The Art House Wakefield

The Art House Wakefield 🏠 The house that art built. Yorkshire-based visual arts hub
& contemporary art gallery.

We’re excited to be bringing to The Art House this month, coinciding with our Refugee Celebration day event!One Song is...
01/06/2026

We’re excited to be bringing to The Art House this month, coinciding with our Refugee Celebration day event!

One Song is an audio-visual installation and community project by artist  exploring how music carries memory, identity and a sense of home across borders.

The project is an evolving archive of songs and stories developed with women who have personal experience of migration or seeking sanctuary. Built through participation and shared experience, the iteration on display at The Art House has been developed with members of the Wakefield community.

The project is inspired by the Karababa’s own family history of migration from Eastern Turkey to London, and an interest in how songs are carried across borders while remaining rooted in the places they were first sung.

Presented together, One Song creates a shared space of listening. Each voice remains distinct, while common themes of movement, belonging, loss and connection begin to emerge.

🔗 Read more on our website

🗓️ 20 June-31 August. Join us for an exclusive first look and to celebrate the exhibition opening on Friday 19 June from 18:00-20:00, RSVP on our website.

One Song was originally commissioned by Counterpoints Arts. This iteration has been supported by Arts Council England and Counterpoints Arts. 

Image Courtesy of Kadir Karababa.

[Image Description: A warm orange gallery space with digital screens displaying women stood singing against a black backdrop.]

Next week we’ll be welcoming part of the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt to The Art House, in its first time on display outside o...
30/05/2026

Next week we’ll be welcoming part of the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt to The Art House, in its first time on display outside of London!

The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt consists of 42 quilts and 23 individual panels, representing over 384 individuals affected by HIV and AIDS and is part of the world’s largest community art project.

As part of the wider city‑wide presentation of the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt, The Art House is proud to be displaying a small selection of quilt panels in our Tiled Gallery from 3-7 June.

We’ll also be hosting a free, drop-in printmaking and quilting workshop on Sunday 7 June, from 10:30-15:00. Find out more through the link in our bio!

Image: A.M Hanson

[Image Description: Visitors standing in a open gallery space, around a large, colourful fabric panels forming the AIDS Memorial Quilt which is laid out across the floor. Each piece bears names, messages, and artwork that commemorate lives lost.]

📣 get down to The Art House on Saturday 11 July! 📣PRINTED, our summer market dedicated to showcasing the diverse, creati...
29/05/2026

📣 get down to The Art House on Saturday 11 July! 📣

PRINTED, our summer market dedicated to showcasing the diverse, creative world of paper-based practices will be taking place from 10:00-16:00!

The day will be dedicated to print, zines, illustration, books, photography, and more. Expect a carefully curated selection of contemporary stalls, hands-on workshops, live demos, and a GIANT walk-in camera obscura!

🗓️ Saturday 11 July, 10:00-16:00 | Free Entry | Everyone Welcome

[Image Description: A cream graphic with colourful halftone images of print and photography related tools and equipment such as a print roller, canister of film, a camera, squeegee and spatula. At center is a notepad with a handwritten message reading ‘SAVE THE DATE’.]

28/05/2026

Did you know you don’t need a membership to use our Darkroom? 📸

We offer flexible pay-as-you-go bookings, with both 3-hour and 6-hour sessions available, including chemistry in the price.

Technical support is available from our workshop technician on Thursdays between 12:00–20:00 and Fridays from 9:00–17:00, plus one Saturday session each month.

Interested in membership? Send us a message and we’ll send you a link to find out more.

If you’d like to explore the space first, come along to our next Makers Social on 4 June – a relaxed opportunity to meet current members, chat with technicians, and see the space in action!

🔗 Not quite ready to work independently? Check out our workshops and courses to build confidence with the core darkroom skills through the link in our bio.

[Video Description: The first clip shows a film camera being loaded with film, after this black and white film photography images flash by on the screen, showing scenes from around The Art House, the team and our studio holders.]

Harriet Bowman: Slow Puncture explores the secondary use of materials across glass, metal, rubber and ceramics. Bowmans ...
27/05/2026

Harriet Bowman: Slow Puncture explores the secondary use of materials across glass, metal, rubber and ceramics. Bowmans close understanding to materials’ cycles draws focus on the processes and events taking place out of view.

Bowman investigates the lifecycle of car tyres, tracing how rubber is repurposed into playground surfaces designed to absorb the impact of children’s falls, or shipped overseas, where discarded tyres collect stagnant water and become breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

This connection between the industrial and the biological is echoed in her use of glass, particularly smashed car windows. The material shifts between fluidity when molten hot and shattering upon impact.

