Art and Design Venues

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Leeds City Art Gallery
Leeds City Art Gallery
The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AA
Tel. 0113 247 8248
www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery

Leeds City Art Gallery has an internationally acclaimed collection of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. Regularly holds exhibitions and there are opportunities for local artists to display their work. The Henry Moore Institute adjoins the gallery and offers opportunities to study contemporary sculpture. The Craft Centre and Design Gallery (situated in the same complex) exhibits a wide range of crafts including ceramics, fabrics and jewellery. Artists on display include: Henry Moore; Graham Sutherland; Paula Rego; Barbara Hepworth; August Rodin

Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton
Wakefield
WF4 4LG,
Tel. 01924 832631
www.ysp.co.uk

An international centre for modern and contemporary sculpture set in 500 acres of parkland. Exhibitions change regularly but there always at least 40 sculptures on display. Artists include: Barbara Hepworth; Henry Moore; Elizabeth Frink; Eduardo Paolozzi: Rachel Whiteread

The Colour Museum
The Society of Dyers and Colourists Museum
Perkin House
82 Grattan Road
Bradford
BD1 2JB
Tel: 01274 390955
www.sdc.org.uk/museum

Offers interactive galleries, special exhibitions and workshops about all aspects of colour. The Colour and Textiles gallery explores dyeing and textile printing from ancient Egypt to the present day.

Salts Mill
Salts Mill
Saltaire
West Yorkshire
BD18 3LB
Tel: 01274 531185
www.saltsmill.org.uk

This mill building in a model village built by Victorian philanthropist Titus Salt now houses the world's largest collection of work by David Hockney. The 1853 Gallery showcases his art from early drawings to recent paintings, The 2nd Gallery includes photographs and multi fax pictures, and the Stages Exhibition houses opera sets, costume designs, paintings and drawings. There are a number of shops and restaurants in the building, some of which have good examples of contemporary design in home furnishings.

Bankfield Museum
Bankfield Museum
Akroyd Park
Boothtown Road
Halifax
HX3 6HG
Telephone: 01422 354823
www.calderdale.gov.uk

Set in the former home of Edward Akroyd, the largest wool manufacturer in Britain. this centre for contemporary craft has an internationally important collection of textiles and costumes. Exhibits include a Diaghilev ballet costume and Igbo masquerade dress; embroideries from India and China; woven cloth from Africa and Burma, and a unique collection of textiles from Eastern Europe collected between 1900 and 1914.

Wakefield Art Gallery
Wakefield Art Gallery
Wentworth Terrace
Wakefield,
WF1 3QW
Tel: 01924 305 796
www.wakefield.gov.uk

Wakefield Art Gallery has a permanent collection of paintings and sculptures and features regular temporary exhibitions by up-and-coming Leeds' artists. Artists on display include: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and David Hockney.

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Lister Park
Bradford
BD9 4NS
Telephone 01274 431212
www.bradfordmuseums.org

Cartwright Hall is Bradford's civic art gallery and offers an exciting programme of contemporary exhibitions, with four permanent galleries displaying works from our art collections. The collections consist mainly of 19th and 20th century British art, with strong collections of international contemporary prints and contemporary South Asian art and crafts.

Harewood House
Harewood House
Harewood
Leeds
LS17 9LG
Tel: 0113 218 1010
www.harewood.org

A stately home belonging to a cousin of the Queen, Harewood House has a fine art collection and regularly features exhibitions of contemporary arts and crafts.

National Museum of Photography, Film & Television
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD1 1NQ
Tel: 0870 70 10 200
www.nmpft.org.uk

The Museum's renowned collection includes more than three million items of historical, social and cultural value, became the most visited national museum outside London, attracting an average of 700,000 visitors each year.

Bagshaw Museum
Bagshaw Museum
Wilton Park
Batley
West Yorkshire,
WF17 0AS
Tel: 01924 326155
www.aboutbritain.com

The Victorian home of a local mill-owning family, Bagshaw Museum has artefacts from around the world including Egypt, South Africa, South Asia and India. Many of these were collected by Violet Bagshaw, who continued to travel the world until she was 100 years old. The Fabric of Batley gallery looks at local history through the mills, mansions and terraces of the local area.

Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock
Liverpool
L3 4BB
Telephone: 0151 702 7400
www.tate.org.uk

Tate Liverpool opened in 1988 to share the Tate Collection with the North of England. It displays selections of international modern art and also mounts innovative themed displays that are changed regularly. The entire Tate collection is available online.

Temple Newsam
Temple Newsam
Temple Newsam Rd
Leeds, LS15 0AE
Tel : 0113 264 7321
www.leeds.gov.uk/templenewsam

Temple Newsam has one of the finest publicly owned collections of English decorative art outside London. Over thirty interiors display paintings, furniture including masterpieces by Chippendale; textiles, silver, porcelain, and Leeds pottery. It regularly holds special exhibitions related to arts, crafts and textiles.

Leeds Met Gallery
Leeds Met Gallery
City Campus
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds, LS1 3HE
Tel: 0113 282 3140
www.lmu.ac.uk/arts

Showcases work by new artists, including photography. Exhibitions change regularly.

Blackwell Arts and Crafts House
Blackwell Arts and Crafts House
Bowness-on-Windermere
Cumbria
LA23 3JT
Tel: 015394 46139
www.blackwell.org.uk

Blackwell was designed by Arts and Crafts architect M H Baillie Scott as a holiday home for Sir Edward Holt, a brewer from Manchester. Completed in 1900, it stands at the crossroads of Victorian design and 20th century architecture. Much of the original interior decoration has survived intact and been preserved to combine distinctive architecture, craft and the applied arts. There are good examples of furniture, carving and woodwork, tiling, fabrics and paintings.

Bradford Sculpture Trail
City Centre Management
4th Floor Olicana House
35 Chapel Street
Bradford
BD1 5RE
Tel: 01274 433763
www.bradford.gov.uk

A booklet gives details of a walking tour across Bradford that takes in a range of sculpture including traditional statues and contemporary installations. Of particular note are: Questor, a steel sculpture by Keith McCarter; camera Lucida, a series of glass panels by Tim Head; Connecting the City (or The Needle) by Rick Faulkner; Poertry and Film Benches - street furniture inscribed with poetry by local schoolchildren, and Fibres by Ian Randall.

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