West Ox Arts Gallery presents ‘Holding and Yielding ‘
An exciting exhibition Holding and Yielding brings 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
Open Tuesday-Sunday 11.30 – 4.30
West Ox Arts Gallery
Market Square
Bampton
Oxfordshire
OX18 2JH
Admission: Free