between the O3 Gallery, Oxford Artweeks and The Oxford Wine Company. A display of selected entries to the Artweeks Art Wine Competition including the overall winner.
Artists have been asked to design a wine label for a new premium, full-bodied red wine from an estate in the Languedoc region of France. Selected entries will be on show and available to purchase throughout Oxford Artweeks....

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Curated by Diane Jones-Parry and Annabel Ralphs (Metron)
exhibition opened: 28.03.09 - 26.04.09

Endnotes: Celebrating Books and Libraries. Curated by Diane Jones-Parry and Annabel Ralphs (Metron). Books which have reached the end of their shelf life were kindly donated by the Central Oxford Library. They were randomly selected with an emphasis on variety. Pairs of books with contrasting content were wrapped and selected unseen by the participating artists. Each artist was invited to respond to their books in any way they chose with an awareness of the possibilities offered by the O3 exhibition space. The responses have been extraordinary and imaginative; a varied and exciting interpretation of literature through other art forms. Featuring Painting, Sculpture, Animation, Film, Sound and movement performances...

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by Chris Perrett
exhibition opened: 21.02.09 - 22.03.09

Opened on Saturday 21st February, Escape is an exhibition of beautiful natural landscapes by South Oxfordshire artist Chris Perrett. Featuring abstract and semi-abstract works, the exhibition will introduce Perret’s style to a wider Oxfordshire audience. Perret studied at Wimbledon School of Art in London and frequently spends much of his time painting in Dorset...

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by Melissa Sturgeon
exhibition opened: 17.01.09 - 15.02.09

After developing a love of painting buildings and street scenes as a student of Falmouth School of Art Melissa Sturgeon has continued to represent this theme in her work. FAÇADE is her first major solo exhibition and features scenes of doorways and atmospheric street corners, capturing figures and architecture together in a splendid display of colour and detail...

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by Helen Pakeman
exhibition opened: 28.11.08 - 11.01.09

The O3 Gallery would like to welcome Helen Pakeman to exhibit her series of evocative portraits this holiday season. We have named the exhibition Eye to Eye since Pakeman’s drawings focus on striking portrayals of unknown faces, often women and children, who engage with the viewer through direct eye contact.

Originally from a retail background with franchises in The Body Shop, Helen Pakeman turned her back on business and started to train in Fine Art. She gained a degree in Drawing from Bath University in 2006 and has worked as an artist since, with group exhibitions in Swindon, Bath and Oxford Artweeks.

She also works as an illustrator for the Charity ‘Wells for India’ on a voluntary basis and is hoping to visit projects in Rajasthan in January/February 2009...

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by Kieran Stiles
exhibition opened: 25.10.08 - 23.11.08

This Autumn the O3 Gallery will present a selection of works by landscape painter Kieran Stiles to coincide with Oxford Castle’s Earth From The Air exhibition of photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

Kieran has exhibited in various galleries in London and Oxford and this exhibition follows the recent success of shows in Oxford’s Said Gallery and The Stables Gallery. Please join us to view brand new work by this talented painter...

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by Roddy McColl
exhibition opened: 20.09.08 - 19.10.08

The O3 Gallery is proud to present a series of stunning photographic images by Oxfordshire photographer Roddy McColl. The exhibition entitled Port Meadow: A Year in Photographs captures the many changes seen in this beautiful setting across a year. A selection of the images presented in this show have been exhibited at the Cherwell Boathouse earlier in 2008 and were described as "...moodily atmospheric..." by the Sunday Telegraph.

'Port Meadow is an incredibly exciting place for a photographer; the broad open space heightens appreciation of the subtle changes in landscape, not only through the seasons, but on a daily basis and in a way unrecognised by the city. Many landscape photographers make a special effort to exclude any sign of human activity, purely focusing on the 'unspoilt' beauty of a scene...

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by Various Artists
exhibition opened: 16.08.08 - 14.09.08

Selected local artists will show work on the theme of 'Alternative Oxford'. This open competition gave artists the chance to submit artwork that contributes to the idea of opening up unseen areas of Oxford, or is an innovative take on a traditional view. The twenty selected participants showing work in the exhibition live in the county and each artist has been asked to submit just one piece of work each. Every exhibit has it’s own unique story to tell and accompanying literature will add insight to the visual clues. We hope this exhibition will be a striking view of the city through the eyes of our artistic community. Selected work includes a wide range of media. Abstract paintings are juxtaposed with documentary photographs...

