Artwork by Rachel Dixon, Clé Holly, Daisy J Hung, Kashmira Patel, Eileen Pun and Hanan Zein Eddin.
Taking over the WIndow Galleries on Friar's Entry this winter is a group show of Oxford based and associated artists - Rachel Dixon, Clé Holly, Daisy J. Hung, Kashmira Patel, Eileen Pun and Hanan Zein Eddin.
- Rachel Dixon: Explores themes of street interaction and resistance through a series of analog collage posters.
- Clé Holly: Presents close-up botanical portraits that treat flora as living, dignified presences to mirror human strength, curiosity, and resilience.
- Daisy J. Hung: Uses detailed hand embroidery recreating immigration documents to examine the barriers of migration and identity.
- Kashmira Patel: Displays tactile ceramic vessels that explore the shifting terrain between past and present, loss and hope, memory and inheritance.
- Eileen Pun: creates interactive botanical art to create a collaborative, art-based campaign addressing tropical deforestation and collective healing.
- Hanan Zein Eddin: Features a mixed-media painting depicting the destruction in Gaza to contrast world grief with the resilience and hope of its people.
Running from 23rd November 2026 to 10th January 2027
The Window Galleries, Friar's Entry, Oxford, OX1 2BY (near Gloucester Green)
Open 24/7 to the public view
About the Art Work and Artists
BLOWN UP - Rachel Dixon
"This group of collages came together by accident when I was pasting up stickers on Cowley Road. I was filming and had a random conversation with someone about what my work meant. The phrase ‘she will fight stolen magic’ seems somehow relevant for all the destructive things and people in the world that are trying to ‘steal magic’.
For the Window Galleries, the collages will be blown up and displayed as a series of A2 posters using the space as a gallery in contrast to my usual street art presentation. But don't forget to look out for street art. It's always nearby. "
Rachel Dixon creates analog collages, 3D objects and takes photos on the street. Sometimes putting her work out on the street for people to find and watching their reactions. Conversations, curiosity, laughter, disapproval. Working with a variety of things: magazines, people, food, rubbish, found objects, spray paint and words to create something unexpected. Always looking for inspiration everywhere.
> Rachel Dixon on Instagram @monkey_on_the_street
POSE: Intimate Portraits of Flowers and Plants - Clé Holly
POSE: Intimate Portraits of Flowers and Plants, photographer and multidisciplinary artist Clé Holly presents close-up botanical portraits that treat flora not merely as subjects, but as living presences with distinct personalities. Holly photographed the gardens at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. The resulting encounters showcase everything from vibrant blooms to overlooked lichen, celebrating dignity in all forms and mirroring a broader message of human resilience -particularly for women - to be seen as hardy, inquisitive, and strong.
Clé Holly, JD, LL.M, is an author, composer, and producer, having associate produced the GLAAD-nominated independent film “Our Son” (2023), starring Billy Porter and Luke Evans, and co-produced the independent film, “American Warrior” (2025), which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. She is also a recent Oxford graduate (MSc) and proud alumna of Green Templeton College, where these photographs were taken.
> POSE on Instagram @pose.portraits
Documented - Daisy J. Hung
Documented is a four-piece collection explores the bureaucratic, financial, and emotional complexities of navigating immigration and identity. Three hand-embroidered textiles on cotton thread transform UK immigration documents - a Tier 2 dependant visa, a distorted Indefinite Leave to Remain application reflecting proposed policy delays, and a naturalisation form - into physical markers of the onerous costs, implicit expectations, and administrative barriers imposed on migrants. The final large-scale piece (Knotted together) features sections of the UK, US, and Canadian flags joined by traditional Chinese cloverleaf and button knots, blending the artist’s triple nationality and ethnicity into a newly reimagined symbol of belonging.
