The Old Brick Workshop is home to Wellington's very own Contemporary Art Gallery

The Gallery was launched in October 2015 as venue No. 1 for Somerset Arts Weeks Festival.
It was host to 13 contemporary artists and attracted over 800 visitors to its inaugural event.

A full program of exhibitions have been hosted throughout the following nine years. Shows that were modern, thought provoking and diverse. We're looking forward to bringing artists and the community together for many more exhibitions and events in the coming year.

Joint Exhibition

PARALLEL DREAMS

By Jenny Graham & Owen Meredith

7 - 22 June 2025

Open Wednesday - Sunday 10am - 4pm

Opening Event 6 June

6pm - 8pm (everyone welcome)

In this joint exhibition both Jenny Graham and Owen Meredith take their inspiration from the natural world around them. Jenny creating a feeling for time, place, season and weather in her paintings using cold wax and oil. Owen working in wood and metal to create sculpture with exciting contrast and contradiction with endless possibilities of shape and form.

Statement from Artist Jenny Graham:

All my work is inspired by my love of the landscape: its colours and forms, its changes from day to day and season to season. Whether I’m working abstractly or figuratively it’s these things which continue to challenge and fascinate me. Every piece is a new adventure and I am always learning and exploring different ways to express my constant obsession with the natural world.

The paintings in this exhibition represent work completed over the past 5 years.

The oils are created in my studio from sketches and photographs. I spend days or weeks slowly building up the layers using a combination of oil and cold wax medium which adds additional texture. I am not aiming for an exact copy of the location but rather a feeling of time, place, season and weather.

The watercolours are a far more direct record of a specific place, created over a few hours either on location or back in my studio from extensive photographic reference.

I have a MA in Multi-disciplinary Printmaking from the University of the West of England and am a member of Somerset Printmakers and Albatross Print Studio in the UK.

Jenny Graham

07743 132157

Instagram: @jennygrahamartist

Jennygrahamartist@gmail.com

Statement from Artist Owen Meredith

I am based near Taunton and produces sculpture predominantly in wood and metal. With a background in forestry, chainsaw sculpture was a natural outlet for my early creativity. Metal work adds an unique dimension offering endless possibilities of shape and form. The two materials are very different but together create exciting opportunity of contrast and contradiction. My inspiration comes from many sources but is broadly based on natural form and processes from the Somerset landscape.

Owen Meredith

07875 445202

Instagram: @owen_meredith_sculpture

owenmeredithsculpture@gmail.com

The Gallery is now available to hire for exhibitions and events. Please contact Alison on 07989 465427 or email alison@theoldbrickworkshop.com for details.