Welcome to The Bullpen

We are pleased to welcome you to The Bullpen - a family-run rural arts centre in the Vale of the White Horse in South Oxfordshire. The arts centre comprises foundry, gallery, studios and workshop room. Wesley & Helen Jacobs and Keith & Beth Jacobs began creating the Vale's contemporary arts centre in 2003, in partnership with local businessman John Logan. It has since grown steadily, with funding from grant awarding bodies and support from the local community.
 
Summer Exhibition
Muck Matters is an innovative exhibition of sculptures and the moulds they were cast from. On display are bronze and cast iron exhibits alongside their moulds of plaster clay/dung and sand, as well as jars of materials including buffalo dung and local clay used in The Bullpen Foundry.

Muck-Matters-website





 

What they say about The Bullpen:

Having spent a memorable afternoon and morning on a bronze casting workshop for non-artists, I can wholeheartedly recommend this type of event to anyone. As an art historian, it was especially valuable for me to be able to experience at first hand the process of making the type of object I spend my working life studying. Furthermore, coming to watch the final pouring of the hot molten bronze into our moulds was a thrilling experience.
Marika Leino, Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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