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april
Artist Denise Oukhaba presents her solo exhibition.
A mixed media collection of works developed over the past seven years celebrating the discovery and exploration of Lepton Great Woods my happy place.
Housing development is literally chomping at the edges right now, pushing back the wildlife and stilling its once carefree existence. Once again mans ill considered needs and overriding greed for maximum profit (using green belt over Brown field sites), seriously threatens another local haven of nature and in turn our own physical and mental health.
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We invite you to see 'Where are you from originally?', an exhibition exploring race, identity, belonging and heritage.
Opening: Friday 3rd April 2026
Last date to view : Sunday 31st May 2026
‘Where are you from originally?’ takes its title from a question that is often framed as casual curiosity, yet carries the weight of assumption, belonging, and exclusion.
For many, it is a question that refuses a simple answer. The artists in this exhibition respond not by offering fixed origins, but by revealing identity as layered, shifting, and deeply personal. Here, identity is explored through race, religion, language, memory, and lived experience. Some artists draw on ancestral histories and inherited traditions; others examine migration and the spaces between cultures. Heritage appears not as a single point of origin, but as something negotiated, shaped by family stories, faith practices, and colonial histories.
‘Where are you from originally?’ invites viewers to reflect on how questions of origin are asked, and who is expected to answer them. Who gets to belong without explanation, and who is repeatedly asked to justify their presence? Through textiles, sculpture, photography, moving image, and painting, the artists explore their relationship to this question and its significance to their own identities.
Curator Domino Panton-Oakley assembles Yorkshire-based artists of mixed global identities, all of which use identity as a theme in their work. Featuring Penny Moe, Saira Baig, and including newly commissioned and never-before-seen work by Shaun Connell, Saba Siddiqui and Hijab Zainab, rather than resolving the question “where are you from originally?”, the artists ask us to listen more closely, to sit with complexity, and to recognise that identity is not a destination but an ongoing process.
Please also take with you a ‘Where are you from originally?’ zine, developed by artist and facilitator Mussarat Rahman, and designed by Kelvin Chan. The zine includes responses from those who have experienced this question, had their identity questioned, or questioned their own identity. It includes honest responses to the questions and offers new insights into the exploration of identity.
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Plenty at the Square
Running: Friday 3rd April 2026 February - 24th May 2026
Caroline is an artist based in Bingley known for her captivating detailed drawings of local townscapes.
Inspired by her surroundings, she is drawn to, and loves to draw, the unique architecture and landmarks that shape the places around her. She likes to capture the contrast between old and new buildings that tell a story about a town’s history and its current day life.
Before beginning a drawing Caroline visits each place and takes her own photographs, this way she can identify key features and get close ups or different angles of anything that interests her. Then using these images as reference she drafts each composition in pencil before filling in the details freehand in black pen to form her unique townscapes.
Exploring this style she has built up a collection of drawings featuring towns across Bradford and Yorkshire.
See more of her work at:
Join Domino Panton-Oakley, the Curator and Programme and Gallery Manager of South Square, for a tour of Where are you from originally? This exhibition invites viewers to reflect on how questions of origin are asked, and who is expected to answer them. Who gets to belong without explanation, and who is repeatedly asked to justify their presence? Through textiles, sculpture, photography, moving image, and painting, the artists explore their relationship to this question and its significance to their own identities.
Where are you from originally? is a personal exhibition project for curator Domino, as she too has been asked this question many times. You'll explore the exhibition, learn more about the artists and artworks featured and hear from Domino about how this exhibition came together.
‘Where are you from originally?’ takes its title from a question that is often framed as casual curiosity, yet carries the weight of assumption, belonging, and exclusion.
For many, it is a question that refuses a simple answer. The artists in this exhibition respond not by offering fixed origins, but by revealing identity as layered, shifting, and deeply personal. Here, identity is explored through race, religion, language, memory, and lived experience. Some artists draw on ancestral histories and inherited traditions; others examine migration and the spaces between cultures. Heritage appears not as a single point of origin, but as something negotiated, shaped by family stories, faith practices, and colonial histories.
Featuring Yorkshire-based artists of mixed global identities, all of which use identity as a theme in their work; Penny Moe, Saira Baig, and including newly commissioned and never-before-seen work by Shaun Connell, Saba Siddiqui and Hijab Zainab , rather than resolving the question “where are you from originally?”, the artists ask us to listen more closely, to sit with complexity, and to recognise that identity is not a destination but an ongoing process.
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We invite you to see 'Where are you from originally?', an exhibition exploring race, identity, belonging and heritage.
Opening: Friday 3rd April 2026
Last date to view : Sunday 31st May 2026
‘Where are you from originally?’ takes its title from a question that is often framed as casual curiosity, yet carries the weight of assumption, belonging, and exclusion.
