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Established in 1977, Yorkshire Artspace provides quality, affordable studio space for over 160 Sheffield-based artists and makers.

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Part three of our Sheffield trip last week: In the afternoon we visited the Contemporary British Painting Prize at @yartspace 🎨

Fifteen painters were shortlisted from over 1,200 applications from across the UK. It was an incredibly inspiring exhibition, and a great reminder of the strength of contemporary painting being made right now across the UK ✨

With work by:
@andrewbryant
@christophercookstudio
@gwenevanswork
@pippagattystudio
@mcj.gibson
@caroline_gorickpainting
@melguatelli
@chrishanlonartist
@jinyongparkstudio
@bend_laser
@katyshepherdart
@artbyrobertsherratt
@michelleussher
@haijiewang99
@katewilsonarts

It was great to have our painter friends @maxcharles_art, @joekineywhitmore and @marco.frezza.art along for the visit too.

The show has now finished at YAS and moves to London next.

If you’re down in London it’s at @thamessidestudiosse18, Harrington Way, SE18 5NR, 5-15 November, Thursday to Sunday, 12-5pm. Free entry, disabled access and free parking. Preview night is Thursday 5th November, 6-9pm!

We’re also really looking forward to Gwen’s show at YAS in the spring 🙌

Did you get to visit the CBP Prize while it was in Sheffield? 🎨

#sheffield #contemporaryart #emergingartists #northwest #exhibition @rebeccagarrard8 @bforbarbosa @aliya.farakh

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I've set up shop in Sheffield (if you haven't heard already) and the studio space (@yartspace ) I'm in is having their annual open studios. Over 100 artist across two buildings, opening their doors to their studios and inviting you in! If you're around, come visit me :)

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Fancy a nosey around some of Sheffield’s most creative spaces? 🎨

@yartspace’s annual Open Studios weekend returns on 21 & 22 November, with more than 100 artists and makers opening their doors at Persistence Works and Exchange Place.

From painting and ceramics to jewellery, printmaking and contemporary art, it’s a rare chance to peek behind the scenes, see works in progress, chat to the people making them and even pick up something special directly from the artists.

Ahead of the weekend, we caught up with four resident artists – @contour_map_collection, @evelyna86, @liannemellor and @roannawells – to find out what they’re working on and what visitors can expect when they step inside.

🔗 Head to the link in bio for the full interviews and a closer look inside their studios.

📸 @howiehowe, @owenrichards, @lal.moons & @george.baggaley.pottery

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Cryptid, 2026; chicken wire, fishing line, dark-edged bee flies (known for mimicking bees) which died naturally during the course of the residency, wood, gifted pampas grass non-native to UK.

As part of Le Jardin des Muses at @yartspace (YAS Testing Ground Residency 2026)
Photo: @jamesklclarkson

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Bedtime Lullabies and Other Tall Stories.
7.30pm SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7th 2026.
The Samuel Worth Chapel, Sheffield.
Tickets £12 plus booking fee.
LINK IN BIO. LINK IN BIO. LINK IN BIO.

“Like doom scrolling through X on acid”.

“A mature work of tessellated Juvenalian apocalyptic hope”.

“Well that was fuckety fuck fuck fab. Just great work”.

“ACE. Looks a bit like the old video game DOOM! Insane”.

“Choose Your Fighter! A powerful piece indeed! It was a rollicking good performance Brother!”.

“Dada is dead, long live Dada”.

“I don’t know who looks more exhausted Stephen, you or the audience!”.

Dada / Ubu Roi / Karaoke / etc…
Theatre. Play. Cheap props. Face paint and masks. Bad suits. Awful ties.
Ear to the ground. Face the front. Don’t piss into the wind.
Let’s see where this goes shall we?

Perhaps we are always ‘in character’…
“One can show one’s contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one’s life a poem of incoherence and absurdity. That’s a beautiful speech, but nobody’s listening. Let’s go”.
Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi.

