Abigail Ballinger became the new administrator for West Ox Arts in July 2002. She took over from Sally Proctor who had been in post for six years.

A very different type of exhibition in the Gallery in Bampton in January 2002 saw 100 boxes, each containing 100 pictures and a distinctive word or phrase from the year for people to brows through.

Three West Oxfordshire venues shared an autumn display of exotic art. In Bampton Gallery traditional cael girths and regalia from Rajasthan and Gujarat were on display from late September well into October.

Artists from The Granary Studio in Stanford-in-The-Vale were invited to exhibit in Bampton Gallery. There were paintings in water colours, acrylics, pastels and charcoal, sculptures in Papier-mâché , ceramics and mosaics.

Each year West Ox Arts mount a special Christmas Craft Fair in December. In 2000 the theme was The Twelve Days of Christmas. Work included ceramics textiles wood papier mache jewellery basket, ware mosaics, calligraphy cards picture/photo frames and more

Artist Nigel Plumb held an exhibition in 2000 in the Art Gallery called Drawn to Dripped from July 9th.The majority of his works in the exhibition were created by dripping household gloss paint on to paper canvas with a stick.

West Ox Arts was one of 6 community organisations in West Oxfordshire to benefit from the Millennium Lottery handout. They got £4,400 and were to use it on the professionally created mosaic which can be seen outside the Town Hall on the east side

June 1999West Ox Arts hosts an exhibition of the work of Richard Dack and Ann Norman.The article describes their very differing styles

May 1999Arts Week. The Gallery in the Town Hall was used by the Oxford Arts Society because the room they had been using in the Westgate Library was no longer available to them.The picture shows some garden ceramics made by Maureen Wilsker

Elsie Portlock and others in fancy dress.