The West Ox Arts Gallery in Bampton presents an exciting exhibition Holding and Yielding bringing together collaborative sculptures by artists Helen Pakeman and Mary Norowzian.

The work explores materiality as a way of understanding lived experience: how we hold,

change, connect and endure through time.

Using ancient stones from the UK and Ireland and ephemeral Carex grass, the works

consider shifting ideas of strength and fragility, permanence and impermanence.

An installation of flint, chalk and grass maps relationships between solidity and fragility, while

monoprints and cyanotypes extend these material dialogues.

Helen Pakeman is a multidisciplinary artist working with soft basketry, foraged fibres,

sculpture and installation.

Mary Norowzian brings a materially sensitive practice rooted in carving stone as a way of

translating emotional and bodily experience into form: ‘the shapes of

feeling’.

Holding and Yielding A collaborative exhibition by Helen Pakeman and Mary Norowzian

3– 31 October 2026

Opening reception : Saturday 3rd October 12 – 2pm

Sundays: Meet the Artists 11.30am – 3.30pm

West Ox Arts Gallery, Market Square. Bampton OX18 2JH