Amy Townend derives inpiration from her travels and surroundings - most recently to New Zealand and Australia - to create these abstract works in acrylic, charcoal, pastel and ink. All works are available to purchase.

Wool sculptures and artwork influenced by the local Yorkshire fauna, landscape and folklore.

Indie (Holmfirth, England) is a digital artist and published author creating unique abstract art and video, whose works are characterised by economy of technique, a preoccupation with shapes, spaces and colour, influenced by contemporary art, impressionism, cubism, expressionism, futurism and surrealism. Art by Indie is created using an iPad and digital software including Sketches Pro, Brushes Redux and Pixelmator Pro.

Open 5pm-9pm   
More details at http://www.artbyindie.com

Wakefield SACRE is delighted to present art work created by children for their art competition 2024: Sacred Spaces

Open 5pm-9pm   

An exhibition of photographs by Derek Walmsley, one of the canons at Wakefield Cathedral, documenting the changing skies above St John’s church tower.

Open 5pm-9pm   

Robert P. Clarke is launching "Stride and Strife", a new collection of poetry and art, full book launch with book signings and new poetry readings with additional open mic slots available on the night on the theme of the Miners Strike 40th Anniversary connected to the Red Shed's exhibition above.

Open 7:30pm-8:30pm   

As well as the permanent displays and videos about the life of Victorian novelist George Gissing (1857-1903) there is a small display of drawings by Rev Thomas Kilby: "Scenery in the Vicinity of Wakefield" (1843). You are invited to see if you can recognise areas of Wakefield 180 years ago.

Open 5pm-8pm   

Hidden Gem is a gift shop situated in The Old Vicarage, a building which is described on the council website as being a place of historical interest. Created for the Artwalk, will be a reading of poetry, specifically written around the vicarage and surrounding area, at approximately 6.30pm.

Open 5pm-9pm, poetry reading at 6:30pm   
More details at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088429647414

Wakefield Camera Club's annual exhibition will be open late for Artwalk. Come and join us for an exhibition of members' work on display at The Ridings Centre, just outside M&S.

Open 5pm-8pm   
More details at http://www.wakefieldcameraclub.org.uk

I am returning to exhibiting with the Artwalk, after a six year break. My style is vibrant acrylic colours on canvas, depicting architecture from around the world and from my imagination. Artwalk night sees the return of my pop-ular pop-up stall 'Takeaways for a tenner' - paintings and limited edition art pieces.

Open 5pm-11pm   

Art photos by Robert P. Clarke showing shadow images and other recent works.

Photo Wall   
Open 5pm-11pm   

Maddie Morris is an artist who strives to make a difference in the world. Bold, insightful and refreshingly unique, she takes traditional song in new directions to shine a light on contemporary issues, offering new perspectives about the world we live in today. After graduating with a first-class honours degree from Leeds Conservatoire, Maddie soon made waves by winning the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, as well as landing a grant from the Alan Surtees Trust. From these firm foundations, her career has gone from strength to strength, with recent performances including Cropredy and Cambridge Folk Festival.

Cafe Area   
Open 5pm-8pm   

The Art House is delighted to stage the first major solo exhibition by Charan Singh, whose practice is informed by his involvement with HIV/AIDS work and community activism. He uses photography, video and text to explore a ‘pre-English language’ life to create artistic resistance through storytelling and fictional fragments – expressing multi-layered gender experiences and the ephemeral nature of queer desire.

Following his 2023 residency at The Art House, Singh has developed a new series of sculpture and photographic studio portraits. Through the medium of photography, The Promise of Beauty will re-examine and re-create minor figures from Company Paintings – hybrid paintings made in India, by Indian artists, many of whom worked for European patrons.

The artist uses these explorations to disrupt Euro-American versions of queerness. He subverts the genre by disorienting the viewer’s gaze, who may be familiar with this style of painting and ‘oriental photographs’ taken by Western artists. However, closer inspection reveals Singh’s works are self-portraits, dealing with the themes of intimacy, vulnerability and desire.

Gallery   
Open 5pm-8pm   

Learning Space   
Open 5pm-8pm   

The exhibition will revisit Gupta’s significant project, Lovers: Ten Years On which he first began in 1984 to reframe the lives of gay couples and challenge commercial stereotypes in visual culture. Approaching a milestone 40th anniversary, the artist will present a selection of the original series, alongside brand-new large-scale photographs made for the premiere of Lovers, Revisited, with collaborator, and husband, Charan Singh.

