Scarborough Art
Scarborough Art
ABOUT SCARBOROUGH ART
Scarborough Art is an exciting new event taking place between Saturday 15 June and Sunday 4 August 2024 at various venues across Scarborough town centre and beyond, running as a sister festival with the Scarborough Fringe. It is an opportunity to visit different places and spaces around the area and discover work from across the creative community. It will also provide an online platform for people to browse and buy work via The Scarborough Fair website.
Artwork of a wide range of media will be showcased from paintings and sculpture to photography and printmaking. This event is perfect for art lovers of all ages to enjoy a day filled with creativity and inspiration. Come and celebrate the rich artistic heritage of Scarborough and find the hidden gems waiting to be uncovered. As well as exhibitions, several artists and makers across the town will be hosting
workshops for visitors to take part in and create art of their own.
Find out how to take part in Scarborough Art.
ARTS & CRAFTS
From stitching and textiles to jewellery making and pottery, these workshops and exhibitions are an exploration and celebration of making. There are opportunities to learn about different crafts by having a go at making a piece yourself, walks to immerse you in Scarborough’s landscape and inspire you, and unique works of art created in the community on display.
Click on each listing below to learn more about each.
ARTS & CRAFTS
From stitching and textiles to jewellery making and pottery, these workshops and exhibitions are an exploration and celebration of making. There are opportunities to learn about different crafts by having a go at making a piece yourself, walks to immerse you in Scarborough’s landscape and inspire you, and unique works of art created in the community on display.
Click on each listing below to learn more about each.
ARTS & CRAFTS
From stitching and textiles to jewellery making and pottery, these workshops and exhibitions are an exploration and celebration of making. There are opportunities to learn about different crafts by having a go at making a piece yourself, walks to immerse you in Scarborough’s landscape and inspire you, and unique works of art created in the community on display.
Click on each listing below to learn more about each.
WORKSHOPS
Scarborough Art is not just about viewing work – you can also make some by taking part in one (or more) of the workshops on offer. If you’ve ever wanted to make something but don’t know where to start look at the Home Spun Printmaking Workshops and create a work using recycled materials. Get creative with leftover fabric with Material Moves and make accessories to take home with you. At the Mixed Media Print Workshops you might create a complete piece of work or experiment with several new techniques. Finally – SHEP Kitchen are thinking about art in a completely different way and inviting you to make a masterpiece in the kitchen, combining both art and food.
INSTALLATION
Two immersive installations are being created for the festival. In St Mary’s Church, Birds of Heart and Sky by composer Sarah Dew celebrates vulnerable birds. Animated Objects are creating Touch Tour, an interactive tactile mural throughout the town.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PRINT WORK
Go on Celestial Adventures with Astro Dog at Electric Angel Gallery through a night photography and astrophotography exhibition. Learn more about photography yourself on a Photography Walk with Wandering Photography. Or head to the SeaGrown Centre at Vincent Pier to see an exhibition of their Artist of the Month.
WORKSHOPS
Scarborough Art is not just about viewing work – you can also make some by taking part in one (or more) of the workshops on offer. If you’ve ever wanted to make something but don’t know where to start look at the Home Spun Printmaking Workshops and create a work using recycled materials. Get creative with leftover fabric with Material Moves and make accessories to take home with you. At the Mixed Media Print Workshops you might create a complete piece of work or experiment with several new techniques. Finally – SHEP Kitchen are thinking about art in a completely different way and inviting you to make a masterpiece in the kitchen, combining both art and food.
INSTALLATION
Two immersive installations are being created for the festival. In St Mary’s Church, Birds of Heart and Sky by composer Sarah Dew celebrates vulnerable birds. Animated Objects are creating Touch Tour, an interactive tactile mural throughout the town.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PRINT WORK
Go on Celestial Adventures with Astro Dog at Electric Angel Gallery through a night photography and astrophotography exhibition. Learn more about photography yourself on a Photography Walk with Wandering Photography. Or head to the SeaGrown Centre at Vincent Pier to see an exhibition of their Artist of the Month.
VISUAL ART
A feast for the eyes as artists fill Scarborough with artwork in venues of all shapes and sizes. Exhibitions will feature abstract paintings, mixed media work, landscapes, glass art, textiles, drawing, sculpture and much more.
With work based on diverse themes from social history and environmental sustainability to space and comic books, there will be something for everyone to enjoy and engage with.
For some of these exhibitions, artists are opening up their studios and in some cases their homes to give you a look inside the space where their creativity flourishes. Other venues include established galleries as well as new spaces opening for the first time this year.
- Abstract Paintings Exhibition
- Adam Bonas Art
- Art and War
- Artist-in-Residence
- Celestial Adventures
- Charlotte Hill at The House of Gaia
- Colourful Scarborough
- Colour Workshop
- The Condition
- Everything I Like
- Forest Garden Drawing Retreat
- Glass Art Workshops
- Heads and Bodies
- Held
- In Paint
- Janine Baldwin Open Studio
- Lynne Arnison Open Art Studio
- Mental Health Monsters
- The Old Parcels Office Collective Exhibition
- Open Studios
- Our Beloved Friends
- Photography Exhibition
- Pop Up Exhibition
- Power
- Rachel Welford Open Studio
- Sally Gatie Open Studio
- Scarborough Bogs Photo Installation
- Shirley Vauvelle Open Studio
- Snowy Mystique Art
- Sometimes I Feel So Happy, Sometimes I Feel So Sad
- S6F Creatives Exhibition
- Surface and Structure
- 35 Years In The Making – a Retrospective
- TOTEMS: A co-created, family friendly exhibition
- Villsau
- Visualizing World: A Dive into Concept Art
- Wendy Tate: Dislocation
- West Pier Open Studio
VISUAL ART
A feast for the eyes as artists fill Scarborough with artwork in venues of all shapes and sizes. Exhibitions will feature abstract paintings, mixed media work, landscapes, glass art, textiles, drawing, sculpture and much more.
With work based on diverse themes from social history and environmental sustainability to space and comic books, there will be something for everyone to enjoy and engage with.
For some of these exhibitions, artists are opening up their studios and in some cases their homes to give you a look inside the space where their creativity flourishes. Other venues include established galleries as well as new spaces opening for the first time this year.
