Imagine, if you can, Lewis Carroll’s Alice transported into the 21st Century. This exhibition does. It celebrates Alice and her Wonderland, 150 years on and in doing so introduces contemporary ideas, images and fantasies, each taking the imagination and the senses on journeys of exploration and discovery.

Illustrated here is Miranda Sky’s Rosebud, included in which are the faces of two young visitors to the exhibition, enjoying their own Through the Looking Glass experience. Sky uses recycled everyday objects in her work. Rosebud, her clock mirror, is built from fragments of mirror glass that create distinct distortions and perspectives.

Sue Kreitzman’s sculpture Alice & Clocks, provides a wide-eyed little girl seeming unconcerned by time-keeping and the fact she is bedecked from head to toe with a wide variety of competing clocks and watches.

Chris Czainski’s Metamorphosis 1 & 2 have attracted a great deal of attention. Inspired by the Duchess in Alice and her baby who morphs into a piglet, he has used discarded dolls’ bodies which he has crowned with sheeps’ skulls to create a haunting and disturbing pair: she standing accusatory, he helplessly rolling on his back on the ground.

In addition to the work of professional artists there is also the work of child-ren and young people. These include pupils from Rose Hill Primary School who have created a Mad Hatter’s Ethnic Feast, in which they have used the idea of a party to inspire making colourful plates of celebratory food, all accomp-anied by a range of sweetie smells.

Members of the Oxfordshire Deaf Children’s Society have mapped out their own collage and mixed media versions of a Rabbit’s hole. And each young artist has thoughtfully provided all mod cons for the comfort and even luxury of each furry incumbent. Pupils at Oxford High Junior School have used colourful masks to illustrate their versions of Alice’s Talking Garden.

Melissa Westbrook, whose brainchild the exhibition is, has written a modern day Alice, which is also included in the show. By bringing together a wide range of artists and potential artists Westbrook has created a diverse collection of work that both speaks to the imagination and provides inspiration as it did to the two young artists whose portraits are captured within Rosebud.