These references to the vulnerability of the body in relation to the vehicle recur throughout the exhibition. Blown-glass car headrests collapse under the heat of the kiln, while welded metal structures suggest support and protection, drawing viewers into the slumped depressions of tyre forms.

🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday, 9:30-16:00 with late night opening until 20:00 on Thursdays, until 9 July.

🔗 Read more and plan your visit on our website

[Image Description: Image one: A large glass panel with horse hair fused within it, placed carefully on a felt mat and leaning against the white gallery wall. A bundle of horse hair dangles fron the wall by its side. Image two: A side view of a sculpture, a glass panel cuts diagonally through the image while strands of horse hair wave over the boundary.]

Introducing the Homeware Series – a new collection of ceramic workshops designed to help you refresh your interior desig...
26/05/2026

Introducing the Homeware Series – a new collection of ceramic workshops designed to help you refresh your interior design with some unique handmade pieces!

Led by local ceramicist Hannah Way in our Ceramics Studio, each session will guide you through the process of creating beautiful, practical objects for the home. From sculptural candlesticks and custom clocks and handmade bookends, you’ll learn hand-building techniques while developing pieces that reflect your personal style.

📚 Bookends | 06 June 2026, 10:00-14:00

🕰️ Clock Face | 27 June 2026, 10:00-13:00

🕯️ Candlesticks | 15 August 2026, 10:00-13:00

Head to the link in our bio to book your place 🔗

[Carousel Description: Image 1 - A clay clock face with bubble-style numbers. Image 2 - A angular bookend being held in front of a bookcase. Image 3 - Shelving filled with a variety of ceramic candlestick holders.]

This is your last chance to see Emily Andersen: Somewhere Else Entirely at The Art House, the exhibition closes this wee...
26/05/2026

This is your last chance to see Emily Andersen: Somewhere Else Entirely at The Art House, the exhibition closes this weekend!

If you haven’t had chance to take in this contemplative short film yet, be sure to visit us before 30 May.

🔗 Read more about the exhibition on our website.

📅 Open until 30 May. Visit us 9:30-16:00 Monday-Saturday

[Image Description: A photograph taken in a dimly lit gallery, a spotlight lights up a black and white framed image of poet Ruth Fainlight. A woman sat is turned with her side to the camera, looking up at the image.]

🌟 The Doodle Lounge has arrived! ✏️Looking for something fun and free this May half term? Visit our Doodle Lounge – a pl...
25/05/2026

🌟 The Doodle Lounge has arrived! ✏️

Looking for something fun and free this May half term? Visit our Doodle Lounge – a playful pop-up space made for creative minds.

While little artists dive into the doodling, grown-ups can take a well-deserved break with a selection of drinks, light lunches and sweet treats from our Coffee Shop.

Open all week!

🔗 Find out more through the link in our bio

[Image Description: A graphic illustration with colourful children’s doodles, text within the graphic reads ‘The Doodle Lounge 25-30 May 2026’.]

The Art House, Wakefield, announces its Summer 2026 programme, a bold season shaped by solidarity, shared stories and co...
22/05/2026

The Art House, Wakefield, announces its Summer 2026 programme, a bold season shaped by solidarity, shared stories and collective experience. Across exhibitions, public artworks, photography, performance and community-led projects, the programme brings together artists whose work explores identity, migration, memory, queerness, and belonging.

Running throughout the summer, the programme creates spaces for listening, gathering and
connection, from participatory analogue photography projects developed with children living near the Türkiye–Syria–Iraq border regions, to installations exploring music, migration and home through shared songs and personal memory.

UK AIDS Memorial Quilt Exhibition | 3-7 June

Refugee Week Celebration Day | 20 June

Andy Welland: Imagined Territories | 20 June onwards

Kadir Karababa: One Song | 20 June-31 August

International collaboration with Fotohane Darkroom | 20 June-1 August

PRINTED | 11 July 2026

Jakob Rowlinson: REVIVER | 18 July-19 September

Sunshine Child | 12 September-24 October

Hospital Rooms at The Art House | 30 September–31 October

Damon Jackson-Waldock, Co-Executive Director at The Art House, says:
“This summer’s programme is rooted in solidarity and the power that creative spaces should have to bring people together. Across this season, our projects explore what it means to belong, to remember, to gather and to care for one another. From international collaborations and community-led projects to public artworks and immersive installations, this programme reflects our commitment to supporting artists whose work creates space for stories, voices and experiences that are too often unheard. There has never been a more important time to celebrate this!”

For full details on The Art House Wakefield’s 2026 artistic and events programme, visit our website through the link in out bio.

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