Daisy J. Hung is a self-taught embroidery artist. What began as an activity that she learned to pass time while recovering from surgery (creating gifts and decorating clothes), became a key outlet to express her creativity and care. When Daisy’s not at her day job working as the Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division at the University of Oxford, she’s spending time with family and friends, writing, or telling stories with thread. What runs through all her roles as diversity practitioner, author (of non-fiction book I am Not a Tourist: What it Means to be British Chinese), and artist, is the desire to share lesser-known stories, fight for social justice, and build meaningful connections.
> Daisy J. Hung on Instagram @DaisyHungUK
> Website daisyjhung.com
BETWEEN MEMORY AND BECOMING - Kashmira Patel
Through five sculptural works, Kashmira Patel explore the shifting terrain between past and present, loss and hope, memory and inheritance.
One of the vessels on display is an exuberant celebration of colour, culture and connection. Vibrant threads, textiles, bells and playful marks come together on the surface, while language and symbolic details evoke memories, traditions and shared moments of joy. Each element adds movement, texture and sound, transforming the vessel into a joyful expression of heritage, belonging and celebration.
Kashmira Patel is a ceramic artist based in Oxford and India. She has exhibited in various exhibitions across Oxfordshire, London and has participated in residencies in India, Japan and Greece.
Rooted in the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi - the beauty of imperfection - her works celebrate contrasts: rough and smooth, raw and refined, grounded yet fluid. Each piece embodies an “imperfectly perfect” harmony, inviting tactile engagement and quiet reflection.
> Kashmira Patel on Instagram @playwithclay_by_kashmira
AILMENTS OF DEFORESTATION - Eileen Pun
AILMENTS OF DEFORESTATION is an interactive, experimental, dynamic, peaceful and art-centred example of collaborative, environmental activism that is evolving.
As part of the November Exhibition at the Windows Galleries, the project will launch an online interface allowing public contributions and access to the poetry cures from QR-codes displayed on the windows, adding a new layer of visibility of the campaign.
The new digital development of this artwork needs your enthusiasm, participation and solidarity in finding meaningful ways to register and heal our collective disease caused by tropical deforestation.
Eileen Pun is an interdisciplinary artist. Her textiles, botanical art pieces, and poetry have been performed, exhibited and published throughout the UK. Her passion for the protection of the tropics grew after working directly with local growers and artisans in Central America where she studied and collaborated with rainforest, permaculture projects. She has presented her artwork in several countries on themes including: movement, the meditative space, human & botanical relationships, colonial histories, self-sufficiency and Daoism. She considers her work to be an experiential ecosystem: living, integrative, interdisciplinary and international... an endeavour towards living creatively and harmoniously with/in nature.
> Eileen Pun on Substack https://frequencymonkey.substack.com/
> Clean up the Tropical TImber Trade on Instagram @CutCampaign
They See Hope! - Hanan Zein Eddin
They See Hope! is a mixed media painting inspired by the images that are pouring into our screens from Gaza. In this painting, Hanan Zien Eddin mimicks the destruction in War, yet captures what the people there are seeing versus what we are seeing as outsiders: We see rubble and destruction, while they see hope in the smallest single young leaf flourishing. They do not care about all the greyness and darkness of the world surrounding them. They see their homes, still, and saying that they will not leave, and they are staying no matter what.
"From a psychological perspective, I also see resilience and the willingness to overcome PTSD and defeat the trauma with the single, simple weapon of hope! Hope is what they see, even though the majority may not. Just like the trees are rebuilding themselves, their roots are there and they will emerge to re-build everything again."
Hanan Zein Eddin is a self-taught artist from Jordan, based in Oxford, UK. She started learning Arabic calligraphy from books when she was 12, and later took calligraphy courses to refine her skills. She found herself leaning towards Journal making and mixed media with a touch of her Arabic and Islamic culture. Her background of studying Psychology and working as a translator in that field inspired her also to look at things differently, and see more of how the language, culture, and healing go hand in hand, and how art can make all these things show up in a single piece of work that conveys emotions to the people who pay close attention to the details of that art.
> Hanan Zien Eddin on Instagram @HananZienEddin
