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The project has currently taken up residence at 106 New Oxford Street, a former restau

OHSH Projects is a nomadic project space, conceived in 2021 by Henry Hussey and Sophia Olver from the desire to create tactile conversations between artists and spaces.

03/10/2026

𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓: ‘Your thwarts in pieces, your mooring rope cut’ (2026) by Rosie McLachlan.

McLachlan’s mother is often obliquely present in her work, appearing through titles or gestures rather than direct representation. While making this sculpture, however, a face began to emerge that unexpectedly revealed itself as her mother’s, a likeness formed by the artist’s hands thirteen years after her death.

The title comes from an ancient Assyrian elegy preserved on a damaged cuneiform tablet from the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. Addressing a woman in mourning, it asks: “Why are you adrift, like a boat, in the midst of the river, your thwarts in pieces, your mooring rope cut?”

Within FLOOD, this image of being unmoored connects the work to ideas of loss, survival and what is carried forward. McLachlan describes the pregnant body as a vessel, holding grief and memory alongside the possibility of continuation. The work brings mourning and renewal into the same form, suggesting that what survives after rupture may be carried within us.

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FLOOD
Curated by OHSH Projects and Messums West
Until 3 October 2026
Messums West, Wiltshire

02/10/2026

𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓: ‘Ah-rah-hid’ (2026) by Gus Farnes.

Gus Farnes’ practice draws on standing stones, cairns and ancient forms of monument-making, exploring the ways objects have been used by communities to establish identity, orientation and belief.

In ‘Ah-rah-hid’ (2026), a towering bronze form resembles an enlarged worked flint or primitive human tool, surmounted by a shape that can be read as both an eye and a sun. The sculpture feels at once archaeological and otherworldly, like an artefact recovered from an unknown civilisation. FLOOD-EXHIBITION-TEXT_PRINT.pdf

Within FLOOD, the work evokes the tools, markers and monuments through which knowledge and belief endure. Positioned between relic and imagined future, it suggests the human impulse to leave signs behind, creating objects that might survive us and help orient whatever comes next.

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𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓
Presented by OHSH Projects and Messums West
5 September - 3 October 2026
Messums West, Place Farm, Court Street
Tisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW

Open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pm

01/10/2026

𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓: ‘Wreck’ (2026) by James Devereux.

James Devereux’s practice explores material, transformation and the traces left by time, creating works that often feel suspended between artefact and abstraction.

In ‘Wreck’ (2026), glass is formed into a long, fragmented structure that evokes the remains of an ancient shipwreck, submerged on the ocean floor before being discovered and brought back to the surface.

Within FLOOD, the work becomes an image of retrieval. Altered by time and imagined immersion, it returns not intact but as evidence, carrying the marks of what it has endured and reflecting the exhibition’s wider concern with what survives, resurfaces and is carried forward after catastrophe.

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𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓
Presented by OHSH Projects and Messums West
5 September - 3 October 2026
Messums West, Place Farm, Court Street
Tisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW
Open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pm

30/09/2026

WHAT SURVIVES THE FLOOD?
Myth, memory and material transformation
𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓 closes this Saturday, 3 October. To mark the exhibition’s final day, join us at Messums West for a panel discussion chaired by Alice Workman with exhibiting artists Laurence Edwards, Clementine Keith-Roach, Jonathan Michael Ray and Chantal Powell.

Laurence Edwards, Arbour no2, 2026
A human figure merges with vegetal forms, with traces of growth and decay cast permanently into bronze.
Bronze, 230 H × 100 W × 50 D cm. Edition of 5.

Clementine Keith-Roach, Guardian of Nothing, 2025
A female body fused with a terracotta vessel, exploring the body and object as containers for memory, care and continuity.
Terracotta vessel, plaster, epoxy putty, modelling paste and acrylic paint, 45 H × 42 W × 60 D cm.

Jonathan Michael Ray, Argia, 2026
Inspired by ancient inscribed stones, the work asks what remains when an object survives but the culture that could fully read it has disappeared.
Stone, enamel paint and wood, 141 H × 51 W × 28 D cm.

Chantal Powell, The Guardians, 2026
A group of totemic figures drawing on archetype, ritual and protection, gathered as presences at the threshold of an altered world.

Saturday 3 October, Messums West, Tisbury
Refreshments from 1pm
Panel discussion 1.30–2.30pm

This Saturday is also the final day to see FLOOD.