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by Stephen Gray
exhibition opened: 16.07.08 - 10.08.08

Treescapes & Skylines: An exhibition of Stephen Gray's current expressive series of ink and watercolour paintings, exploring the countryside and waterways where he lives in Oxfordshire. Stephen studied at the West Sussex College of Design and has a background in graphic design and illustration, working for design consultancies and advertising agencies in the UK and overseas. His paintings reflect aspects of his training and experience, showing a keen eye for graphic content, surface texture and detail, all tied to a strong use of colour. "The starting point with my painting, from the conceptual process through to the finished work, is influenced by location and the medium I'm using. This Treescape series is largely influenced by being out in the country...

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by Susan Bonham
exhibition opened: 07.06.08 - 06.07.08

Serendipity: Artist and Photographer Susan Bonham displays her recent collection of Contemporary Abstract Photographic prints in the O3 Gallery. These form part of a larger series of contemporary abstract composite images that were inspired by her long-term fascination with texture and colour found in the built environment. The images are a natural progression from the large abstract canvasses Bonham has painted previously, drawing on grid structures. Bonham is particularly interested in the relationships that are formed between the individual 'cells' within a grid and how these elements affect a whole composition.

Oxford Born Susan Bonham moved to Reading where she obtained an honours degree in Fine Art and Education...

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Various Artists
exhibition opened: 01.05.08 - 01.06.08

Across the month of May Oxfordshire displays its artistic talent in the visual arts realm through Artweeks, Oxfordshire’s annual festival featuring special exhibitions and open studios. The O3 Gallery will once again be hosting a special taster exhibition of selected works by participating Artweeks artists, featuring an accessible and diverse selection of work in a range of media.

Over 60 Artweeks artists submitted a piece for the exhibition, for reasons of space we have had to narrow that down to just over 20...

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Various Artists
exhibition opened: 29.03.08 - 23.04.08

The O3 Gallery welcomes several talented Oxfordshire children’s illustrators, including Korky Paul and Joanna Walsh, to display their current bodies of work. Coinciding with the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival and Oxford’s first Fringe Festival, this exhibition celebrates the crossing of boundaries between art and literature. The show will also feature a selection of works by local artists working with Books as their central theme, including photographic and sculptural pieces...

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by Lynette Kay
exhibition opened: 16.02.08 - 16.03.08

The O3 gallery welcomes abstract artist Lynette Kay. The Earth, Soul, Music exhibition will display her rich and textured canvasses for the first time in central Oxford...

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by Wilbur Heynes
exhibition opened: 12.01.08 - 10.02.08

Heynes returns to the O3 Gallery this January with a new body of work entitled 'Shine'. The collection includes new steel sculptures and a photographic series of refracted water abstractions.

Wilbur Heynes has evolved a natural abstract style that flows through all the branches of his work. The development of this technique presents each piece reduced to its purest element. Never seeking to dictate interpretation, every item engages the active imagination of the viewer to create a flexible and dynamic relationship.

Having read Classics at Nottingham University and studied portraiture in Italy before Fine Art at Guildhall, Heynes then worked as an assistant to the sculptor Hal Wilson, based in rural France...

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by Christine O'Sullivan
exhibition opened: 24.11.07 - 23.12.07

The O3 welcomes Banbury artist Christine O'Sullivan to display 'City Limits', a collection of bold canvasses combining strong colours and lines, inspired by the architectural urban landscapes of New York City. Her work takes pure abstraction into the world around us as she delights us with her vibrant use of colour and stimulates us with simplification of form. Working in series, the elements that make up an urban landscape - grid street patterns, road markings, neon colours, all find their way into her paintings. These elements abstracted result in a discordant mix of form and colour that resonate with the feel of the city...

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by Marc Allen
exhibition opened: 13.10.07 - 11.11.07

Lights Plays: Freeing Light From Fixed Form Meanings. An Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Art Photography by Oxfordshire artist Marc Allen.