Tiled Gallery   
Open 5pm-8pm    Photography

Jen Watson - Yorkshire Artist is in the exhibition space at Westgate Art Studios from 5:30-8pm making a community art piece suitable for all, in the medium of mosaics that will be part of a 4m/2m art instillation called STRATA. It will be installed in Lightwaves Community Centre in December as part of Wakefield's OUR YEAR 2024. Call in and contribute a little or a lot, and join in hundreds of other adults and children in Wakefield to make a fantastic communiry art piece that will be on display for generations to come!

Project Space   
Open 5:30pm-8pm   

CoActive Arts presents Do You See Me, portraits of pride and protest. An exploration of self portraits featuring work by 12 CoActive artists. Their starting point was considering how they wanted others to see them. From this people developed their own expressions of self portraits, including a collaboration with photographer Matt Rogers to create photographic portraits of 6 of the artists depicting fantastical versions of themselves.

Studio A4 (The Big Room)   
Open 5pm-9pm   

Join Steven from Empath Action CIC and the Postcards from Wakefield team to read uplifting mental health and wellbeing messages, and write one yourself!

Studio A4 (The Big Room)   
Open 5pm-9pm   

Inspired by Pink Floyd's iconic anthem, this program isn't just another brick in the wall – it's a chance to break free and explore artistic expression through a unique Home Ed lens. Join us to see what we have created as we delve into the themes of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall". lt has been perfect for our curious young minds wanting to explore art, music, and self-expression in a supportive and creative environment, come along and see what we have on offer over the holidays and in our next academic term.

Studio A4 (The Big Room)   
Open 5pm-9pm   

Join Michael Yates and Angie De Courcy Bower at 6pm in the big room for a half hour of fantastic, fun and heartfelt poetry.

Studio A4 (The Big Room)   
Open Performance at 6pm    Spoken Word

Latest paintings in progress.

Studio B13   
Open 5pm-9pm   

Robert P. Clarke will be presenting his current artwork, along side a new collection of poetry and art books 'Stride and Strife' and 'The Long and Short of the Round Oblong'.

Studio B14   

Open studio showing works in progress.

Studio B15   
Open 5pm-9pm   

Charlotte Blacker (Animator and University lecturer) is showing a selection of her students work from HBU-UCLAN, a Chinese-UK partnership between the University of Central Lancashire and HBU University based in Hebei Province, China.

There will also be an opportunity to see work in progress from Josie Moonbeam and Inspire Arts.

Studio B3   
Open 5pm-9pm   

Prepare for an evening filled with laughter, reflection, and the beauty of language - along with an open studio of the works of Kate Wray.

Michael brings his powerful and diverse voice to The Art Exchange CIC. His poems explore a range of emotions, from the humorous to the deeply poignant, inspired by his experiences during the Covid pandemic. His recently published novel, "Dying is the Last Thing You Ever Want to Do", promises a captivating read.

Susan McCartney is master of weaving whimsy and wit with deeper themes, she will captivate you with her performance poems. Her work ranges from the comical to the subtly serious, often drawing inspiration from the stories of women who worked in munitions factories during wartime. Currently, Susan is crafting monologues based on the intriguing fictional character of Doris, blurring the lines between reality and imagination.

Studio B5   
Open 5pm-9pm, with live performance 7pm-7:30pm   

Victoria has a love of nature, detail, and texture and combines these to make art that makes people smile. Her works carry important messages of wellbeing and self care. These positive messages are conveyed through joyful imagery filled with imagined creatures and beings, hidden symbolism, and small details. Her aim is to make art that brings people joy and perhaps even some comfort.

Victoria primarily works digitally, producing high quality giclée prints of her original images. Victoria also makes 3D textile and clay sculptures, where she indulges her love of texture using various mediums and acrylic paints. All work is available to purchase.

Studio B5   
Open 5pm-8pm   

Antje Rayner is a jewellery designer, maker and silversmith, displaying a range of bespoke products and techniques.

Studio B6   
Open 5pm-9pm   

I will also be selling 2nd hand artists resources, sketchbooks, canvases and wooden frames, and maybe some pastels in behalf of Crafting4Good CIC.

Studio B8   
Open 5pm-9pm   

Open studios showing works-in-progress.

Studio C2   
Open 5pm-8pm   

Monochrome works: charcoal drawings and analogue photographs.

Studio C5   
Open 5pm-9pm