Arts & Exhibitions

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Celebs tell us who they want to be UK City of Culture 2025

UK City of Culture 2025: The famous faces backing each shortlisted city
What do Tony Blair, drag queen Tess Tickle and 'Lost Voice Guy' from Britain's Got Talent all have in common?

Winter blues - Bolton Abbey by Jeremy Taylor

Art teacher and pupils get together for show

Thousands worldwide log on to Settle Stories 'most successful yet' Yorkshire Festival of Story

Seedscapes: Future-Proofing Nature is the first exhibition post-lockdown at Impressions Gallery

Bradford's Impressions Gallery gets set to reopen with new exhibition "more relevant than ever"

Bradford artists share lockdown artwork

VIRTUAL ART GALLERY: Bradford artists reveal lockdown-inspired creations

David Starley at the watercolour exhibition

Vibrant watercolour show at local art gallery

James Owen Thomas with the chair he collaged

James's art is causing a stir - and it's all made from scratchcards!

Film still from The Railway Children-pictured are L-R Gary Warren,Jenny Agutter and Sally Thomsett.

Memories of artist PKC

Jane Austin demonstrated at Keighley Art Club

A warm welcome but a frosty painting at club

Artist Kate Lycett with a selection of her work

Gallery builds on its “best ever” year

Bradford Cathedral

Here's the full events programme for Bradford Cathedral from now until April

Local artists display work for Christmas

Two of the banners unfurled at York Station

Dementia groups’ banners go on display at Manchester museum

Steven Spencer at the Urban Light art exhibition

Group of local artists set to stage new Christmas exhibition

Helen Shearwood with her artwork

Art helps Helen on road to good health

Artist Steven Spencer at the Urban Light art exhibition

Bar becomes art gallery for local talent

Judith Levin with one of her paintings. Picture: John Siddique

Local art exhibition celebrates moors

Anne Allen demonstrated Chinese painting

More for less in China

Pastel power for artists

Kafayat Adegoke by Graham Hardy

Gender inequality tackled in artwork

Emilia Bazydlo from the Peace Museum in the new gallery space in the Kirkgate Shopping Centre

Peace Museum transforms former shop unit in Kirkgate centre into new gallery space

Art explores pollution and litter

Beach huts by Brian Parker

From wardrobes to beach huts...the life of Brian

Exhibition by Simon Sugden featuring photographs of abandoned buildings around the country..

Photographer focuses on the delightfully derelict for museum exhibition

Exhibition marks moment in history

Curator Angela Sheard with one of the exhibits at the Our Plastic Ocean exhibition at Impressions Gallery

Plastic's impact on Earth's oceans highlighted in striking exhibition at Bradford gallery

Matthew Evans gave a demonstration to Keighley Art Club

How to add texture to a painting using acrylics

Bradford Peace Museum's Charlotte Hall with one of the exhibits

Peace Museum event to mark end of exhibition to be held on Treaty of Versailles centenary

Simon Sugden is bringing a new exhibition to Keighley

Shipley photographer's show explores beauty in abandoned places

An exhibition of the work of Beatrix Potter at Cartwright hall.

Last chance for young people to enter arts contest

Cliffe Castle Museum hosted the last art exhibition

Try the art of relaxation

Artist Martin Cosgrove who is exhibiting at Bradford Cathedral

Retired medic pursues his artistic ambition

William Gall of Pudsey demonstrated at Keighley Art Club

Club joins in art demo

Louise Carr who is showcasing her 'Stations of Lament' textile project at Bradford Cathedral

Sew good - new exhibition launches at Bradford Cathedral

Ben Snowden at the Bradford Open 2019 exhibition

Bradford artist Ben Snowden has a series of exhibitions across the UK and abroad

Harry Caunce when he visited Keighley Art Club

Harry creates canalside images in all weathers

Norman Ackroyd at work in his studio. Picture: Jill Mead

Norman Ackroyd's evocative etchings on show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Winter memories of Swaledale by Danny Abrahams

Artist Danny Abrahams reveals snow scenes in his latest solo exhibition

Artists Takeover Scratch Night at Kala Sangam, Bradford

Bradford poet Sharena Lee Satti performs at Kala Sangam

Art class at Marie Curie Hospice, Bradford

Art exhibition displays work of hospice patients

Ben Snowden at Silson Contemporary

Ben's art is on show across the UK

Tim Firth and Gary Barlow with the original Calendar Girls. Photo: Matt Crockett

Exhibition marks the 20th anniversary since the Calendar Girls stripped off for their charity calendar

TRANQUIL: View from the garden terrace

Wandering "o'er vales and hills" at beautiful Dove Cottage

The Peacock Gallery

New gallery space launched in city centre

Spotlight on Dalesman cover artist

One of Guy Wilkinson's abstract works

GUY'S PAINTINGS ARE A TOUR DE FORCE

One of Guy Wilkinson's abstract works

GUY'S PAINTINGS ARE A TOUR DE FORCE

File photo dated 28/08/16 of Britney Spears, who has thanked the LGBTQ community for its "unconditional" love as she was honoured by leading gay rights advocates. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday April 13, 2018. The singer, 36, was

Britney wins LGBT award for support

Ben Snowden with his work at the Roundhay Park exhibition

Bradford-based artist Ben Snowden exhibiting across Yorkshire

Irene Lofthouse at Undercliffe Cemetery. Picture: Andy Campbell-Manning

Historic cemetery inspires creative writing workshop

Artist Michael Shearing and Helen Avison from Small Office Supplies, have launched an art display, pictured with Jenny Jones, right, West Yorkshire regional fundraiser for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

Keighley shop sells man's paintings after being inspired by his brave story

Dance artiste and digital specialist Lucie Lee

Dance-inspired sculpture gives off sounds and smells

Artist Dan Jones. Pictures: Dan Jones and Sophie Hannah

Crime writer and artist husband come full circle to Bingley

Bradford artist, Bay Backner

Bradford artist, Bay Backner, launches her exhibition featuring the famous faces of some of the world's beautiful women