Projects

Od Arts Festival 2025 – Thinking in Circles creates conversations through art, film and performance in rural Somerset, including a six-month programme of creative activities, culminating in a three-day festival in May 2025.

We hosted 'An introduction to hand building with clay' free to residents of specific areas in the parishes East Coker and West Coker.

Od Arts Festival returned, Friday 26 May to Sunday 28 May, and was a packed programme of art and community activity! The festival takes its name from the Od: [Od pronounced Odd] a crooked stream that meanders through the neighbouring villages of East and West Coker, Somerset, UK.

OSR Projects has been invited to take over the Arnolfini theatre space. With Andy Parker, Sam Jukes and Simon Lee Dicker.

This event will bring artists, curators and cultural producers together in rural Somerset to consider how art can open up new encounters with, and ways of thinking about rural places in the context of an ever more interconnected world.

A big well done to the year 5 & 6 pupils from East Coker School that took part in our 4 week pottery course.

Organised by SLUICE (UK) and PADA (Portugal) and run in conjunction with Lisbon Art Weekend, Territory brought together 32 artist and curator-led projects from 17 countries showing over 80 artists in 17 venues throughout Barreiro, Lisbon.

Can you believe we’re 10 years old? Thank you everyone who has helped bring a creative sparkle to this small corner of South Somerset over the past ten years.

An exhibition of new work by artist Angela Charles exploring notions of ‘seeing’ in art from the perspective of a visually impaired painter (with gerbil coloured hair).

Od Arts Festival is a new contemporary biannual arts festival in rural Somerset. Takes place over May bank holiday weekend.

A day of presentations, conversations and provocations, exploring aloneness through the lens of geography, technology and disability.

Lockdown Pottery is a creative ceramics collective set up during the 2020 Covid19 pandemic to learn about life through making with clay.

When we moved into The Old School Room in 2011 it came with a very tired looking Village Noticeboard and we have always planned to replace it. Finally ten years later, here it is.

Part of SLUICE Exchange 2018, a peripatetic biennial expo which brings together 20 visiting galleries and projects from around the globe, this latest edition of the Weather Station focuses on the work of four British artists currently based in the UK, Sweden and USA.

Tom Smith’s performance Messages from Friends charts his relationship with TV from the age of 12. Over the course of 35 minutes Tom stitches together personal anecdotes to talk about a wider range of subjects such as nostalgia, stagecraft, and spectatorship.

Od Arts Festival is a new contemporary arts festival in rural Somerset.

Build Your Own Art World brought together artists, curators and cultural producers in rural Somerset to consider: What does it mean to be artist-led? Is there an alternative to a global gallery system? How do you build your own art world?

Ropewalkers brings together new work by artists Jo Ball, Andy Parker and Simon Whetham made in response to the architecture, history and materials of Dawe’s Twineworks Museum and social history project.

Weather Station (Part II) project took place during 2016 and brought together work by artists...

In 1965 Gene Bernofsky, Jo Ann Bernofsky and Clark Richet graduates of the University of Kansas desired to live and work together free from the hierarchies and restrictions of mainstream life so moved to a plot of land near Trinidad Colorado and built an experimental settlement they named ‘Drop City.’

A one day Seminar Exploring embedded approaches to place-based contemporary art practice.

The landscape is punctuated by a giant golf ball. Balanced on a platform of scaffold it has the best of views. For years I have passed at speed, attracted to its simplicity of form, an historical vision of a future architecture.

Uneven Territories is an exhibition of new and previously unseen paintings and drawings that, alongside key work made since 2006, forms an uncensored view of Michael Calver’s output.

This pilot project took place at the OSR Project Space in West Coker (formerly known as the Old School Room) with workshops run by artist Simon Lee Dicker and Graphic Designer Chantelle Henocq.

The Golden Space City of God by Richard Grayson, the first solo exhibition to be held at the OSR Project Space by a major international artist, is a large-scale video installation with sound featuring a choral work performed by a 26 piece choir.

Palaces & Cabins is a project instigated by OSR Projects for Salisbury Art Centre (SAC), bringing together a number of artists, curators and cultural producers to work as a collaborative group.

BRG Collective’s occupation of the OSR Project Space explores the hypothetical notion of what it would be like for this geographically dispersed artist group to share a collective studio.

Mediators is a video installation by Kyiv based artist collective R.E.P. Group (Revolutionary Experimental Space).

With a sense of detachment from the notion of the artist’s studio as romantic atelier, Everything and More presents a collision of ideas, images, objects, live work and creative detritus left behind by the latest incarnation of the transitional artist group OSR Projects.

Nothing Ever Happens looks at landscape and man’s search for meaning in nature; seeking isolation, meditation, solitude and sanctuary in a more natural environment.

From pin badges or artisan cheese to pandas, gifts often represent something unique and emblematic about their place of origin. 

The Old School Room has been a venue for learning, meeting and celebration since its establishment in 1850 and as part of 'Show & Tell'

The exhibition’s title Under a New Sun relates to the Anglo-Saxon naming of Somerset – Sumorsaete – as ‘the people of the summer lands’,