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The Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals

Art picks

Take a Sheffield art tour with our picks of the exhibitions and artists' events on now and coming soon.

Collateral Echoes

Wed. 18 June 2025 — Mon. 23 June 2025

Site Gallery

Artist-filmmaker Baff Akoto's immersive installation honouring the lives, memories and potential of Black and immigrant Britons killed after police contact. Combining XR, testimony, poetry from the late Benjamin Zephaniah and prose by Paapa Essiedu.

Future Now Festival of Creativity

Tue. 29 April 2025 — Fri. 4 July 2025

A showcase of work by Sheffield Hallam University’s graduating artists, designers, filmmakers, animators, writers, architects and performers.

Selected Space Sheffield

Fri. 11 July 2025 — Sun. 13 July 2025

Yorkshire Artspace: Persistence Works

Bringing together some of the region's finest artists, makers and designers for you to support and enjoy, over three days at Yorkshire Artspace.

Lick of Paint

Sat. 6 September 2025 — Sun. 7 September 2025

A weekend-long mural and street art festival. Bringing together local and international talent to transform the city's walls, underpasses and empty corners with powerful, high-quality public art.

Colour

Thu. 19 June 2025 — Sun. 14 September 2025

Millennium Gallery

This new exhibition brings together over 150 objects spanning art, science, nature and cultural histories, alongside a range of interactive activities.

Liliane Tomasko: The Psyche of the Portrait

Sat. 24 May 2025 — Sun. 12 October 2025

Millennium Gallery

For this new exhibition, New York-based visual artist Liliane Tomasko uses portraiture as an acute lens to shed light on the ever-changing human psyche.