Ann Hamilton, one of America’s most distinguished visual artists, is creating a powerful new installation for Bradford 2025 inspired by the district’s extraordinary textile heritage. We Will Sing is the first major work created by Hamilton in the UK for more than 30 years, and the first time all three spaces on the vast top …
This is the first time that Mr Hockney’s series of 20 iPad flower paintings and accompanying large-scale landscape and abstract works – “new looking fresh pictures of a very beautiful world”, as the artist says – have been exhibited in the UK outside of London. The work by this Bradford-born, world-renowned artist will delight visitors …
This 8-foot mural, created in the 1960s by noted German artist Grete Marks (1899-1990) depicts Bradford’s Forster Square as it appeared over a century ago. Marks trained at the Bauhaus. She was commissioned to design the mural for the entrance of Central House offices in Forster Square, Bradford. The mural artwork is based on a …
Acclaimed Bradfordian photographer Ian Beesley has spent the last 5 decades documenting life in the North of England. He had planned to retire by 2025. Instead, the appetite for his work is stronger than ever. This exhibition features a previously unseen selection of Beesley’s work selected from his archive of over 200,000 images. In time …
Three works by textile doyenne Pauline Caulfield – Cascade, Garden and Odeon – are installed in The Home’s 20,000 square foot former Victorian factory space – once full of looms, now full of an unparalleled range of European furniture and international home accessories. Caulfield’s design signatures – bright colours, bold shapes, total mood uplift – …
Explore two floors of British Contemporary Art curated by artist and educator Nina Hunter. See also Workshops & Activites for talks and taster sessions being offered by Saltaire Art School over the Arts Trail weekend.
Come and meet Saltaire Art Group artists and browse over one hundred new and original artworks, many of which are for sale, along with quality art cards and crafts. The twenty members of this popular local art group have been meeting and exhibiting their pictures for over twenty years. Members work with a variety of …
This amateur photography group have been meeting for 20 years. This exhibition will reflect their broad-ranging work over these years, including macro shots of fauna and flora along with unusual shots and many competition winners. (Image by Alan Armitage)
Yorkshire Speak Their Name was founded by Anna Scott and Karen Sykes who are both bereaved by suicide. The Yorkshire quilt was launched on a tour of Yorkshire in October 2022 and has been ‘on the road’ since then. The Quilt is a beautiful piece of art and a memorial for people who have died …
Students from Bradford School of Art explore the role of sustainability and low impact textile practices. Each student was tasked to create an original textile piece based on a second-hand men’s shirt. Taking their lead from the exhibition’s title, they have explored global themes of waste, recycling and ethics within textiles and fashion. They were …