Art Exhibitions
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 25
The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize showcases the work of talented early career photographers, gifted amateurs and established professionals in the very best of contemporary photography.
From Life | Portraits by Richard Kitson
Wentworth Woodhouse presents a selection of portraits by figurative painter, Richard Kitson.
Silent Thunder - Exploration in Colour
Art Exhibition by Elesha Searles
Art in the Aisles
A two day Art Fair that coincides with the first weekend of Open Up Sheffield.
Open Up Artists’ Studios 2026
An open studio festival in May showcasing over 140 emerging and award-winning artists and makers at 83 exciting venues in and around Sheffield. This year it will take place over two weekends, 2 - 4 May and 9 - 10 May 2026.
The Sykes Gallery Metalwork Collection
Sheffield Museums’ Metalwork Collection is one of the finest in the world. It contains the cutlery, flatware and tableware that have made Sheffield famous, as well as beautiful objects collected from every continent.
Sheffield Stories: Caribbean Footsteps
This new exhibition celebrates the many ways that people of African Caribbean heritage have contributed to Sheffield life.
In Conversation: On the Border of my Peaceful Home
This new exhibition, curated by artist Kedisha Coakley, brings together artworks, objects and specimens from Sheffield’s collection to explore the relationship between Empire and the trade in fruit and flowers.
Gathering Landscapes: 150 Years of Collecting at Weston Park Museum
This new exhibition, curated by Heavy Water Collective, examines the curious, beautiful, macabre and magical connections people have made to the land through over 400 objects from Sheffield’s eclectic museum collections.
The Ruskin Collection: Storm-Cloud – The Look of the Sky
In 1884, John Ruskin delivered one of the first lectures to discuss climate change and make a link to industrial pollution. Storm-Cloud brings together work from the Guild of St George’s Ruskin Collection curated by young people, video work by Jake Goodall and research by the University of Sheffield to explore the legacy of Ruskin’s groundbreaking observations.