Are you sitting comfortably, then I’ll begin…

Part of an evening of performance, film, sound, music, and more.
With exciting sets from Lou Barnell and Teddy Hunter on the night.

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OMG life is bonkers 😜 just got an arts council grant for an exhibition-
The Art of Resilience- from the furnace
to the flow 🔥💫💙🧡

I process life through creativity
Songs, poems, thinking spirals, solutions, collage, photography, mixed media and performance arts

My primary focus has been music for decades
Songs as catharsis and mirrors -
So when the recent throat cancer stole my voice - the very thing I relied on to process the hard stuff in life - 🎤
My creativity sought other estuaries - cos flow it must 🦋

I surprised myself as a body of work emerged from one of the toughest times of my life - voiceless
I found other voices
And
Other voices found me

I’m now honing, curating, finishing, sculpting, recording, engaging with other brilliant artists to create prepare an installation @yartspace in December

I’ll be obsessed with this for the next few months
🌀🌀🌀🌀
Let the unraveling begin 🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙

💋#emergingartist
#creativehealing #performanceartist #collagecollectiveco
#emergingartists

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Thanks to @expmagsheff for this lovely reminder of the CBP prize opening and great to hear some words from Georgina Kettlewell, director @yartspace and one of our judges, alongside Gwen Evans @gwenevanswork , winner of this year's YAS exhibition award.

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🐘 Events of the Month: there’s so much going on in October and plenty of reasons to get out and about in the city. Here are four solid picks:
🐘 A literary festival
🐘 An art exhibition
🐘A beer and cider festival
🐘 A multi medium music, film and digital festival

Read here: www.sheffherd.co.uk
Featuring: @offtheshelffestival @yartspace @sheffbeerfest @sensoriafest

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@yartspace on Brown St in Sheffield City Centre is currently home to the works of 15 of the most exciting artists working in the UK right now.

YAS is committed to champion both established and emerging artists, which you can see in this exhibition open Thursday - Saturday until 17th October.

Be sure to head down and have a gander, and see if you can spot the work of YAS Exhibition Award winner @gwenevanswork 🫟🎨🖌️

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Coming up this autumn I'm collaborating with @carley.stephen to create an art piece for a floating exhibition called ‘Olive Oyl’ on the boat ‘Popeye’ which will depart from Redhill Marina and cruise into Nottingham from the 23rd of October-more details to come.

To raise funds to cover the costs of the boat hire, exhibiting artists have created a collection of prints for sale. Printed by @untitled.print.studio Matthew Conduit, a specialist in Fine Art printing at @yartspace They are A3 size and are on sale now for £72 each (including p&p or delivery). If you’d like a print, please DM @jennysutton99

Images as follows.

1. Jenny Sutton Popeye @jennysutton99

2. and 3 Will Greenwood Untitled i and ii Will made a blimp, shown here, which will be floating above the boat for our trip

4. Ava Ord and Jim Ever Symbiotic Chamber: @ag.ord @primordialfilth @jimeverstudio

5. Jenny Sutton Honey I’m Home @jennysutton99

6. Jenny Sutton Field of Dreams @jennysutton99

7. Jack Mackness Bempton Cliffs

8. Mia Colman (image Jim Ever) Offering: @miacolmanarchive @primordialfilth

9. Ruth Heaton White Lotus @rutheheaton

10. Kate Jacob Sometimes @k8jacob1

11. Kate Jacob Tingaling @k8jacob1

12. Stephen Carley Raft - Popeye meets Guy Debord @carley.stephen

You can also find us on crowdfunder uk just search 'exhibition on a boat'. Prints can be ordered through this site (look at the rewards section) as well as directly through Jenny. If you feel able, it is also possible to donate to support the project through crowdfunder.

My two paintings featured here are also available for sale and I will be donating a percentage of the sales price to the exhibition, please DM me for more information.

Painting 1 (image 2)
Sometimes.
Acrylic and water on stretched canvas. 76x76cm 2025. £1600

Painting 2 (image 3)
Tingaling.
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas board. 20x20cm. 2025. £325

Thanks to Jenny Sutton @jennysutton99 for instigating, organising and inviting me to be part of this exciting adventure.