'Light Plays' are the results of Marc Allen's photographic explorations and artistic research into removing light from fixed form meanings. Through his art, Allen aims to question how the viewer perceives and feels emotional responses to light. The word photography means drawing with light and LIGHT PLAYS gives meaning to drawing with light in the fullest sense. With no knowledge of what the final image will look like before the photograph is taken, Marc's serendipitous process, does not evoke an original object but creates an image of texture and colour...

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by Claire Wiltsher
exhibition opened: 08.09.07 - 07.10.07

Journeys: A few years ago Claire Wiltsher decided to embark on a personal adventure. She left her job, sold her house, packed her bags and started a series of journeys, personal travels to various corners of the world. Along her way she started a collection of sketches, notes and photos, along with the other paraphernalia that travelers accumulate. On returning home a rich catalogue of ephemera provided the ideas for something more stable and lasting...

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The Elegance, Power and Free Spirit of the Horse
exhibition opened: 04.08.07 - 02.09.07

The O3 Gallery is pleased to introduce a long awaited exhibition of three artists of considerable repute. The theme of this exhibition is the horse - a familiar part of the scenery in rural Oxfordshire. The exhibition will demonstrate the ability of our three artists to evoke the elegance, power and free spirit of horses and other animals. Our painters, Barrie Linklater and Neil Cawthorne have both been consistent award winners in the society of Equestrian Artists exhibition which is held annually in the Mall Galleries in London. Our Sculptor is Lorne McKean whose reputation relates to equestrian studies, both natural and sporting, as well as other subjects drawn from life and portraiture, including members of The Royal Family...

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by Peter Lavery
exhibition opened: 16.06.07 - 22.07.07

For the past twenty years Peter Lavery’s camera studies have been recording the ebb and flow of plant and animal life in the gardens, fields, and greenhouse at Brandiers Farm, his home in Wiltshire. His flower photographs - studies of moments of life and death - go beyond the ‘captured moment’ of traditional picture taking. By means of innovative camera work, these poetic floral portraits take photography to exciting new heights and may be said to encroach on the once exclusive territory of painting.

In rich, dramatic images that enhance our awareness of the world around us, Lavery’s pure forms demonstrate the abiding relationship between art and nature. A white penstemon, dew-spattered, at the pinnacle of floral perfection; rose petals, faded and fallen, the blooms in poignant decline; a lily, its once showy throat shriveling and limp...

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Various Artists
exhibition opened: 12.05.07 - 10.06.07

This group exhibition coincides with Oxfordshire's annual Artweeks festival, which features special exhibitions and open studios. Artweeks at o3 celebrates the dynamism of the festival by highlighting a diverse selection of work in a range of media. The exhibition aims to expose the breadth of artistic endeavour in the county, and as a result, features a colourful and accessible collection of artwork...

by Karen Purple
exhibition opened: 14.04.07 - 06.05.07

From April 14th The O3 Gallery will be presenting between here and there, a collection of new paintings on winter, weather and light by Oxfordshire artist Karen Purple. This body of work responds to the artist’s environment, with images being found and created while walking in the local landscape, where Purple observes the effect of weather and light, noticing the minute details around her. During these walks the artist fills notebooks with words and images, using as her materials found pigment or soil, river water or muddy puddles...

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Vanitas and The Seven Challenges of the Cnyht Bachelor by Justin Neal
exhibition opened: 12.05.07 - 10.06.07

Vanitas & The Seven Challenges of the Cnyht Bachelor; a series of photographs by Justin Neal which compare medieval values with those of contemporary society...

by Mark Thompson
exhibition opened: 03.02.07 - 11.03.07

Breaking Silence is collection of works on paper that Mark Thompson has made in response to the landscapes of the extreme North. The artist has travelled extensively in Iceland, Scandinavia and Alaska, exploring the territory that informs his work, often in extreme weather conditions. On the periphery of what is known geographically, Thompson hopes to reach the horizons of human memory and experience, in order to record these encounters on paper afterwards. "The work is, in a sense, an excavation of these experiences", Thompson says. "Watching a storm building as I descend a glacier, knowing it will be a matter of minutes before I am drenched to the skin; tracing the paths of rivers across tundra and exploring long forgotten buildings, feeling my boots punching through frozen crusts of snow...

