Exhibitions

The Art House presents Divine Archives, the first solo exhibition by Wakefield-based artist Emily Ryalls. Through photography, performance and sculpture, her practice centres on women’s embodied knowledge and the ways we understand…

Relive Wakefield’s historic 2025 Reclaim the Night march through an exhibition that celebrates collective action, solidarity and the ongoing fight for safer streets. The Tiled Gallery will be transformed using film footage, handmade…

Internationally-acclaimed photographer Emily Andersen presents Somewhere Else Entirely, a three-screen video installation exploring the life and work of American-born poet Ruth Fainlight (b.1931). Known for her intensely visual writing on memory, domestic life and…

Wakefield’s renowned status as a City of Sculpture makes it the ideal home for this exciting project with the Royal Society of Sculptors, welcoming the Gilbert Bayes Award 2025 Winners Exhibition to the city. This…

Opening our 2026 summer season, The Art House presents Winner of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2024-25, Harriet Bowman with the exhibition Slow Puncture, an ambitious installation exploring the entanglement of body, vehicle and…

REVIVER is Jakob Rowlinson’s first UK institutional project, presented as a solo exhibition at The Art House in Wakefield, and an installation, ROTATOR, in the main Centre at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, having developed from a 2024…

Annabel Moeller is well known for her elegantly perceptive images of the performing arts. This exhibition celebrates these works and contrasts them with the lesser-known aspect of her career. At regular intervals…

New Stories brings together the works of 25 Indian women photographers, each offering a distinct insight into wide-ranging contemporary, visual narratives. This exhibition is a testament to the evolving language of photography,…

Magic Place is a vibrant, interactive playspace inviting people of all ages to play, create, listen, and watch within an ever-changing environment. The space responds continuously to visitor presence, turning participation into…

Love Stories will present series of photographs by a select group of photographers who use duration to capture the raw reality of everyday intimacy – exploding the idealised notions of love prevalent…

Heath Robinson Watercolours showcases his unpublished watercolour works. Heath Robinson trained as an artist at the Royal Academy Schools and always saw himself as an artist. He earned his living as an illustrator…

Heath Robinson at War shows a wide selection of Heath Robinson’s humorous drawings from both World Wars, containing original artwork, books, Christmas cards made for different military units and letters from the…

Best known as the celebrated ‘Gadget King’, Heath Robinson was far more than an imaginative inventor of whimsical machines. Trained as a landscape artist, he developed strong technical skills and a deep…

Archaeology and empire explores the complex entanglements of Scotland the Caribbean, revealing how even ancient sites have connections to empire and colonialism. The exhibition highlights key sites across the Isle of Lewis,…

It’s 8:30. Do you know where your brains are? is the first exhibition in the UK to present the work of Paper Tiger Television (PTTV), a US-based video production and distribution collective. Over…

Joan Miró: Fire in the Soul brings together a carefully curated selection of works that traces the key axes of Miró’s creative universe. From his deep bond with the landscape to the…

Ecstasy and the Aftermath explores how love is formed, broken, and remembered through myth and ritual. Bringing together contemporary artworks with objects from the Sainsbury Centre’s collection, the exhibition examines desire, ecstasy,…

Tracing the visual history of kissing across 10,000 years, from prehistory to its digital expressions in the 21st century, this exhibition explores the kiss as a universal language through which desire, power,…

The Songs The Morning Sang A collaborative project by poet Ian McMillan and photographer Andrew Brooks Exhibition overview The Songs the Morning Sang invites audiences to explore the streets where they live in the early…

54321 FAB! The Future Was Fantastic is a stunning exhibition celebrating the television series of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the husband and wife team who produced Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, Space…