Art in West Yorkshire
Arts Calendar lists 50 exhibitions, 14 workshops and classes and 2 drawing groups at 24 venues in West Yorkshire. Leeds has the most, with 29. Tuesday is the busiest night, with 6 of the regular listings.
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
Exhibition
Michaela Yearwood-Dan: The Practice of Liberation
The Whitworth, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
Exhibition
Through A Queer Lens: Stories of LGBTQ+ Jews
Manchester Jewish Museum, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Fri 23 Oct
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Closes Sat 24 Oct
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
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Closes Thu 29 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
Exhibition
CROWNED: Black Hair, Identity and Adornment
Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
Exhibition
Lives in Focus: Photography in Sheffield’s Collection
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
Exhibition
Revolution, Revelation, Reinforcement: Queer Legacies in Sheffield’s Art Collection
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Until 1 Nov
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Until 1 Nov
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Until 1 Nov
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Until 1 Nov
Exhibition
Annie Montgomerie: Missies and Nippers
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Until 1 Nov
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Until 1 Nov
Exhibition
Sculpture in the Landscape 2026
The Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park, Ripon, North Yorkshire
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Until 1 Nov
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Until 1 Nov
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Until 1 Nov
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Until 1 Nov
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Until 7 Nov
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Until 7 Nov
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Until 8 Nov
Exhibition
Echoes of the House: Stories in Light and Motion
Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
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Until 11 Nov
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Until 14 Nov
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Until 14 Nov
Exhibition
York Created: Paint-Clay-Print-Collage From The Heart Of The City
Pyramid Gallery, York, North Yorkshire
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Until 14 Nov
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Until 14 Nov
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Until 15 Nov
Exhibition
Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige
The Whitworth, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Until 15 Nov
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Until 22 Nov
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Until 22 Nov
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Until 29 Nov
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Until 4 Dec
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Until 6 Dec
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Until 11 Dec
Exhibition
Zoe Maxwell: Came and Gone Before
Leeds Arts University Vernon Street Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 13 Dec
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Until 18 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
Exhibition
FUAM 2026: The Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 22 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
Exhibition
The Ruskin Collection: Storm-Cloud, The Look of the Sky
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Until 31 Dec
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Until 31 Dec
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven
The Whitworth, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 5 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
‘Some Steel’: Sculpture and Steel in Britain, 1960-90
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Ebb & Flow: Bookworks by Yoko Terauchi from the Research Library
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition
David Hockney: 20 Flowers for 2025 And Some Bigger Pictures
Salts Mill, Shipley, West Yorkshire
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Good Morning: A Day in Art by Chantal Joffe & Ishbel Myerscough
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Until 23 Jan 2027
Exhibition
David Steans: Paperhouse
Leeds Arts University Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Supermedium: Kelan Andrews and Petra Szemán
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Until 7 Feb 2027
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Until 7 Feb 2027
Exhibition
The Theatrics of Nature: Jessica Brodigan
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, Greater Manchester
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Until 20 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Witches & Healers: something that was ours
The Portico Library, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 6 Mar 2027
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Until 14 Mar 2027
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Until 21 Mar 2027
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Until 28 Mar 2027
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Until 4 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 14 Apr 2027
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Until 18 Apr 2027
Exhibition
Hold to This Earth: Works by Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists from Tia Collection
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Until 1 Jun 2027
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Until 6 Jun 2027
