Chantry Chapel
3 Calder Vale Rd, WF1 5DRComing up at the next Artwalk on 30th Jul
Building the Hepworth Wakefield
Brian Holding
The Chantry Chapel Artwalk presents Building the Hepworth Wakefield by Brian Holding.
Wakefield Waterfront has a long history with a medieval weir and a medieval mill that has one building surviving today. However, it is covered over and out of sight behind the Hepworth Wakefield.
Hepworth is one of the significant changes on the Waterfront. Planning for the Hepworth Gallery started in 2003 by Wakefield Council and Wakefield Art Gallery on Wentworth Terrace. The building of the Hepworth began in 2007, the same year I retired. As an amateur photographer, an opportunity to record the Hepworth being constructed with images of the Waterfront before work started. It is fascinating, with one side emerging out of the River Calder. How did they do that?
Join us for the exhibition, starting on the evening of July 30th, as part of the Wakefield Artwalk, from 5pm to 9pm. Additionally, the exhibition will be open for three further days at the Chantry Chapel, from 11am to 3pm.
Open 5pm-9pm
Previously at Chantry Chapel
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Duplicate Wed 28th May 2025An exhibition of screen prints inspired by architecture around Yorkshire that have been repeated to reinvent the original imagery into pattern. Edited photographs exposed on to screen mesh and printed using acrylic paint with printing medium mixed. Created by Ben Skidmore, an artist living and working in Wakefield, originally from Reading.
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Thomas Young Wed 28th May 2025Thomas Young is a self taught artist born in Wakefield in 1992 who makes figurative art using paint on canvas.
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Alley Scout Wed 26th Mar 2025I am a second year illustration student at York St John university. I typically work with paper creating relief layered collages using geometric shapes in a limited colour palette. My artwork often focuses on animals and the natural world including commissions of people's pets.
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Sandi Kinkead Wed 26th Mar 2025I am a local artist from Ossett. I have lived all over the world, which has influenced my use of colour and vibrancy. My art is in several mediums, including watercolour, ink, and tea!! I also love acrylic, oils/oil pastels, and soft pastels. I have been painting regularly for the last 3 or 4 years and am just embarking on the world of selling them.
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CoActive Arts Wed 25th Sep 2024CoActive Arts present work by two of our artists David Hartley and Scott Douglas. David is a founding member of the group, regularly attending for 20 years; this exhibition brings his work together with Scott, a more recent member who shares his interest in local history. David's paintings explore his experience of a recent cataracts operation, reflecting on similar motifs from earlier work as well as links to natural phenomenon like the solar eclipse and volcanic eruptions with an 'explosion of darkness with light around the edges'. Scott presents some drawings and paintings of the Chantry Chapel in his unique style combining image and narrative text.
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Susan Lindley Wed 31st Jul 2024Wool sculptures and artwork influenced by the local Yorkshire fauna, landscape and folklore.
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10,000 Miles Wed 31st Jul 2024Amy 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.
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Mandy & Lauren Asquith Wed 29th May 2024Artwork at the Chantry Chapel is an excellent exhibition of artwork by watercolourists Mandy Asquith and Lauren Asquith.
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10,000 Miles Wed 29th May 2024Amy 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.