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Studio and Gallery of Sanctuary Wed 26th Mar 2025
The Studio of Sanctuary will be displaying work from the Talk & Draw sessions and from local people in the asylum process.
The Art House has held a City of Sanctuary award since 2017, and in 2023 became a Studio and Gallery of Sanctuary.
The Art House offers artists and creatives in the asylum process the opportunity and the resources to rekindle their skills and aspirations. Artists and creatives in the asylum process are offered support, friendship and materials, many of which have been donated by local artists.
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The 20:20 Print Exchange Exhibition Wed 26th Mar 2025
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Portraits in Silence - The Symbolism of Identity Wed 26th Mar 2025
Step into the world of Christopher Hanson’s powerful new exhibition, Portraits in Silence – The Symbolism of Identity. Through a captivating series of large-scale, realistic portraits, Hanson challenges traditional notions of representation, focusing on people historically excluded from classical portraiture. Trained at the London Academy of Representational Art, Hanson’s classical approach is grounded in an exploration of identity, race, and culture.
Drawing on his unique experience as the first and only Black artist to graduate from the London Academy of Representational Art – an atelier school with traditional teaching methods – Hanson’s work explores the beauty, fascination and complexity of Black and Brown bodies, which historically have been depicted in painting as exotic, hyper-sexual and hyper-masculine. In this new exhibition, the artist invites viewers to see beyond this and connect with the raw, intimate stories of those historically excluded from classical painting or on the margins of society.
Refreshments provided and speeches from 6:15pm.
More details at
https://the-arthouse.org.uk/exhibitions/christopher-hanson-portraits-in-silence-the-symbolism-of-identity/
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Untouchable Utopia Wed 26th Mar 2025
Originally from Nepal and now living in Sheffield, Harijan showcases a bold collection of paintings and sculptures that reflect his artistic vision and dedication to social change.
Harijan’s work challenges societal traditions, hierarchies, and religious structures, highlighting the struggles faced by minority communities worldwide. His practice addresses the ongoing issue of caste discrimination. As the son of a shoemaker from Nepal’s so-called lower “Dalit” caste, Harijan uses his art to highlight and act against injustice.
Refreshments provided and speeches from 6:15pm.
More details at
https://the-arthouse.org.uk/exhibitions/manish-harijan/
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Nature: Sensory Wed 29th Jan 2025
The Art House is thrilled to present Nature: Sensory, an exhibition that reimagines how we experience the environment. Moving beyond the visual, the show invites audiences to engage with nature through alternative senses such as touch and movement. Featuring work by disabled artists and those living with long-term health conditions, the exhibition offers fresh, unique interpretations of Wakefield’s green spaces. Through their responses to the theme Nature:Sensory, the artists challenge traditional perceptions of landscape, revealing unexpected and thought-provoking perspectives.
You can find out more about Nature Sensory on Instagram @naturesensorywakefield
Featuring artists Amelia Baron, Jessie Davies, Helen Thomas, Sam Metz and Michelle Duxbury, Nature: Sensory is funded with a Culture Grant by Wakefield Council as part of Our Year – Wakefield District 2024, and supported by The Art House.
More details at
https://the-arthouse.org.uk/exhibitions/naturesensory/
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Studio & Gallery of Sanctuary Wed 29th Jan 2025
The Art House Studio and Gallery of Sanctuary offers people in the asylum process the opportunity to reconnect with their creativity and their artistic backgrounds.
All the works have been made from donated or recycled materials. Some of the exhibitors have been professionals in varying art fields and others practice different arts for pleasure.
The Art House will display various artworks in Studio 3, which is at the rear of the building on Mulberry Way.
People displaying work will include:
Mehrdad – practices Persian Calligraphy
Mohammad – enjoys portraiture
Biniam – is a young self-taught sketch artist
Bryam Mucheriwa – has been in the asylum process for many years and is displaying trees from his ‘Long Walk’ artwork
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Paradise Carpet Wed 27th Nov 2024
The Art House is delighted to announce its winter exhibition, Paradise Carpet by the British Muslim artist Zarah Hussain. The exhibition combines a stunning fusion of animation, immersive light projections and bold colourful artworks.
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Makers Wonderland Wed 27th Nov 2024
Embrace the spirit of the season by supporting independent talent at The Art House. Searching for those perfect, one-of-a-kind gifts while giving back to the creative community? Look no further — Wakefield’s new immersive retail experience, Makers Wonderland, is your ultimate winter destination
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Bijan Amini-Alavijeh: A Glimmer Wed 25th Sep 2024
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Babeworld: No Sleep Just Clouds Wed 25th Sep 2024
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The Disabled Photography Society Exhibition Wed 25th Sep 2024
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Lovers: Ten Years On & Lovers, Revisited Wed 31st Jul 2024
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.