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by Cambridge Jones
exhibition opened: 13.10.07 - 11.11.07

The RADA Centenary Portraits: a veritable ‘who’s who’ of British acting from stage and screen, captured by award winning photographer Cambridge Jones.

Since taking his first ‘celebrity portrait’ only two years ago, Cambridge Jones has quickly built up a respected reputation for photographing the rich and famous. From Prime Ministers to pop stars, Jones’ subjects cannot help but be striking, but his powerful images of them show us these well-known figures in a new light. For The RADA Centenary Portraits, which have been previously exhibited at The Getty Gallery, London and The National Theatre, Southbank, London. Cambridge Jones presents portraits of the great and good from British stage and screen, allowing his feel for dramatic and iconic images really to come into its own...

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by James Vinciguerra
exhibition opened: 11.11.06 - 03.12.06

A dynamic collection of colourful and lively prints and drawings by James Vinciguerra will be showing at the O3 Gallery this November. Vinciguerra's work, which features architectural landscapes of Oxford, Cornwall and London, amongst other locations, is created using a combination of traditional and new techniques. His process is initiated by drawing his subject in a variety of mediums, This could include mono-printing, studies in charcoal or colour pencil and collage. Viciguerra then scans the desired image into a computer and paints it digitally using the mouse as a tool in the same way that he might use a pencil or bruch, literally drawing with the mouse. The resulting painting is a luminous merging of hand drawn and digital paint...

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by Alison Lilley Berrett
exhibition opened: 06.10.06 - 05.11.06

A solo exhibition of abstract painting and drawings by Oxfordshire based artist Alison Lilley Berrett will be showing at The 03 Gallery in October… Working mainly with oil paints, pastels and charcoal, Nuneham Courteney based Berrett also uses photographs and drawings as preparatory tools for working on site. Her inspiration comes essentially from nature and is the result of a passion for colours, shapes, and patterns, found in the natural world. Her practice has been characterised by studies of landscapes; “I am captivated by the drama and magnificence of places like Dartmoor and the coast. The sea in its many moods has had a profound effect upon my work” and Berrett has been known to place herself in the most extreme weather conditions in order to capture the power of the wind and rain...

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by Wilbur Heynes
exhibition opened: 02.09.06 - 01.10.06

O3 Gallery presents a solo exhibition in steel and photograhy by Faringdon based artist Wilbur Heynes, showing for the first time in Oxford. From a background of classical training based on the figure, Heynes has evolved a naturally abstract style that flows through all the different areas he explores in his work. Through the development of his technique of working and reworking form until he can present each piece reduced to what he considers its purest element - his steel sculptures, whilst clearly figurative, are nonetheless abstracted. Likewise his large photographic prints are both of iconcic landscapes and of abstracted microcosms of them. Never seeking to dictate interpretation, every item engages the active imagination of the viewer to create a flexible and dynamic relationship between the real and imagined...

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by Belinda Durrant
exhibition opened: 05.07.06 - 30.07.06

Sculptural pieces and works on paper by Belinda Durrant examining the trappings of femininity, and desirability. A new exhibition at The O3 Gallery presents an intriguing collection of sculptural pieces and works on paper by Belinda Durrant. These works examine the trappings of femininity and question the conceived relationship between body shape and desirability. Durrant’s current line of inquiry has led her to study the constrictive qualities of corsetry, and the part it has played in the historical variation of the ‘ideal’ female shape. The corset has not only changed the size of the waist, but also moved it up and down to meet fashion’s demands...

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by Jude Wall
exhibition opened: 13.05.06 - 02.07.06

An exhibition of photographs that chart the extraordinary changes that have taken place in order to convert Oxford Prison and Castle into a brand new heritage and leisure quarter will form the inaugural exhibition at the new 03 Gallery, right in the heart of Oxford Castle.

Throughout the transition and re-forming of the ancient site into a vibrant modern destination and hotel Jude Wall was commissioned by Oxford Castle Ltd. to document the process of change, whilst reflecting with an artist's eye upon this. The resulting exhibition and publication is as much about aesthetics as it is about architecture. Within the images reside the memories or traces of an era long gone - a place of unimaginable hardship and cruelty, replaced now with smart restaurants and immaculately preserved heritage...

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