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Until 29 Aug 2027
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Until 29 Aug 2027
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Until 29 Aug 2027
Exhibition
Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 5 Sep 2027
Exhibition
What’s in Store? The Harrogate Fine Art Collection Revealed
Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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Until 31 Dec 2027
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Until 13 Feb 2028
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Until 7 May 2028
Exhibitions opening soon
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
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Opens Wed 21 Oct
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Opens Sat 24 Oct
Exhibition
Memory Keepers by Yan Wang Preston
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, Greater Manchester
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Opens Sat 24 Oct
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Opens Sat 31 Oct
Exhibition
Everything Is Suspended in Movement, Where our Dream goes on Forever
Towneley Hall, Burnley, Lancashire
Monday 19 October
Happy birthday to Pierre Alechinsky (99 today)
Born on this day: Umberto Boccioni (1882)
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Mon 19 Oct 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Creative Art Courses, AWOL Studios, Hope Mill, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Tuesday 20 October
Born on this day: Aelbert Cuyp (1620), Andrea della Robbia (1435) and Enid Marx (1902)
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Tue 20 Oct 19:00 21:00
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Tue 20 Oct 19:30 21:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Plus Tuesdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Tue 20 Oct 19:30 21:30
Thursday 22 October
Born on this day: Robert Capa (1913) and Robert Rauschenberg (1925)
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Thu 22 Oct 19:30 21:45
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Manchester Thursdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Friday 23 October
Happy birthday to Maggi Hambling (81 today)
Born on this day: Lygia Clark (1920) and M H Baillie Scott (1865)
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Fri 23 Oct 10:30 12:30
Monday 26 October
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Mon 26 Oct 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Creative Art Courses, AWOL Studios, Hope Mill, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Tuesday 27 October
Born on this day: Lee Krasner (1908) and Roy Lichtenstein (1923)
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Tue 27 Oct 19:00 21:00
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Tue 27 Oct 19:30 21:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Plus Tuesdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Tue 27 Oct 19:30 21:30
Thursday 29 October
Born on this day: Niki de Saint Phalle (1930) and R. B. Kitaj (1932)
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Thu 29 Oct 19:30 21:45
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Manchester Thursdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Friday 30 October
Born on this day: Alfred Sisley (1839) and Angelica Kauffman (1741)
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Fri 30 Oct 10:30 12:30
Everything listed in West Yorkshire
Exhibitions 50
- Assassins and Lovers
- Ephemeral
- Pop Art at Cartwright Hall
- The David Hockney Gallery
- We Feed The UK
- Calderdale Open Art Exhibition 2026
- Stunning Skies
- Dean Clough Artists Biennial Exhibition
- Halifax Photographic Society
- Olena Baranova: Feelings of the Second Sort
- Roy Holt: Wall Features
- Tapestry of the North
- Forage & Feast
- ABREAST
- Anji Timlin: Conduit – Wharfespeed
- Fran’s Life Group
- ‘Some Steel’: Sculpture and Steel in Britain, 1960-90
- David Steans: Paperhouse
- Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax
- Ebb & Flow: Bookworks by Yoko Terauchi from the Research Library
- FUAM 2026: The Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize
- Leeds 400: Places
- Lines of Enquiry: Drawings from the collection
- Mike Nelson: M62 (East, West)
- Reflections in Silver
- Sagarika Sundaram: Reservoir
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp: A Legacy in Print
- Steve McQueen: Resistance
- Untangled
- Zoe Maxwell: Came and Gone Before
- David Hockney: 20 Flowers for 2025 And Some Bigger Pictures
- Ian Beesley: Life Goes On
- Ally Rosenberg: Personal Growth
- Andy Welland: IMAGINED TERRITORIES
- Angela Harding: A Chronicle of Birds and Beasts
- Annie Montgomerie: Missies and Nippers
- Fotohane x The Art House
- Hold to This Earth: Works by Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists from Tia Collection
- Hospital Rooms: What Art Can Change
- Ida Ekblad: WORLD’S LARGEST METAPHOR
- Jakob Rowlinson: ROTATOR
- Lewis Hammond: Crystal in the Shade
- MADE
- Marc Chagall: The Circus
- Mrinalini Mukherjee: Unbound Forms
- Nicola Turner: Time’s Scythe
- Olivia Bax: Double Take
- Pyramid: Postcards from the World
- Seiko Kinoshita: Distant: Shared Memories of Home
- YSP MADE x Design-Nation Showcase
Workshops and classes 14
- Kintsugi Ceramics Workshop
- Absolute Beginners Pottery Throwing
- Collograph Taster
- Experimental Screen Printing
- Gelli Printing Taster
- Letterpress: Woodtype Posters
- Linocut Christmas Cards
- Mono-Screen Printing
- Monoprinting Taster
- Photogravure Etching
- Print Club
- Screen Printing Festive Cards
- Screen Printing with Natural Colour for Paper
- Textile Screen Printing
Drawing groups 2
Towns in West Yorkshire
- Leeds (29)
- Wakefield (18)
- Bradford (6)
- Halifax (5)
- Ilkley (3)
- Brighouse (2)
- Shipley (2)
- Hebden Bridge (1)
Something in West Yorkshire we are missing?
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