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𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓
Presented by OHSH Projects and Messums West
5 September - 3 October 2026
Messums West�, Place Farm, Court Street
Tisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW
Open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pm

29/09/2026

𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓: Last week to visit at Messums West, Wiltshire

Open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Messums West, Place Farm, Court Street
Tisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW

Dale Adcock Dale Adcock
Carl Anderson 𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖑 𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖔𝖓
Sol Bailey Barker Sol Bailey Barker
Dien Berziga Dien Berziga
James Devereux James Devereux
Laurence Edwards Laurence Edwards
Gus Farnes Gus Farnes
Elisabeth Frink RA
Guy Haddon Grant
Nicola Hicks
Mark Jackson
Ben Jamie Ben Jamie
Clementine Keith-Roach Clementine Keith-Roach
Rosie McLachlan Rosie McLachlan
Rory Menage rorymenagesculpture
Jonathan Michael Ray Jonathan Michael Ray
Miroslav Pomichal Miroslav Pomichal
Chantal Powell Chantal Powell, PhD
Hannah Rowan
Tim Shaw RA
Becky Tucker Becky Tucker
Carlos Zapata Carlos Zapata

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𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓
Presented by OHSH Projects and Messums West
5 September - 3 October 2026

Photography by Jon Baker

28/09/2026

𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓: ‘Missioner’ (2026) by Carlos Zapata.

Carlos Zapata’s practice draws on religion, migration, conflict and South American folk traditions, creating carved figures that move between witness, devotional object and social commentary.

In ‘Missioner’ (2026), a monumental polychrome wooden figure is embedded with coins resembling votive offerings, giving the sculpture the presence of both guardian and object of devotion.

Positioned at the entrance to FLOOD, Missioner acts as a sentinel to the exhibition. Its combination of ritual, protection and offering introduces ideas that recur throughout the show, asking what we preserve, what we sacrifice and what we turn to when faced with forces beyond our control.

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𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓
Presented by OHSH Projects and Messums West
5 September - 3 October 2026
Messums West, Place Farm, Court Street
Tisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW
Open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
and Sundays 10am - 2pm

27/09/2026

𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓: ‘Mummer’ (2025) by Tim Shaw RA.

Tim Shaw RA’s practice draws on mythology, ritual, conflict and the darker dimensions of human experience. Working across sculpture and installation, he creates figures that often feel caught between the contemporary world and much older traditions of ceremony, belief and transformation.

Carved from Monterey pine, ‘Mummer’ (2025) takes its name from the Irish tradition of mumming, in which masked performers enact rituals associated with seasonal death and rebirth, reconciliation and renewal.

Within FLOOD, the monumental figure stands as a sentinel at the edge of the exhibition. Its presence connects the inherited rituals of mumming with the guardians, talismans and protective forms that recur throughout the show, suggesting how archetypal figures can survive across generations and return at moments of uncertainty and change.

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𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓
Presented by OHSH Projects and Messums West
5 September - 3 October 2026
Messums West, Place Farm, Court Street
Tisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW
Open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
and Sundays 10am - 2pm

26/09/2026

𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓: ‘Tidal Anatomy (lithos)’ (2026) by Hannah Rowan.

Hannah Rowan’s practice explores the relationship between bodies, water and geological matter, treating the body as porous and materially continuous with its environment. Her works often bring organic and mineral materials into close relation, collapsing distinctions between human form and landscape.

In ‘Tidal Anatomy (lithos)’ (2026), unglazed stoneware and mixed media come together in a form that feels at once bodily, geological and archaeological.

Within FLOOD, the work speaks to the idea of the body as something shaped by the same forces as the landscape around it. Water, stone and flesh become part of a shared material cycle, suggesting transformation not as a single event, but as a continual process of erosion, accumulation and renewal.

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𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓
Presented by OHSH Projects and Messums West
5 September - 3 October 2026
Messums West, Place Farm, Court Street
Tisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW
Open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
and Sundays 10am - 2pm

25/09/2026

𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓: ‘Loop and Line’ (2026) by Rory Ménage.

Rory Ménage’s practice draws on traditions of statuary and portraiture while pushing the human figure towards abstraction. Working through carving and material resistance, he considers what it means to make physical objects in an increasingly screen-based culture.

Carved from oak, ‘Loop and Line’ (2026) retains a strong sense of the hand and tool: the grain, weight and resistance of the timber remain central to the work.

Within FLOOD, the sculpture returns attention to an elemental relationship between body, tool and matter. Its carved form feels both ancient and unresolved, connecting the act of making in the present to longer histories of sculpture, survival and material memory.

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𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓
Presented by OHSH Projects and Messums West
5 September - 3 October 2026
Messums West, Place Farm, Court Street
Tisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW
Open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
and Sundays 10am - 2pm

24/09/2026

𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓: ‘Untitled’ (2026) by Guy Haddon Grant.

Guy Haddon Grant’s practice uses casting, accumulation and erasure to create fragmented figures and structures that appear recovered rather than newly made. His works often hover between the bodily, architectural and archaeological, carrying traces of memory, damage and transformation.

In ‘Untitled’ (2026), plaster, terracotta, steel, glass and Indian ink are brought together into a tall, fragmentary form, as though partially excavated from an uncertain past.

Within FLOOD, the work becomes an archaeological remnant: something that has survived rupture but returned altered. Suspended between body and architecture, it speaks to the exhibition’s wider interest in what resurfaces after catastrophe and how objects can preserve evidence of the worlds that came before.

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𝓕𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓓
Presented by OHSH Projects and Messums West
5 September - 3 October 2026

Messums West, Place Farm, Court Street
Tisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LW

Open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
and Sundays 10am - 2pm

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