Wakefield Kirkgate Station

Monk Street, WF1 4EL
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Coming up at the next Artwalk on 26th Nov

Pontefract Art Club

Pontefract Art Club have displayed a number of paintings in the Community Gallery on Platform 2 at Kirkgate Train Station.

Community Gallery (Platform 2)   
Open 5pm-8pm   

Emergence
Helen Brook

This suspended sculptural installation was created during Helen’s environmental artist residency in Selby in early 2025.

During the residency, she explored Selby’s landscape, collaborated with local community groups through nature-connection workshops, and produced ephemeral works using found natural materials.

This installation evolved from those explorations, reflecting on the resilient beauty of nature’s cycles of growth, transformation, and decay over the changing season. Decaying leaves and seed heads gathered from the grounds of Selby Abbey were magnified and laser-cut onto pages from discarded Selby Library books, giving new life to materials once thought as waste.

The piece was produced using the laser-cutting facilities at The Art House, Wakefield. Helen is an artist based in West Yorkshire.

Emergence was commissioned by Now Then!, a creative programme making exciting things happen in Tadcaster, Selby, and Sherburn thanks to funding from North Yorkshire Council, Arts Council England and UKSPF.

Conference Suite   
Open 5pm-8pm   

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Previously at Wakefield Kirkgate Station

  • Tom Puddings at Stanley Ferry Wed 24th Sep 2025
    Come along to the island platform of Wakefield's Kirkgate Railway Station to see Wakefield Railway Modellers recreation of the Tom Puddings at Newland Basin, Stanley Ferry on the Aire & Calder Navigation. It will be on display at the station until Thursday 2nd October when it will move to WX Wakefield Exchange to participate in the Civic Society's unveiling of their Blue Plaque to Thomas Peckett, the locally-born engineer famous for locomotive manufacturing, and then at the WRMS exhibition at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School 11-12 October.
  • In Memory of Joe Wed 30th Jul 2025
    This exhibition records my first portrait painted in oils with a live model, it then goes on to record art work completed in the first few months of lockdown, up to the sudden death of my eldest son in May 2020. I was unable to complete a painting I was working on at this time and found it really difficult to connect with my art. In July 2022, I decided to try to compete a sketch a day to get my mojo back - it worked. All the work exhibited were drawn / painted en plein air.
  • Tree of Life Wed 28th May 2025
    This mixed media art exhibit was facilitated by the Outreach Team at Wakefield Hospice. The collaborative piece of artwork was created to provide an expression of belonging, friendship and sense of achievement for individuals within Wakefield, who are living with, or been impacted by life-limiting conditions. The group ran at The Art House for 10 weeks, and gave group members a chance to learn more around hospice and end-of-life care services available in the local area.