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Ahhh, a long train journey and finally time to reflect on the opening of the Contemporary British Painting Prize at Yorkshire Artspace last weekend @paintbritain @yartspace

As always, wonderful, warm and special. And a beautifully selected exhibition (by iainandrewsart @danielhbell_artist @rachel__lancaster & @emmatod1 ), elegantly curated by Grant Scanlan @huddersfieldartgallery which must have made for a very difficult judging process by the lovely Georgina Kettlewell (Director at YAS), @ryanmosley01 & @katherine__lloyd & the judges for the Judith Tucker Memorial Prize, Harriet Tarlo, @hannahbrownartist and Griselda Pollock. So lovely to see and spend time with you all. And the rest of the YAS team Rachael Dodd & @tylermellins . CBP love working with YAS 🫶

Congratulations to the winners too. All very well deserved.

CBP Prize 2026 WInner, @bend_laser
Highly Commended Winner, @christophercookstudio
Judith Tucker Memorial Prize Winner,@pippagattystudio
Judith Tucker Memorial Second Prize winner, @melguatelli
YAS Exhibition Award @gwenevanswork

And finally to say, it was very special to spend time with @narbiprice and @paulamacarthur_ We are usually just bouncing around zoom calls and falling between emails. Paula & @philillingworth make the prize the wonderful thing it is. We missed Phil & @nataliedowse at the opening this year but his presence on WhatsApp pulled us all through the looking glass. And also lovely to see so many CBP members and friends and colleagues at the opening.

It was all love in the room and a sunny and stormy day which felt like spring with battering rain and the clouds sweeping across the sky like a paragraph in a William Golding novel ( I think it was Freefall)
which has stayed with me since adolescence when I lived in the desert and a spring day was unimaginable and exotic and he described it so profoundly. The sharp strange sorrow of it. I digress. Back to the point....

Love you CBP! 💚💚💚

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Wow, well nearly a week since we launched and awarded the CBP prize and we just wanted to say all of our thankyous for such a wonderful day…so here goes!

Thank you to our hosts and the whole team at Yorkshire Art Space @yartspace (especially Georgina Kettlewell, Rachael Dodd & Tyler Mellins) & to our curator Grant Scanlan and all the Huddersfield Curates team @huddersfieldartgallery, and to James O’Hara @jamesohara_again for welcoming us @pearlatparkhill

Thanks to Anna Kiff & Nicola Togneri from the Estate of Ken Kiff @ken.kiff_estate who funded this year’s prize: 'in the name of this late 20th century British painter who taught generations of painters in his roles at the Royal College of Art and Chelsea School of Art between 1964-1990. When asked about his own working practice he said, “ What is anyone's strategy, but finding their way, through their own impulses, and through what they love?” This innate understanding of what drives people to paint seems to encapsulate the work of the shortlisted artists who are finding their way, through their own impulses and doing what they love." The quality of their work is the highest standard and we hope that Ken would have enjoyed this important initiative.' (Estate of Ken Kiff)

Thanks to the prize judges: Georgina Kettlewell (Director at YAS), @ryanmosley01 & @katherine__lloyd and to selectors @iainandrewsart @danielhbell_artist @rachel__lancaster & @emmatod1 who stepped up to the challenge of choosing this show from over 6000 paintings by 1200 artists. And the judges for the Judith Tucker Memorial Prize: Harriet Tarlo, @hannahbrownartist and Griselda Pollock.

Thanks to everyone who sent in their work! As always there were so many wonderful paintings. Thanks to everyone behind the scenes at CBP, especially to the wonderful Paula MacArthur @paulamacarthur_ who incredibly pulls the whole prize and exhibitions together with the great support of Phil Illingworth @philillingworth who keeps everything on track with the submissions and catalogues and much, much more.

Thanks and congratulations to all the exhibitors who make the prize and exhibition possible!

#paintbritiain #contemporaraybritishpaintin

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