It's Another World: Serena Partridge, Rozie Keogh & Julie Arkell, 6th December 2003 - 28th February 2004. This exhibition focused on the work of three women artists who all make work by hand, employing domestic craft techniques in a personal but highly sophisticated way. They all make collections of objects which make figurative references, but are imaginary or exaggerated.

Serena Partridge - Follies of Fashion

Rozie Keogh - Trans-Form

Work by Dawn Ford, 22nd November 2003 - 31st January 2004 - Dawn describes herself as an "illustrator and maker of mixed media", although she doesn't like having to categorise what she does. Her work is best described as embroidered illustration of family life and memories. Her materials include antique cotton, lace and delicate papers, wire buttons and beads.

Photographs by Lesley James, 13th September - 25th October - The themes and content of Lesley James's photographs are strongly influenced by the Geography of Wales and Cornwall. She sees her work reflecting painterly rather than phtographic views of the forms, textures and colours in a landscape.

Another Country: John Timberlake, 13th September - 25th October - John Timberlake constructs dioramas in the guise of an amateur hobbyist. He then depicts, in paint, scenes of landscapes which feature painted cloudy skies taken from the archival images of British nuclear tests carried out by Britain on foreign territory.

Remote from the original sources, culminating in a seductive series of montaged photographs, this body of work developed over the past three years marks an elaborate and complex strata of processes.

This exhibition was produced as a touring exhibition by Worcester City Art Gallery, Focal Point Gallery and The University of Hertfordshire Galleries.

Rush on Them - Parodies in Paper, 10th July - 5th September 2003. The exhibition included life size, smaller cased and interactive sculptures. Highlighting Peter's departure from gentle humour into the more acerbic arena of parody and satire, many public figures who have been given the Rush treatment will be recognisable instantly. But something more sinister has crept into the plot. Jolly exteriors disguise intimidation, menace and threat. All is not what it seems.

Eva Rudlinger, 10th May - 21st June 2003. Eva Rudlinger's work uses perspex, lenses, glass and transparency film to explore "the transformation of elemental conditions and spaces into the metaphysical realm" - in particular focusing "on the epic character of water and the dramas of light. Visit Eva's web site at http://www.evalab.co.uk.

ELLIPSIS - Alan Smith: New Painting, 8th March - 3rd May 2003. After acclaimed solo exhibitions in Chicago and a residency in Berlin, a new exhibition of paintings by Alan Smith runs from March 8th. Unusually, Smith will also create a new site specific work for Worcester City Art Gallery, which will involve painting directly onto the walls. Alan Smith tends to work in series, creating small enigmatic paintings which glow with intense colour. The surfaces of his paintings are strictly prepared with patiently sanded layers of gesso. He applies broad brushstrokes and his strong colours are screened and diffused through numerous glazes.

Nathan Garner - 18th January - 8th March 2003. Colour, form and shape are important in Nathan Garner's flower portraits which he describes as also having concern with the "contemporary obsession with genetic engineering and the quest to improve nature".

Bitparts: Paul Sermon, Gair Dunlop & Dan Norton, 1st February - 1st March 2003. Commissioned in association with FACT, The Foundation for Creative Technology, and West Midlands Arts, Bitparts is a programme of new media exhibitions taking place across the West Midlands during the Spring of 2003.

The interactive installation Peace Talks, by Paul Sermon, uses video conferencing technology and head mounted video display to create a link between two identical but separated spaces via an Internet link. Visitors to the two spaces will see themselves existing together through a flowing media cascade of news and real images and sounds.

Gair Dunlop's new work, Console, explores the relationship between human beings and machines from the industrial revolution to the present day. Console is an interactive video projection using images and ideas from the Science Museum in London

 New Stories: David Cox, 14th December - 25th January 2003. David Cox came to prominence in 1990 in the exhibition crafts in Performance. Born in 1947, he trained as a carpenter and joiner, then in 1973 he turned to making sculpture, furniture and toys. The profound influence of music on Cox's life and work found expression in his being appointed WOMAD visual artist in 2001.

David Cox constructs strikingly unusual figures, masks, relief's and objects from wood, paper, card and other materials. Many are distillations based on archetypes associated with popular culture and music, in particular genres such as hip hop and jazz, reggae and blues. Behind the masks and the figures may be urban settings, impenetrable thickets of high-rise buildings, gridlocked traffic, seemingly built up from reclaimed flotsam and jetsam of modern civilisation.

Artwork by Ron Boyd, 12th October - 11th January 2003. Ron Boyd lives and works in the Forest of Dean. Spending part of each day in the Forest provides Ron with the ideas from which he develops his paintings, with time, the seasons, space, light and colour being integral elements of his work. Ron's works were on display in the Balcony cafe area.

Moonshine Tales & Other Stories: Vered Lahav, 20th July - 14th September 2002. Best known for her beautiful photographs and unusual installations, Vered Lahav is a young artist who graduated from the Royal College in 1998. An inventive storyteller, she sources images and ideas from newspapers, car boot sales and her own past.

Describing Vered's work, Bridget Crump Gallery and Exhibitions Officer said: "Her work has a whimsical quality, often exploring themes concerned with childhood, families, group and personal identity, but her images also have a cool, scientific style."

In this exhibition she is showing six pieces of work which juxtapose photography and three-dimensional objects. Vered explains that she is interested in telling stories, which allude to the personal histories of individuals and families as well as universal themes such as childhood.

She appropriates found images and objects by re-using and re-presenting them. This often involves painstaking preparation and research, like visiting endless car boot sales to find images of families, or searching the desert for nests. Although her work often relates to specific personal experiences, she is also keen for it to be open-ended, encouraging the viewer to create their own meanings and interpretation.

Access All Areas: Dale Devreux, 18th May - 13th July 2002. Dale Devereux Barker is best known for his colourful and quirky prints. He came to work behind the scenes at Worcester City Art Gallery and Royal Worcester, in November 2001 and has produced a stunning collection of ceramics, prints and drawings. Access All Areas, which is in two parts, will be shown concurrently at Worcester City Art Gallery and The Museum of Worcester Porcelain opening to the public at both venues on Saturday the 18th May.

Dale explains how the project came about;

“I wanted to use the museum itself and was keen to show a body of work that had some kind of relevance to the city. The idea of working at Royal Worcester came from my desire to make a completely new body of artworks. That I had never visited Worcester before was a bonus; new experiences are essential in making art.”

During a frenetic and enjoyable period in October and November last year Dale explored the store rooms and archives at both museums and worked alongside the production line at Royal Worcester to produce this collection of one-off ceramic plates, prints and drawings. Commenting on the experience of working in Worcester Dale said;

“I spent a very special and memorable two weeks in the factory, trying many new and exciting techniques whilst trying to assimilate the atmosphere and make objects worthy of exhibiting - I am delighted with the results of my time at Royal Worcester.”

Access All Areas is the result of dipping into a city. An outsider - a tourist, drawing our attention to fragments of time and place that living and working in the city we take for granted: the everyday places and faces; the history and the throw-away moments. Dale’s work has a sense of invention and intervention; he talks about drawing attention to details, pointing things out that have a double-meaning or giving them a double-life. For this exhibition he has used what he has been offered: a limited amount of time; a restricted range of materials and a good spoonful of technical advice. With this he has created a body of work which reflects his experience of Worcester, a playful intriguing exhibition.

Collaborations in Pattern & Print - Saturday 20th May - Wednesday July 26th 2000. This exhibition highlighted the work of an exciting multi-cultural project and will be going on tour in 2002.