For many, it is a question that refuses a simple answer. The artists in this exhibition respond not by offering fixed origins, but by revealing identity as layered, shifting, and deeply personal. Here, identity is explored through race, religion, language, memory, and lived experience. Some artists draw on ancestral histories and inherited traditions; others examine migration and the spaces between cultures. Heritage appears not as a single point of origin, but as something negotiated, shaped by family stories, faith practices, and colonial histories.
‘Where are you from originally?’ invites viewers to reflect on how questions of origin are asked, and who is expected to answer them. Who gets to belong without explanation, and who is repeatedly asked to justify their presence? Through textiles, sculpture, photography, moving image, and painting, the artists explore their relationship to this question and its significance to their own identities.
Curator Domino Panton-Oakley assembles Yorkshire-based artists of mixed global identities, all of which use identity as a theme in their work. Featuring Penny Moe, Saira Baig, and including newly commissioned and never-before-seen work by Shaun Connell, Saba Siddiqui and Hijab Zainab, rather than resolving the question “where are you from originally?”, the artists ask us to listen more closely, to sit with complexity, and to recognise that identity is not a destination but an ongoing process.
Please also take with you a ‘Where are you from originally?’ zine, developed by artist and facilitator Mussarat Rahman, and designed by Kelvin Chan. The zine includes responses from those who have experienced this question, had their identity questioned, or questioned their own identity. It includes honest responses to the questions and offers new insights into the exploration of identity.
","eventStatus":"https://schema.org/EventScheduled"}Plenty at the Square
Running: Friday 3rd April 2026 February - 24th May 2026
Caroline is an artist based in Bingley known for her captivating detailed drawings of local townscapes.
Inspired by her surroundings, she is drawn to, and loves to draw, the unique architecture and landmarks that shape the places around her. She likes to capture the contrast between old and new buildings that tell a story about a town’s history and its current day life.
Before beginning a drawing Caroline visits each place and takes her own photographs, this way she can identify key features and get close ups or different angles of anything that interests her. Then using these images as reference she drafts each composition in pencil before filling in the details freehand in black pen to form her unique townscapes.
Exploring this style she has built up a collection of drawings featuring towns across Bradford and Yorkshire.
See more of her work at:
Solo exhibition of paintings by John Allcock
Compelled by bad weather to take a break from a climbing trip in northern Spain, John
Allcock came across a group of ancient hermitages in the hills above Potes. Fascinated by
the idea of the hermit’s withdrawal from the secular world, he gathered reference material
which became a series of paintings on his return to the UK. The result is this series of
fourteen images in mixed media.
09may(may 9)10:00 am30(may 30)3:00 pmSet ApartSolo exhibition of paintings by John Allcock
june
Come down for the highly awaited Year 10 Art show at Beckfoot Thornton school!
Students from year 10 art classes at Beckfoot Thornton have been working on a variety of different projects this year.
For this show, students have expressed themselves through three different themes; Recyclable, Abstract, and Monument.
With the chance to do anything desired to respond to chosen themes, students have created work in a variety of ways. Please explore our sculptures, paintings and many more.
Please feel free to sign the visitors book to let us know what you think!
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Join us for the launch of the South Square Centre Collage Club Exhibition!
South Square Collage Club emerged from an online collage workshop during a socially restricted Covid period in May 2021 for World Collage Day. People all over the world joined in supported by remote hosts in South Square Centre and Exeter.. The local participants decided to continue in person once that was possible. Four years later there's a lively evolving group who gather monthly in South Square Centre on a Saturday morning. The participants include people who are new to making art and people who have spent their lives creating. There's usually a theme linked to our interests but following it is entirely optional. There's a big selection of resources and a huge welcome to all.
This exhibition at Plenty of the Square includes a wonderful mix of the work the club have been creating over the past few weeks.
Last dater to view is Sunday 12th July.
Friday 5th June, 6pm – 9pm Join us for the launch of the South Square Centre Collage
Join us for the launch of the South Square Centre Collage Club Exhibition!
South Square Collage Club emerged from an online collage workshop during a socially restricted Covid period in May 2021 for World Collage Day. People all over the world joined in supported by remote hosts in South Square Centre and Exeter.. The local participants decided to continue in person once that was possible. Four years later there’s a lively evolving group who gather monthly in South Square Centre on a Saturday morning. The participants include people who are new to making art and people who have spent their lives creating. There’s usually a theme linked to our interests but following it is entirely optional. There’s a big selection of resources and a huge welcome to all.
This exhibition at Plenty of the Square includes a wonderful mix of the work the club have been creating over the past few weeks.
Last dater to view is Sunday 12th July.
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Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June 2026
The third Thornton Art Trail takes place over the weekend of 6 - 7th June 2026. Visitors will find a huge variety of art and activities in a range of venues. There’s art in private houses, workshops in galleries, open studios, open-air art demonstrations and much more. The trail can be started at any point. The total distance of a circuit is around a mile.
