Take time to slow down, notice and reflect as you immerse your senses in the beauty of Weston Park as spring emerges.
Art picks
Take a Sheffield art tour with our picks of the exhibitions and artists' events on now and coming soon.
Evening Workshop: Punch Needle Embroidery
Thu. 12 March 2026
Millennium Gallery
Enjoy a special evening workshop creating a beautiful floral inspired embroidered artwork to hang in your home.
Encounters by Alison Edmonds / In her nature by Lyn Hodnett
Sat. 14 February 2026 — Sat. 14 March 2026
Cupola Gallery
A pair of new exhibitions at Cupola Gallery.
Saturday Art Workshop: Gathering Landscapes with the Heavy Water Collective
Sat. 21 March 2026
Weston Park Museum
Join the artists from Heavy Water Collective for a hands-on workshop exploring how collections and archives can inspire new creative work relevant to themes of today. Develop your own artefact using jesmonite, clay and drawing.
Evening Talk: Gathering Landscapes with Heavy Water Collective
Thu. 26 March 2026
Weston Park Museum
Delve deeper into the Gathering Landscapes exhibition with its curators, artists Heavy Water Collective.
Invasion of the Saucermen - The Visual Folklore of UFOs
Thu. 12 March 2026 — Thu. 2 April 2026
Old Post Hall
An exhibition exploring our obsession with the unknown, our desire to believe, and photography’s problematic role as visual evidence. With over 350 drawings alongside UFO related images, publications, videos and artefacts.
Saturday Workshop: Portrait Painting with Tina Ramos Ekongo
Sat. 18 April 2026
Millennium Gallery
Artist Tina Ramos Ekongo will guide you through the process of creating a portrait, from sketching the facial features to painting in acrylic. For any level of experience.
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.
Late: How We Look
Thu. 23 April 2026
Millennium Gallery
See the gallery through fresh eyes and focus on ‘how we look’ during an evening of hands-on philosophy.
Open Up Sheffield
Multiple dates
Sheffield's annual artists' open studios festival, taking place over two weekends and a bank holiday in May.
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 25
Sat. 21 February 2026 — Sun. 10 May 2026
Millennium Gallery
A showcase of work by talented early career photographers, gifted amateurs and established professionals in the very best of contemporary photography.
Plantation
Fri. 20 February 2026 — Sun. 17 May 2026
Site Gallery
An exhibition exploring land use, ownership and environmental collapse through the experiences of agricultural workers. Featuring artist Rehana Zaman's film works, in an immersive sculptural landscape.
Paul Allender: The Promise
Thu. 11 June 2026 — Sat. 20 June 2026
Yellow Arch Studios
Sheffield-based artist Paul Allender presents his recent paintings in the White Room at Yellow Arch. Many aspects of Paul's paintings reflect his experiences of growing up in Neepsend and Parson Cross. With an exhibition opening evening on the 11th.
More Than a Degree: 120 Years of Life at the Student Union
Mon. 2 February 2026 — Sun. 28 June 2026
Western Bank Library
An exhibition of historic items and photographs from the University archives and heritage collections, sharing a wealth of stories of student life to inform, surprise and entertain.
When the Day is Done: New Paintings by Ryan Mosley
Thu. 26 February 2026 — Sat. 4 July 2026
Graves Gallery
This spring, the Graves Gallery welcomes the first solo exhibition by acclaimed Sheffield-based artist Ryan Mosley. With new works weaving together characters and narratives, reality and fiction, the everyday and the exotic.
Future Now Festival of Creativity
Wed. 1 April 2026 — Fri. 31 July 2026
An annual showcase of work by Sheffield Hallam University’s graduating artists, designers, filmmakers, animators, writers, architects and performers.
Sheffield Comic Arts Fair
Sat. 10 October 2026
Trafalgar Warehouse, 120 Trafalgar Street, S1 4JT
A showcase of indie and small press comic creators from Sheffield and further afield. With a Graphic Novel Reading Room corner, a kids workshop and bar.
Gathering Landscapes: 150 Years of Collecting at Weston Park Museum
Fri. 28 November 2025 — Sun. 1 November 2026
Weston Park Museum
A look at the curious, beautiful, macabre and magical connections people have made to the land through over 400 objects from Sheffield’s collections. Curated by Heavy Water Collective (artists Maud Haya-Baviera, Victoria Lucas and Joanna Whittle).
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.
Revolution, Revelation, Reinforcement: Queer Legacies in Sheffield’s Art Collection
Thu. 26 February 2026 — Sat. 27 February 2027
Graves Gallery
LGBTQ+ art and heritage have endured across the centuries, with communities continuing to express and preserve their Queer stories. This new exhibition brings together artworks and objects from Sheffield’s collections to explore Queer art today.
Lick of Paint
A mural and street art festival. Returning for a second edition in 2027. Expect smaller creative events from the team throughout 2026 though – watch this space for details!