Current + upcoming events
A Time and Place with David Elliott
A Time and Place with David Elliot: Saturday 22 February 2025, 10-4pm
from £15.00
When? Saturday 22 February
10am-4pm with 45min for lunch
What? Join us for a guided workshop by art psychotherapist and visual artist David Elliot!
This 5 hour workshop invites you to connect with your surroundings through exploring place, memory and the present moment in unexpected ways
Together we’ll set off from OVADA on a sensory walk using sight, sound and smell to explore the local landscape through sketches, notes and recordings
Returning to OVADA we will rework these experiences and words into artworks and spontaneous poetry using abstract mark-making, tracing and mapping techniques
Everyone is welcome—just bring your curiosity!
Exhibition - A Time and Place | David Elliott
A one-day, solo exhibition with over 20 new works by David Elliott, to accompany the Time and Place workshop.
The exhibition is a presentation of transmedial works including/embracing landscapes, abstracts, assemblage, transfer print and working sketchbooks. The works were completed recently as part David’s MA in Fine Art with Falmouth University.
Inspired by an archive of family photos dating back to the early 1900's, David visited locations along the North Yorkshire coast - collecting found objects, making sketches and journal entries. Returning to the studio, David then worked through a series of creative processes to form spontaneous poetry, affective mapping, assemblages, abstract and landscape drawing and painting.
It was while working on this project that David developed the creative methods he will be sharing through a workshop at OVADA on the same day.
Entry to the exhibition is free.
For more info about the artist please visit https://www.studio-d.co.uk/
Red Clay Application Deadline
After the heartwarming success of last year’s Red Clay 2024 exhibition, we are thrilled to announce the open call for Red Clay 2025! The programme of events will run from Thursday 6 March to Sunday 13 April 2025.
In-Spire Sounds & Science Together
The event will exhibit the data alongside a documentary screening. Hear from the researchers and listen to some young people sing.
Before the Dust Settles
"The Naumkeag scourer is the particular part of a machine that my dad uses to reshape the soles and heels of shoes during the work of resoling. The leather traditionally used for a longsole has undergone a treatment to render it hard. As a result, when scoured down, the workshop at large becomes adorned with a light coating of leather dust. My grandad used to mix this same dust with the earth when feeding his fig trees. They have grown well and have outlived him. A cutting from one lives at my parents’ place.
And so, before the dust settles, you are invited to negotiate a multitude of objects, spaces, sounds and performance in an old warehouse which used to function as a leather skin market in the 1930’s. Let each enmeshed world intersect and overlap as an instrument of play grows within the warehouse." - Alexander Stavrou
Sculptural Ceramics with Kashmira Patel
In these workshops you will be shown basic hand-building techniques using slabs, pinching, moulding, coiling and using different textures as well as how to use glazes. Kashmira will lead the workshop in two sessions and you will experience the feel of ‘play with clay’, as she describes her ceramic art practice.
Red Clay 2025 Online Q&A Session with Mita Vaghela
OVADA's director Mita Vaghela, will be holding an online Q&A session on Monday 23 September 2024 from 7 - 8pm BST to answer any of your questions about the Red Clay 2025 open call and your application
Please fill out this form to be sent a link to this Q&A Zoom session
Concave Festival
Join us for a delightful mix of food, community, music and art
Celebrate creativity and connection in a vibrant open day atmosphere here at OVADA Warehouse Gallery
Silkscreen Printing with Berkshire Printmakers
This is a fun, creative workshop, during which you will have plenty of time to try out the technique under the guidance of two expert printmakers. The workshop will take you step by step through; how to get to grips with a squeegee and to create a print using paper stencils and water-based inks. You will explore how to combine the paper stencils with Berkshire Printmakers large library of patterned screens to make complex multilayered prints. You will also learn the difference between optical and physical colour mixing with translucent colours and apply them to your printmaking. At the end of the workshop, you will have produced (more than) several prints, using at least two colours, and probably more.
Watercolours with Prasad Beaven
This workshop delves into the principles of yin and yang from Chinese philosophy, emphasising the importance of both painted and unpainted areas in creating harmonious watercolour art. You will explore how negative space can enhance your compositions, bringing balance and depth to your paintings.
You will look at examples of negative space, discuss, and share how it can create balance and harmony in a painting before watching a live painting demonstration of a nature abstract scene to see those principles in action.
Life In Oxford
"LIFE IN OXFORD" is a unique art exhibition curated by RAWZ, as part of the year-long ArtUnity project.
This event features an inspiring collection of works from talented Oxford artists, reflecting on the city's dynamic culture, diverse communities, and rich history.
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