Past Exhibitions
Holy Craft!
Join us on 25 March at 6:30pm at OVADA for the premiere of Holy Craft!, a series of short films celebrating craftsmanship, our relationship with the objects in the world around us, sustainability, heritage, and the creative process.
DreaMFActory 2022
DreaMFActory 2022 is an interim exhibition of work by students from the MFA Fine Art programme at Oxford Brookes.
OVADA Sunday Hang-outs
Experience local art, meet other creatives and grab a drink from our bar for a cosy, creative evening in the warehouse.
concave 2022
We would like to invite you to our annual open day and ask you to bring your memories of our area and of us to contribute to our Local Archive Project.
Incorporating our postponed Sunday Hangout we will have an in-an conversation with artist Karima Brooke at 5pm and a pop-up exhibition with previous featured artists.
OSR 2022: Work in Motion
Come and see what our wonderful summer residents have been working on this month in the warehouse…
PoeTree
Contemporary art and poetry on the theme of trees by three invited artists from Bonn, together with three artists from Oxford.
Duende
Come and support these students and see art works created to celebrate their respective cultural heritage following a series of workshops exploring language division, oral histories, music, poetry, fashion and textiles.
un/re/dis/cover
un/re/dis/cover will feature the work of OVADA’s eight resident artists.
Think Human
An interactive augmented reality installation by award winning poet Jay Bernard.
Holly Hewitt
We are so excited to introduce Holly Hewitt as one of our newest studio artists at OVADA. Come along to see a range of the multi-disciplinary work Holly produces.
HATCHED21
OVADA welcomes you to visit HATCHED21 who are exhibiting with us as part of the 2021 Photo Oxford Festival programme of events.
The Hidden Noise: Tinnitus and Art
OVADA is delighted to host an exhibition of work by commissioned artists Fern Thomas and Nina Thomas, who are set to transform our warehouse into a multi-layered exploration of their shared experiences of tinnitus.
Twenty Twenty One
OVADA presents highlights from the 2020 and 2021 Oxford Brookes Masters in Fine Art graduation show. This will be the first time these works have been open to view: due to the pandemic, the 2020 cohort held their final show entirely online, while the 2021 group installed a physical show but were unable to open to the public.
Autonomy – Warehouse Art School Exhibition 2021
The seven artists exhibiting work this year range from video,
performance, installation, painting and 3D sculptural work- all
completed during the last three months of the year-long course.
HOME-ing: a live art odyssey on foot from London to Wales
Wearing a costume of the word ‘HOME’, artist Harriet Hill will perform a month-long walk from her home in South-East London to her childhood home in Mid Wales.
Unprecedented
Unprecedented will be an exhibition of collective work created since March 2020 when the Coronavirus pandemic hit.
Three weeks in lockdown 2020 – Alice Brookes
Three weeks in lockdown is a project documenting murdered women over a 3 week period.
PhotoOxford 2020
40 images from our Open Call competition, selected by our panel of experts and by public vote on Photocrowd, exploring the theme ‘Women & Photography: Ways of Seeing & Being Seen.’
Emergence
Welcome to the seventh Warehouse Art School Exhibition.
The eight artists exhibiting work range from video, performance, installation, painting and 3D sculptural work- all completed during the last three months of the course.
Virtual Life Drawing Exhibition
Our next virtual exhibtion showcases work created within our experimental life drawing class.
Virtual Artweeks Painting Exhibition
We are delighted to showcase the amazing work produced by the participants and tutors of our Contemporary & Extended Painting courses!
Christmas Light Festival
The annual festive celebration draws in local communities and visitors into Oxford’s city centre and is a highlight of Oxford’s cultural calendar.
Humachine Flux
Digital Artist Residency and OVADA present a showcase of new work by six artists who are exploring a variety of digital processes and examining themes encountered by post-digital culture.
Body Language
OVADA proudly presents a selection of new work created by our experimental Life Drawing class participants. This exhibition is held in memory of our friend, Kate Kay.
What Happened Here
OVADA proudly hosts the sixth end of year show for the Warehouse Art School Continuing Practice Course. With eleven committed and hard working students on the course, this year has been a lively and busy one for all concerned.
Seven Counties Open
The OVADA Seven Counties Open provides exhibition opportunities, support and development for contemporary artists based in Oxfordshire and the surrounding Counties of Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, Wiltshire and Warwickshire.
CHROMANTICS at Cornerstone Gallery
Chromantics: A selection of artworks from OVADA’s Associate Artists come together for a dramatic celebration of colour through paintings, drawings, prints, photography and sculpture.
Neither Use Nor Ornament
Neither Use Nor Ornament (NUNO) is an exhibition of new work that explores the way that we use everyday objects – like bottles, handbags and wool – to store our memories. By keeping collections of precious things, we create histories of love and loss, happiness and grief. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and possessions that hold great meaning for us may look very ordinary to everybody else.