Try your hand at a variety of crafts with hands-on activities and mini workshops in the Millennium Gallery’s flagship late-night crafting extravaganza.
Art picks
Take a Sheffield art tour with our picks of the exhibitions and artists' events on now and coming soon.
More and Less Human
Thu. 13 November 2025
National Videogame Museum
Explore how technological innovation challenges our ideas of what it means to be human, blurring the boundaries between human and machine.
Paintings by Andy Cropper
Sat. 11 October 2025 — Sat. 15 November 2025
Cupola Gallery
Best known for his atmospheric night‑time cityscapes, Andy Cropper has been mapping Sheffield in paint since 2009. This exhibition forms a portrait of a city across time, light and memory, revealing the evolution of his craft over 16 years.
ESEA Futures
Fri. 10 October 2025 — Sat. 15 November 2025
Bloc Projects
An annual programme foregrounding East and Southeast Asian art practices, presented by Bloc Projects and Platform Asia. With a group exhibition, moving image artwork screening, and closing party.
Autumn Almanac V
Fri. 24 October 2025 — Sun. 16 November 2025
Yorkshire Artspace: Persistence Works
The annual Yorkshire Artspace members show returns to Persistence Works.
Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios
Sat. 15 November 2025 — Sun. 16 November 2025
Yorkshire Artspace: Persistence Works
Each November, over a hundred creative residents at Yorkshire Artspace's two sites open their doors to the public for one weekend. Meet some of Sheffield's most talented artists, nosy around their creative workplaces, and enjoy workshops and demos.
Winter Makers Market hosted by Endless Love Creative
Sat. 22 November 2025
Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, S1 2BX
A curated market, celebrating the beauty of independent art, craft and design.
Sheffield Peace & Craft Fair
Sat. 22 November 2025
Sheffield Town Hall, Pinstone Street, S1 2HH
An annual fair with its origins in Sheffield's radical 70s. With over 40 stalls of some of the best of our city's homemade crafts.
Open Studios & Christmas Market
Sat. 29 November 2025
Portland Works
Meet some of the makers based in historic Portland Works and buy directly from them. With art, ceramics, glass, woodwork, print, jewellery and more.
Maverick Outlaw – Elliott King
Fri. 7 November 2025 — Mon. 1 December 2025
The Circle, 33 Rockingham Lane, S1 4FW
An exhibition experimental paint and pastel works with bold colour, pattern and layered mixed-media. From ArtWorks member Elliott King.
Slugs & Slug Life Film Screening
Fri. 12 December 2025
Site Gallery
A double bill of short film Slug Life (2018) followed by horror feature Slugs (1988).
Sheffield Artist Maker Exchange Winter Makers Market
Sat. 13 December 2025
Sheffield Artist Maker Exchange, 108 Prospect Road, Heeley, S2 3EN
Join Sheffield Artist Maker Exchange for an afternoon of festive crafts and a celebration of local makers.
Peter Blundell Jones: Architecture, Landscape and the City
Mon. 21 July 2025 — Sun. 14 December 2025
Western Bank Library
An exhibition celebrating the life, work and legacy of the late British architect, writer, and teacher Peter Blundell Jones who taught at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture.
Crafted
Sat. 25 October 2025 — Wed. 24 December 2025
Millennium Gallery
The Millennium Gallery’s annual selling showcase returns this autumn. Celebrating excellence in making across the region and beyond.
A World in Dots – Mark Kemp
Fri. 5 December 2025 — Mon. 5 January 2026
The Circle, 33 Rockingham Lane, S1 4FW
An exhibition from ArtWorks member Mark Kemp. With his signature pointillist style using bold colour to create immersive, fantastical landscapes.
Unquiet Landscapes
Fri. 5 December 2025 — Sat. 10 January 2026
Yorkshire Artspace: Persistence Works
An exhibition taking us on a journey into landscapes both real and imagined, psychological and metaphorical. Opening up a terrain that reflects our relationship with the landscape today.
New Horizons: Growing Sheffield’s Art Collection
Sat. 18 October 2025 — Sun. 25 January 2026
Millennium Gallery
Sheffield’s art collection has evolved since it was founded 150 years ago. This exhibition presents highlights of artworks that have joined the collection in the last 10 years. By Lubna Chowdhary, Grayson Perry, Bridget Riley, Marlene Smith and more.
Slime Mother
Fri. 3 October 2025 — Sun. 1 February 2026
Site Gallery
An immersive, multi-sensory exhibition by artist and writer Abi Palmer. With film, text, sculpture and installation, inviting us to be more slug-like – to slow down, merge and connect – embracing the resilient strangeness of this complex gastropod.
Sheffield Ceramics Festival
Sat. 18 April 2026 — Sun. 19 April 2026
Kelham Island Museum
Browse the wares of around 50 ceramic artists, potters and sculptors from South Yorkshire and beyond.
In Conversation: On the Border of my Peaceful Home
Tue. 24 June 2025 — Wed. 23 December 2026
Graves Gallery
An exhibition curated by artist Kedisha Coakley, bringing together artworks, objects and specimens from Sheffield’s collection to explore the relationship between empire and the trade in fruit and flowers.