Art Weeks Takeover

Art Weeks Takeover

Art Weeks Takeover

Friday 1 May to Saturday 30 May

Cornerstone Arts Centre comes alive this May for Oxfordshire Artweeks 2026, celebrating the incredible creativity of our local artistic community. Throughout the week, every corner of the building will be transformed with exhibitions, installations, and creative experiences to invite visitors of all ages to connect and reflect.

Exploring the theme of Stories of Arrival and Belonging, this exhibition will bring together a rich mix of voices and perspectives. Join us for a joyful celebration of creativity, community, and the many ways we find meaning and belonging through art.

In our Gallery

  • Amanda Benstead

    Exploring form, colour, texture & composition, my work is informed by a mixed media approach, employing multiple processes & materials including ceramics, metals, paper, wax, printmaking & textiles. Rather than beginning with the end in mind, outcomes emerge during the making.

    Insta: @acbenners Email: acbenners@yahoo.com

    Visit her Crafts Council website here

  • Catherine Rye

    Catherine Rye’s work is about Eleanor Glanville, the 17th century naturalist who has the only eponymous British butterfly. With embroidery, print, cyanotype, written word and video, Catherine invites you to step into Eleanor’s world.
    Visit her ARTWEEKS listing here

  • Sue Chamberlin

    Sue Chamberlin is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Oxfordshire. Her film Home was made in 2020. Whilst Sue’s mother-in-law was suffering from dementia, she kept asking to leave the care home and return to her house. This was very poignant; it made Sue consider “what does home mean to me?”.
    Visit her website here

  • Lin Dewsnap

    A Series of Photography in Nature: These images perfectly capture the intrinsic link between humanity and the natural world illustrating that we are not separate from but part of the environment. Highlighting how nature is a source of beauty and serenity, which foster wellbeing and a sense of connection and belonging. 

    Insta: @lindewsnap

    Visit her website here

In our Auditorium

  • SCRAPS

    The debut exhibition from queer art collective SCRAPS. Scraps are powerful. They can be stitched back together into something beautiful and strange and unique. The ordinary can be gorgeous.

In Our Study

  • Anna Lockwood

    Anna Lockwood paints birds as portraits against simple backgrounds, emphasizing posture and expression. Details suggest mood and humour. She highlights overlooked species, working with oil and acrylic in her Oxford studio.

  • Lola Knopp

    After a long hiatus, Lola has taken up painting again, mostly using acrylics on canvas. She is heavily inspired by her pet birds and trying to capture their unique personalities.

  • Linda Benton

    Didcot and local villages have inspired Linda Benton for over 40 years. She uses watercolour, ink and oils to capture the detail of her surroundings, and uses her art in public projects.

  • Peter Ritson

    Peter paints what inspires him from the simplicity of an object within a landscape, which captures how one can see joy in the simplest of our surroundings, to complex industrial paintings.

  • Gabriele Corda

    Gabriele’s aim is to use art to decode unique emotions evoked by objects, people, and landscapes into shapes and colours that first please him and, perhaps collaterally, please others.

In Our Makers Cabinets

  • Izabela Borzymowska

    Izabela first started working with ceramics in 1995. In her work you will find a strong Japanese influence. Izabela creates beautiful, functional pieces that can be used and enjoyed every day as well as forms worth displaying on a shelf. In her recent work she uses dark slips and light glazes to allow the simplicity of the form speak for itself.

  • Suri Poulos

    Colour and intricate decoration infuse the Porcelain clay itself, bypassing brushwork decoration. By layering slices of coloured clay, then symmetrically arranging, Suri Poulos’s functional Nerikomi vessels convey delicate beauty and mystery.

  • Nicola Murphy

    Nicola’s work is influenced by the textures, shapes, and patterns found in the landscape, which spark new ideas and designs. She often returns home with a pocket full of inspiration.

In our Milling Space

  • Merril Jacobs

    Merril’s photography and artwork captures authentic moments with a creative, thoughtful eye, blending storytelling and atmosphere to reveal unique perspectives, celebrating both everyday life and striking details across diverse environments.

  • Andy Page

    Andy Page says of his work: “The component parts of the Symmetry of Time in conjunction with the circle’s diameter of 116.14cm can be used to calculate its circumference and an alternative division of time.”