The South Street Gallery

16 May to 27 June 2026

Pain is invisible - often misunderstood and hard to express.

'What We Carry' is a two-year collaborative project with individuals living with chronic pain and artist Marysa Dowling.

Using photography, writing, mark-making and storytelling, participants explore new ways to express what's been trapped inside.

At its core, the project addresses a universal need: to be seen, understood and believed.

Created in collaboration with individuals living with chronic pain, Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre and the Chronic Pain Neurotechnology Network.

This exhibition is part of Photo Oxford. 

Please visit:

Marysa Dowling What We Carry: Living with Pain - Photo Oxford

4 April to 16 May 2026

This exhibition showcases the intricate lino prints of Oxford and its surrounding villages by Jenny Dingwall.

Born and raised in Combe, Oxfordshire, she takes inspiration from the amazing architecture and uses black and white to explore the balance of light and dark.

With a background in mathematics, you can often find mathematical principles such as pattern and symmetry in her work which combine to create a harmonious piece of art.

We hope you enjoy the results. 

Jenny Dingwall Lino Prints

28 February to 4 April 2026

Embers of Care is a 100-artwork series of portraits celebrating the strength, resilience and contributions of migrants in the UK health sector.

Embers of Care Presentation - YouTube

This exhibition includes new portraits of eight staff working in our Oxford hospitals, and tells their stories of coming to the UK to work, leaving behind family and friends. They are accompanied by portraits of other NHS staff from across the UK.

John Yayen is an artist and nurse from Palawan, in the Philippines.

Through his art, Yayen seeks to promote social cohesion, and to bring visibility to the often unseen hands and overlooked stories in the healthcare system.

10 January to 28 February 2026

Oxford-based journalist and photographer Robert Edwards is channeling his passion for the natural world into a positive local effort, bringing wildlife photos captured during his travels to patients and staff at the Churchill Hospital.

Inspired by his own mother's cancer journey, his exhibition features wildlife portraits from across Latin America, western Scotland and southern England, offering visitors a moment of calm and escape through encounters with nature.

Funds for this exhibition were generously donated by friends, family and colleagues and by Soroptimist International of Oxford and District.

All proceeds from print sales will go to Oxford Hospitals Charity.

Follow Robert on Instagram @robertpedwards

29 November 2025 to 10 January 2026

Morna Rhys and Jane Peart are two artists who have worked and exhibited together for over 20 years.

Morna is exhibiting her atmospheric etchings of Welsh mountains, as well as other landscape and botanical prints, and Jane is showing her highly detailed etchings, digital drawings and paintings of far away places and the animal world.

They hope you find beauty and peace in looking at their work.

6 September to 18 October 2025

A group exhibition which comprises six separate bodies of work by six individual photographers.

There is no link between the subjects, as the photographers were given completely free choice and each chose a topic of personal interest.

The six have built up their projects over a period of months, during which they consulted with photography teacher and mentor, Rebecca Phillipson, to shape and prune their ideas into the accomplished work that appears on the walls.

The photographers are:

• Lajla Johanssen
• Anna Ottaway
• Nick Rose
• Elizabeth Shand
• Nick Welch
• Carolyn Wheeler

We hope there is something for everyone here, from nature in the form of butterflies, birds and flowers, to documentary projects about issues of wide interest, such as water, children and technology.

19 July to 6 September 2025

A photographic exhibition featuring the work of five advanced photography students, who each have built up a body of work on a subject of personal interest, under the guidance of tutor Rebecca Phillipson.

The selection includes:

• Helen Roper
  Dogs as companions for the bereaved
• Jane Burke
  Ireland visualised through the eyes of Seamus Heaney
• Jane Kennett
  Seeing things differently (from unexpected viewpoints)
• Howard Davies
  People enjoying art
• Sarah Reed
  Impressionist images of Cotswold woodlands, using intentional camera movement