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Off the Shelf Festival returns to Sheffield with star-studded 35th edition

Sir Bradley Wiggins, Marina Hyde, Lee Child and Naz Shah MP are among the names heading to Sheffield this autumn, as Off the Shelf Festival of Words returns for a 35th edition featuring more than 50 events.

August 14, 2026Sheffield

Art Featured West Yorkshire

Leeds Arts University graduate shortlisted for World Illustration Awards

Leeds Arts University animation graduate Olive Jackson has been shortlisted in the Animation category at this year's World Illustration Awards, for a forest-inspired piece exploring texture and colour in a lineless style.

August 14, 2026Leeds

Art West Yorkshire

Leeds charity partners with Bow Arts to open up affordable studio finder tool

East Street Arts has teamed up with Bow Arts to extend free access to Artist Studio Finder, connecting artists across Yorkshire and the North with affordable studio space for the first time.

August 13, 2026Leeds

William Dobson’s Self-Portrait c.1635-40

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17th-century self-portrait comes to Hull as part of national youth tour

A rare William Dobson self-portrait, jointly acquired by Tate and the National Portrait Gallery, is coming to Hull's Ferens Art Gallery as part of a tour connecting the 17th-century work to young people.

August 13, 2026Hull

Art West Yorkshire

Cartwright Hall unveils major South Asian art exhibition, Assassins and Lovers

Assassins and Lovers, curated by artist and educator Salima Hashmi, brings major South Asian and British South Asian artists to Bradford's Cartwright Hall, inspired by a celebrated Urdu poem later immortalised in song.

August 10, 2026Bradford

Art Featured West Yorkshire

Two silversmiths reveal work inspired by Temple Newsam’s birds and gardens

Two newly commissioned silver artworks, inspired by the history and grounds of Temple Newsam, will go on public display for the first time when Reflections in Silver opens at the house…

August 3, 2026Leeds

Art Featured West Yorkshire

Final month to see Jim Moir’s Neo Fauna at Cartwright Hall

Jim Moir, better known to most as Vic Reeves, closes his exhibition of watercolours, pencils and charcoals on 31 August. There's nowhere else lined up to see it.

August 1, 2026Bradford

Art Featured West Yorkshire

Harewood acquires Lela Harris’s portrait of Miss Lambe

Exactly a year after contemporary artist Lela Harris unveiled her portrait of Miss Lambe, Jane Austen's only character of African descent, Harewood House Trust has acquired the work into its permanent…

July 31, 2026

Art North Yorkshire

Dozen new guardians take up their posts across York’s streets

12 new sculptures have taken up residence across York as part of a new trail called The Watchers of York, launched on 29 June by Make It York in collaboration with…

July 29, 2026York

Art West Yorkshire

Shipley’s new stone sheep have names now, chosen by the town’s school children

The flock of seven stone sheep installed in Shipley's Well Croft earlier this year finally has names – and every one was chosen by a local school child. The name Shipley…

July 23, 2026Shipley