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ResonaTree Wed 31st Jul 2024
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Maddie Morris (They/Them) Wed 31st Jul 2024
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.
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The Promise Of Beauty Wed 31st Jul 2024
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.
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The Gilbert Bayes Award Wed 29th May 2024
The annual Gilbert Bayes Award is offered by Royal Society of Sculptors to provide vital support for early-career sculptors during what can be a difficult transition from their studies to professional practice. The award is open to sculptors of any age or nationality, with or without formal training and working in any style of media, and is generously supported by the Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust. Each year the winners are selected by a guest judge.
Selected by artist, founder and technologist Harry Yeff (Reeps100), this exhibition brings together the 2023 awardees, Alexandra Searle, Alice Sheppard Fidler, Erika Trotzig, Flora Bradwell, Kelly Marie O’Brien, Louise Ward Morris, Nathan Anthony, Ned Prizeman, Polam Chan, Sophie Cunningham and Srabani Ghosh.
More details at
https://the-arthouse.org.uk/exhibitions/the-royal-society-of-sculptors-presents-the-gilbert-bayes-award/
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Unlimited presents Simon Walker Wed 29th May 2024
Enjoy music by our Wakefield Micro Award artist, Simon Walker.
Simon Walker is an award winning singer/songwriter from West Yorkshire who has been performing through the UK and abroad for the last several years.
Walker is currently recording his debut album which features some big names such as Jesse Charland (Hoobastank) & Josh Paul (Daughtry/Everclear).
Walker has had various radio plays on BBC introducing and has recently had some chart success with his last single ‘Worthless’ reaching #4 in the iTunes Charts.
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Holyground Records Wed 29th May 2024
Holyground Records is possibly the first truly independent record label in England. Established in Wakefield by Mike Levon in 1965, it ran until his death in 2011.
This is an exhibition of archive photographs, album covers, studio notes etc and is complimentary to the 15 episode podcast of the Oral History of Holyground Records.
More details at
http://holyground.co.uk
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INTERNAL Wed 27th Mar 2024
“Stripping back the walls between the inner and outer worlds to explore the boundaries between our physical bodies and our conscious mind. Beneath our skin the interconnected networks give life to flesh, somewhere within this matrix sits who we are.”
Andy Singleton is a Wakefield-based artist whose practice investigates the natural and man-made world through intricate paper cuttings, paper sculpture, hand-drawn illustrations and large-scale installations.
Internal is an exhibition of recent sculptures, made from paper, that explore the complex networks that are contained within our bodies. The artist delves beneath the skin to reveal the beauty and mystery of our internal world.
Using intricate pieces of cut paper and suspended in the beautiful setting of the Tiled Gallery, Singleton’s three-dimensional forms invites us to examine the internal complexity of the human body. The work asks us to consider how we connect to the outer human experience and the natural world. The installation is accompanied by a musical score created by composer Allan Stelmach, which further adds to the beauty and contemplative nature of this incredibly impactful work.
Internal was supported with a Culture Grant by Wakefield Council as part of Our Year – Wakefield District 2024.
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Soft & Hard: Beyond Recognition and Queer Coding Wed 31st Jan 2024
The Art House welcomes Whiskey Chow, a London-based artist, Chinese drag king, and Tutor at the Royal College of Art (RCA), who brings together a group of artists exploring what ‘Queer spirit’ means in artistic practice today. Living in different timelines of LGBTQIA+ movements, and constantly negotiating with complex power dynamics from intersectional and cross-cultural perspectives, Queer artists often invent new visual approaches to address their desires and concerns.
More details at
https://the-arthouse.org.uk/
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Kirstie Williams: Mills in Colour Wed 31st Jan 2024
The Art House presents Mills in Colour, a new exhibition by local textile artist and printmaker Kirstie Williams. The exhibition explores Wakefield’s rich textile history through the use of natural dyes and printing pastes.
Williams has spent the past 6 months working on a research and development project experimenting with the use of natural colour and plant-based printing inks whilst exploring imagery of Wakefield’s textile mill heritage. Williams; project explores sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives to screen printing inks, whilst raising awareness of the many lost or repurposed mills across the Wakefield area.
Alongside Williams’ research and technical samples, the exhibition will feature printed textile works exploring the imagery of significant mill buildings, delving into historic dye recipes and highlighting documents related to the use and sale of the mills.
Original imagery and sources from Wakefield Libraries Photographic Collection and the West Yorkshire Archive Service collections. Mills in Colour was supported with a Culture Grant by Wakefield Council as part of Our Year – Wakefield District 2024.
