ARTEL is a group of professional artists who collaborate to exhibit their work whilst establishing a dynamic community. Working in the South Downs area, each artist has developed a unique and informed practice. The artwork from this covers a rich and diverse range of subjects and media shared through an annual show in Chichester at the Oxmarket Contemporary gallery.
2026 ++
Oxmarket Contemporary
13-25 October 2026
Opening times: 10am-4.30pm Tues-Sat; 12-4pm Sun;
(closed Mon).
St Andrews Court, off East Street, Chichester, PO19 1YH
2026 Exhibiting Artists:
2025 - THE SPACE BETWEEN
Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery
30 Sept - 12 October 2025
New work was created within the context of the artists ongoing practice that also considered this theme. Research resulted in final pieces that were provocative, playful, and profound, in drawing, sculpture, and painting.Maureen Brigden BA Fine Art
‘Sisterhood’
Ceramic
30 x 10cm each
Maureen’s work this year is a celebration of the worldwide network of female friendship, sharing through confidences, laughter or tears, we are all united.
Maureen works with clay and with a fascination with the material remains of our human history, the chosen themes for her work reflect local history and wider political and cultural events.
She works instinctively using different clays, endeavouring to release the narrative suggested within the material.
The process of hand-building and firing her sculptures renders the work vulnerable, capable of sagging, or at worst, collapsing. This then becomes part of the work. Often, the work has imperfections drawing parallels with the human condition. As a member of Artel, she regularly exhibits at the Oxmarket, Chichester, her work is mostly figurative and reflects her interest in history.
In 2015, Maureen won the Sculpture prize at the National Society of Painters, Printmakers and Sculptors’ Annual Exhibition, and had work selected for the National Open Arts Exhibition in Harrogate. In 2020 she won 2nd prize for her sculpture “Reaching Out” at the Knockout Lockdown Exhibition judged by sculptor, Phillip Jackson. In 2024 ‘People Like Us’ and 2025 ‘Unadorned’ were shown at the R.A Summer Exhibition.
www.maureenbrigden.co.uk
Insta: @mauree52