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Visit the We’re Here Now pop-up Gallery Shop, a fantastic collection of original art and design pieces made by students and alumni of the Creative Arts and Design Practice course at Banbury & Bicester College. The shop is open Monday – Saturday, 10am … Read More
Exhibitions & Events May – June 2015 We’re Here Now! 2015 We’re Here Now! is BACK. Around 300 people came to the opening event at the Castle Quay Shopping Centre in Banbury. For a second year Martin Carrolchick and Neil Mabbs have taken over empty units and … Read More
Our 6 month Bees & Weeds research project has finally delivered results. During the past week we adopted guerrilla marketing tactics to promote the project, carrying out interventions in the streets of Oxford – installing and photographing cycle seat covers on scores … Read More
At the end of February some of the students involved in our Bees & Weeds project submitted their designs and artwork to the brilliant Old Fire Station Arts Centre Gallery/Shop. Success!! All of the work submitted was accepted and will … Read More
What a work of art this place is! The lovely people at Broken Spoke Bike Co-op have invited our art & design students to join one of their open workshop sessions to install cycle seat covers they’ve been working on for our Bees & … Read More
Neil Mabbs’ beautiful designs for cycle seat covers for our Bees & Weeds project are cyanotypes printed onto organic calico cloth. The wild flower illustrations are sourced from six volumes of English Botany or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, by English … Read More
Christmas at The Old Fire Station, Oxford Giving unique locally crafted gifts this Christmas will support an emerging sustainable economy and help prevent your purchase from ending up buried in a landfill site by January. Christmas creates an enormous amount … Read More
We’re here now! during the summer of 2014 was the first of a series of festivals of visual arts, showcasing the work of fine art, design and craft students, as well as allumini, from Banbury & Bicester College and Oxford … Read More