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.
Exhibitions on these days
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Opens Thu 5 Nov
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Opens Fri 6 Nov
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Opens Fri 13 Nov
Exhibition
Seiko Kinoshita: Distant: Shared Memories of Home
The Art House, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Opens Sat 14 Nov
Exhibition
Angela Harding: A Chronicle of Birds and Beasts
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Opens Sat 14 Nov
Exhibition
Alan Carr-Linford: A Retrospective
Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
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Opens Fri 20 Nov
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Opens Sat 21 Nov
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Opens Sat 21 Nov
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Opens Sat 21 Nov
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Opens Sat 21 Nov
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Opens Sat 21 Nov
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Opens Sat 28 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
Exhibition
Annie Montgomerie: Missies and Nippers
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
Exhibition
Sculpture in the Landscape 2026
The Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park, Ripon, North Yorkshire
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sun 8 Nov
Exhibition
Echoes of the House: Stories in Light and Motion
Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
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Closes Wed 11 Nov
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
Exhibition
York Created: Paint-Clay-Print-Collage From The Heart Of The City
Pyramid Gallery, York, North Yorkshire
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sun 15 Nov
Exhibition
Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige
The Whitworth, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Closes Sun 15 Nov
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Closes Sun 15 Nov
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Closes Sun 22 Nov
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Closes Sun 22 Nov
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Closes Sun 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 13 Dec
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Until 13 Dec
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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
Exhibition
The Ruskin Collection: Storm-Cloud, The Look of the Sky
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Until 24 Dec
Exhibition
Everything Is Suspended in Movement, Where our Dream goes on Forever
Towneley Hall, Burnley, Lancashire
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Until 24 Dec
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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
Exhibition
Memory Keepers by Yan Wang Preston
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, 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 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
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Until 21 Oct 2029
Monday 2 November
Born on this day: Emperor Huizong of Song (1082), Jean Siméon Chardin (1699) and Richard Serra (1938)
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Mon 2 Nov 10:30 15:00
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Mon 2 Nov 18:00 20:30
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Mon 2 Nov 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Creative Art Courses, AWOL Studios, Hope Mill, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Tuesday 3 November
Born on this day: Annibale Carracci (1560), Benvenuto Cellini (1500), Elizabeth Thompson (1846) and Walker Evans (1903)
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Tue 3 Nov 18:00 21:00
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Tue 3 Nov 19:00 21:00
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Tue 3 Nov 19:30 21:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Plus Tuesdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Tue 3 Nov 19:30 21:30
Wednesday 4 November
Born on this day: Guido Reni (1575) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946)
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Wed 4 Nov 18:00 21:00
Thursday 5 November
Happy birthday to Luke Jerram (52 today)
Born on this day: John Berger (1926)
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Thu 5 Nov 18:00 20:30
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Thu 5 Nov 18:00 20:00
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Thu 5 Nov 19:30 21:45
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Manchester Thursdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Friday 6 November
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Fri 6 Nov 10:30 12:30
Saturday 7 November
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Sat 7 Nov 10:30 16:00
Monday 9 November
Happy birthday to Michael Heizer (82 today)
Born on this day: Kaj Franck (1911), Peggy Angus (1904) and Robert Frank (1924)
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Mon 9 Nov 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Creative Art Courses, AWOL Studios, Hope Mill, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Mon 9 Nov 19:00 21:00
Tuesday 10 November
Born on this day: Emmy Bridgwater (1906), Jacob Epstein (1880) and William Hogarth (1697)
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Tue 10 Nov 10:30 13:00
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Tue 10 Nov 18:00 21:00
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Tue 10 Nov 19:00 21:00
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Tue 10 Nov 19:30 21:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Plus Tuesdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Tue 10 Nov 19:30 21:30
Thursday 12 November
Born on this day: Auguste Rodin (1840)
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Thu 12 Nov 19:30 21:45
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Manchester Thursdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Friday 13 November
Born on this day: Simon Carroll (1964)
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Fri 13 Nov 10:00 13:00
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Fri 13 Nov 10:30 12:30
Saturday 14 November
Happy birthday to Andrew Crummy (67 today) and David Nash (81 today)
Born on this day: Claude Monet (1840), Derwent Lees (1884), Elisabeth Frink (1930) and Sonia Delaunay (1885)
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Sat 14 Nov 10:30 16:00
Monday 16 November
Born on this day: William De Morgan (1839)
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Mon 16 Nov 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Creative Art Courses, AWOL Studios, Hope Mill, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Tuesday 17 November
Happy birthday to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (59 today)
Born on this day: August Sander (1876), Bronzino (1503), Isamu Noguchi (1904) and Pierre Mignard (1612)
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Tue 17 Nov 19:00 21:00
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Tue 17 Nov 19:30 21:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Plus Tuesdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Tue 17 Nov 19:30 21:30
Wednesday 18 November
Born on this day: Ana Mendieta (1948), Bruce Conner (1933), David Wilkie (1785), Frank Dobson (1886), Louis Daguerre (1787), Norman Cornish (1919), Stanhope Forbes (1857) and Wyndham Lewis (1882)
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Wed 18 Nov 18:00 20:00
Drawing Group
Salford Museum Life Drawing Late
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, Greater Manchester
Thursday 19 November
Born on this day: Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770)
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Thu 19 Nov 19:30 21:45
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Manchester Thursdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Friday 20 November
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Fri 20 Nov 10:30 12:30
Saturday 21 November
Born on this day: René Magritte (1898)
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Sat 21 Nov 10:30 16:00
Monday 23 November
Born on this day: El Lissitzky (1890) and José Clemente Orozco (1883)
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Mon 23 Nov 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Creative Art Courses, AWOL Studios, Hope Mill, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Tuesday 24 November
Born on this day: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864) and Lynn Chadwick (1914)
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Tue 24 Nov 19:00 21:00
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Tue 24 Nov 19:30 21:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Plus Tuesdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Tue 24 Nov 19:30 21:30
Thursday 26 November
Happy birthday to Cristina Mittermeier (60 today) and Kara Walker (57 today)
Born on this day: Félix González-Torres (1957)
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Thu 26 Nov 18:00 20:00
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Thu 26 Nov 18:00 20:00
Workshop
Ceramic Sculpting with Ben Saunders
Manchester Craft and Design Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Thu 26 Nov 19:30 21:45
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Manchester Thursdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Friday 27 November
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Fri 27 Nov 10:30 12:30
Saturday 28 November
Happy birthday to John Galliano (66 today), Julie Mehretu (56 today) and Sutapa Biswas (64 today)
Born on this day: Wen Zhengming (1470) and William Blake (1757)
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Sat 28 Nov 10:00 13:00
Monday 30 November
Happy birthday to Marina Abramović (80 today)
Born on this day: Clyfford Still (1904), Ulay (1943), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825) and Winston Churchill (1874)
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Mon 30 Nov 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Creative Art Courses, AWOL Studios, Hope Mill, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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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