Hi!

I'm Molly (she/they). A queer Disabled artist, maker, Brookes Fine Art BA alumni, life model, and life drawing teacher. I work in many mediums across print, sculpture, drawing and ceramics.

I create pieces using natural and found materials, including foraged berry dyes, textiles, mushroom ink, leaf prints, spore prints, scraps, and clay. I am fascinated by the seen and unseen, boring and beautiful, the domestic, the perfectly imperfect.

It may be through the tactile treasure of the humble cabbage leaf, or the fortunate finding of forageable mushrooms. Or maybe the not-so-fortunate surprise of finding a rat named Pat that lives behind your kitchen sink.

I am also passionate about building communities and have a range of curating, public art, and community experience.

A person with curly red hair and red earrings holding a colorful, decorated puppet or doll, which has bright orange, blue, green, and white fur, beaded embellishments, and metallic accents, in front of a brick wall.
A woman with glasses, wearing a colorful vintage outfit, sits on a log in a forest surrounded by trees and dried leaves, with a wicker basket in front of her.

I often forage in local woods to find materials such as mushrooms and leaves.​

I work at my home studio, situated in the back room of my home. It looks onto my edible garden.

When I'm not making art, I work as a Community Development Coordinator and Art and Exhibitions Coordinator for Makespace. I get to work with and support a range of fabulous artists and social enterprises, and create beautiful spaces.

I also work at not-for-profit queer community events company T(ART) Productions CIC as a life drawing teacher, and run events and craft sessions.

Artist CV

Curation

2025 SCRAPS, The Community Works, Oxford

2025 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford

2025 MakeSpace Open, The Community Works, Oxford

2025 Poems in Art, The Community Works, Oxford

2024 Crossing the Bridge (Black History Month Open Call), The Community Works, Oxford

2024 Iraqi Women Art and War, The Community Works, Oxford

2024 Befriending my Brain, The Old Stables, Wantage

2024 Letters to Palestinian Children, The Community Works, Oxford

2024 Through our Eyes, The Community Works, Oxford

2024 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford

2023 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford

2020 Architecture exhibition, Oxford Brookes, Online​

2019 Pop Up Life Drawing Exhibition, Glass Tank Galley, Oxford
 


Exhibitions

2025 OAS Young Artists (Award winner), OAS, Oxford

2025 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks,  Oxford

2025 Queue, Ovada, Oxford

2025 30:30, Artquest, Online

2024 Open, Old Fire Station, Oxford

2024 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford

2023 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford​

2023 The St Barbes Open Exhibition, St Barbes Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington

2023 Open Studio​, Hampshire Open Studios, Lymington

2022 Group Exhibition, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford

2022 The St Barbes Open Exhibition, St Barbes Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington

2019 Pop Up Life Drawing Exhibition, Glass Tank Galley, Oxford

2019 PEEL, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

2019 The St Barbes Open Exhibition, St Barbes Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington​

2017 Customers, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

2016 Foundation Diploma Show, Arts University Bournemouth, Bournemouth

2014 Who are you? Winner, Arts University Bournemouth



Workshops, teaching and community art

2025 Painted Planter (Community art piece), Style Acre, Didcot

2025 Stronger Together (Community art piece), Oxford DIY Pride, Oxford

2025 TomArtoes, T(ART) Productions, Oxford

2023 - 2025 Life Drawing Teacher, T(ART) Productions, Oxford

2025 Gelli Printing, Home Studio, Oxford

2024 Natural Prints, Old Fire Station, Oxford

2023 Leaf Your Mark: Botanical Printing, St Barbes Museum, Lymington

2023 Leaf Your Mark: Botanical Printing, Home Studio, Oxford


Education

2016 - 2019 BA Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University

2015 - 2016 Art Foundation, University of Bournemouth 

Drop a Line

mollypalmrock@gmail.com