The Art House Wakefield

21/10/2026

Halloween workshops and more! 👻🎃

🧑‍🎨 Darkroom Magic: Alternative Photography | 31 October, 10:00-14:00

Celebrate Halloween by stepping into the darkroom for an introduction to the mysterious world of cameraless photography. On this one-day workshop, you’ll explore three alternative photographic processes: lumen printing, chemigrams and photograms.

🎨 The Homeware Series: Sgraffito Plates | 4 November, 18:00-20:30

Explore Sgraffito with Local Ceramicist Hannah Way! Working with coloured slips, you’ll learn how to carve through the surface to reveal contrasting layers beneath, creating patterns, botanical motifs, or your own unique designs.

🏺 Intro to Bookbinding: Three Week Course | Starts 12 November, 18:00-20:30

Perfect for anyone who loves to journal, learn the skills of bookbinding on this short course. Using simple stitching, folding and gluing techniques, you’ll discover how to transform sheets of paper and beautiful materials into your very own handmade books.

Head to the link in our bio to see our full lineup of creative workshops and courses! 🔗

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19/10/2026

19/10/2026

📣 LAST CHANCE TO APPLY! 📣 

Do you have a research driven practice? We’re looking for applications from contemporary artists working in ANY medium or across disciplines.

This could include sculpture, installation, moving image, sound, photography, performance, socially engaged practice, textiles, print, digital practice, writing, painting or approaches that move between forms.

You do not need to be a historian or have previous experience of working with museum collections. We’re more interested in how you think as an artist: your curiosity, the questions you ask, the connections you make and how research might feed into your practice.

We particularly welcome artists who are excited by archives, overlooked histories, personal stories, material culture, social history or the relationship between past and present.

We want to give a contemporary artist the time to look again at a seemingly traditional civic collection and see where it takes them.

🌟 Fully funded – £3,000 for fees, materials and travel.

🏠 Accommodation and studio provided

🧑‍🎨 Free access to The Art House’s Maker Spaces including Darkroom, Print Studio and Ceramic Studio

Please share this opportunity with any artists you think you be interested!

🔗 See full details about the residency and how to apply on our website through the link in our bio.

📅 Deadline to apply – Thursday 22 October at 11:00AM

The residency is supported by Wakefield Council with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the Our Heritage, Our Stories programme.

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18/10/2026

Happy World Menopause Day 💕🌿

Today is a chance to talk openly about menopause, share experiences, challenge the stigma, and remind women that they don’t have to navigate this time alone.

Create the Change, our Arts and Wellbeing course in partnership with Evergreen Active CIC allows women to come together to learn, move, create, talk and connect. Finding practical ways to support their wellbeing while sharing the ups and downs of perimenopause and menopause with others who share their experiences.

These zines pages are just some of the creative ways women on our course have explored their experiences, expressed how they feel, and made sense of the changes they’re going through.

🔗 Read more on our website

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17/10/2026

We have so many incredible makers coming your way at the CRAFTED Market! 🛍️

dress_bypolly Mondnah Jewellery every nook 🔸 home fragrance to light up your retro vibe Pine & Plover and Slow Progress ~ Elyn

Don’t miss out, join us on 9 May, 10:00-16:00

🔗 Find out more or plan your visit through the link in our bio.

[Carousel Description: Image 1 - A floral print tailored top with a ‘DRESS’ tag. Image 2 - A market table display of fine jewellery. Image 3 - A close up photograph of glass jar candles burning. Image 4 - A print themed around Filey Brigg. Image 5 - A brown and navy quilted cushion on a leather armchair.]

16/10/2026

Do you have a research driven creative practice? We’re looking for applications from contemporary artists working in any medium or across disciplines.

🌟 Fully funded – £3,000 for fees, materials and travel.

🏠 Accommodation and studio provided

🧑‍🎨 Free access to The Art House’s Maker Spaces including Darkroom, Print Studio and Ceramic Studio

Whether you work with sculpture, installation, moving image, sound, photography, performance, socially engaged practice, textiles, print, digital practice, writing, painting or approaches that move between forms, we want to hear from you.

You do not need to be a historian or have previous experience of working with museum collections. We’re more interested in how you think as an artist: your curiosity, the questions you ask, the connections you make and how research might feed into your practice.

We particularly welcome artists who are excited by archives, overlooked histories, personal stories, material culture, social history or the relationship between past and present.

We want to give a contemporary artist the time to look again at a seemingly traditional civic collection and see where it takes them.

Please share this opportunity with any artists you think you be interested!

🔗 See full details about the residency and how to apply on our website through the link in our bio.

📅 Deadline to apply – Thursday 22 October at 11:00AM

The residency is supported by Wakefield Council with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the Our Heritage, Our Stories programme.

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16/10/2026

Hospital Rooms are running two free workshops at The Art House this October, led by artists featured in the What Art Can Change exhibition.

✨ Shimmering Horizons with Meera Shakti Osborne | Tuesday 27 October, 1pm to 3pm

What do you see in your future? Explore personal futures, memory and possibility through painting, writing and conversation with London-based multimedia artist and youth worker Meera Shakti Osborne.

Book a place at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2002066109628?aff=oddtdtcreator

✏️ Drawing Stories with Benaiah Matheson | Wednesday 28 October, 1pm to 3pm

Join Huddersfield-based artist Benaiah Matheson for an intuitive drawing and storytelling session, layering drawings on coloured and tracing paper over illuminated light pads, alongside personal writing you can share or keep private.

Book a place at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2002100498486?aff=oddtdtcreator

Find out more at https://hospital-rooms.com

16/10/2026

We’re pleased to announce Rachael Colley recipient of the 2026 Crafting the Future Artist Residency will be joining us at The Art House next month!

Through wearables and sculpture, Rachael Colley aims to challenge our collective connections with food and communicate aspects of her lived experience with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis (SSc). By exploring materials and sustainable design approaches, she reappropriates traditional leatherworking processes and applies them to organic food waste, referencing the internal hardening of skin and connective tissues caused by SSc.

Colley intends to spend her time at The Art House researching critically endangered crafts including sustainable paper making and dyes, as well as pigment-making using organic materials from our Urban Gardens.

Images courtesy of Rachael Colley, Assistive Objects, 2025. Photographer Chelsea Abbott.

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15/10/2026

CRAFTED is just a few weeks away! We’re so excited to welcome you all in to shop with some of Wakefield’s top Artists, Designers and Makers 🛍️

Shop, eat, and join in free activities throughout the day.

Mark L Gittins Molly Pilkington David Fox Slow Progress ~ Elyn Ruth Fones Abbie Lois Studio Becky Mann Mondnah Jewellery Matthew Storrow 家庭作業 HOMEWORK every nook 🔸 home fragrance to light up your retro vibe Angus Vasili Pine & Plover and Eye Wood Vintage and Vinyl

🔗 Plan your visit through the link in our bio.

🗓️ Saturday 7 November, 10:00-16:00 | Free, everyone welcome

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