Find out more about the whole event here: THORNTON ART TRAIL
What are South Square doing at Thornton Art Trail?
Open Studios //
Many of the artists and creators onsite at South Square will have an open doors to their studios. Come in, take a look at their work, chat directly to the artists, and see their creative spaces.
Costing The Earth - Curators Talk with Jane Hiley //
Join curator Jane Hiley in discussing the exhibition in the Main Gallery, Costing The Earth.
Times TBC
Art Doctors //
The Art Doctors think creativity can be good for you. They playfully break down barriers to participation in the arts and explore the positive role of creativity in all our lives.
Through playful conversation and consultation, they prescribe art works and creative activities that might make you feel better, help you to navigate the challenges of creative endeavour, and feel more confident talking about contemporary art.
They'll be in and around South Square, helping all you patients in need of some art medicine!
Times TBC confirmed
Charlotte Brontë - Senseless Trash tour //
Join Charlotte Brontë on a phonic field trip from the Birth Place, past South Square, and around Thornton and listen in to the sounds that shaped the Brontë sisters’ lives (Charlotte, Emily and the other one, Anne?)
The howling Yorkshire winds, the tranquil trickling of nearby waterfalls (there must be one somewhere) and the angelic tones of, Beyoncé… will accompany you on your journey. Senseless Trash from beginning to end – don’t say we didn’t warn you. Oh, and keep your wits about you, for there are beasts on those moors…
N.B. Charlotte Brontë: Senseless Trash is a 30-minute show suitable for audiences aged 14+. Places are limited, and attendees must be present for the duration of the show.
Times and location of start point TBC
Drop in Art Workshop //
Join Artist Allanah Rhodes to unleash your creativity in a photography based workshop. It's time to get making! Come along for a drop-in session of inspiration and skill building based on the village of Thornton. You can chose between doing a cyanotype workshop, using the images provided, or colouring sheets for the littler ones, or mono printing using oil pastels. Come along and have a go, all free!
Open from 11am - 3pm
Performance by Philip Codd - In The Stone Tree Shadows //
Philip Codd is a filmmaker and composer. As a composer he works with any combination of instruments and electronics, often creating audio works using musique concrète techniques in which short audio samples are edited and manipulated.
In The Stone Tree Shadows uses audio clips created by scanning Patrick Whitehead’s prints of Bradford mills. These clips are then mangled and modified to create a sonic landscape of differing textures, rhythms and sonorities, with elements of the piece suggesting Bradford’s industrial past. The work will be performed using live electronics and fed through a surround sound diffusion speaker system.
Performances are in the garden at the back of South Square at 11:30, 13:00 and 14:30 on Saturday 6th and 12:30 and 14:00 on Sunday 7th June. The piece is 20 minutes in duration.
To visit Philip's website click here
More details to be shared soon!
july
Come down for the highly awaited Year 10 Art show at Beckfoot Thornton school!
Students from year 10 art classes at Beckfoot Thornton have been working on a variety of different projects this year.
For this show, students have expressed themselves through three different themes; Recyclable, Abstract, and Monument.
With the chance to do anything desired to respond to chosen themes, students have created work in a variety of ways. Please explore our sculptures, paintings and many more.
Please feel free to sign the visitors book to let us know what you think!
","eventStatus":"https://schema.org/EventScheduled"}Join us for the launch of the South Square Centre Collage Club Exhibition!
South Square Collage Club emerged from an online collage workshop during a socially restricted Covid period in May 2021 for World Collage Day. People all over the world joined in supported by remote hosts in South Square Centre and Exeter.. The local participants decided to continue in person once that was possible. Four years later there's a lively evolving group who gather monthly in South Square Centre on a Saturday morning. The participants include people who are new to making art and people who have spent their lives creating. There's usually a theme linked to our interests but following it is entirely optional. There's a big selection of resources and a huge welcome to all.
This exhibition at Plenty of the Square includes a wonderful mix of the work the club have been creating over the past few weeks.
Last dater to view is Sunday 12th July.
Friday 5th June, 6pm – 9pm Join us for the launch of the South Square Centre Collage
Join us for the launch of the South Square Centre Collage Club Exhibition!
South Square Collage Club emerged from an online collage workshop during a socially restricted Covid period in May 2021 for World Collage Day. People all over the world joined in supported by remote hosts in South Square Centre and Exeter.. The local participants decided to continue in person once that was possible. Four years later there’s a lively evolving group who gather monthly in South Square Centre on a Saturday morning. The participants include people who are new to making art and people who have spent their lives creating. There’s usually a theme linked to our interests but following it is entirely optional. There’s a big selection of resources and a huge welcome to all.
This exhibition at Plenty of the Square includes a wonderful mix of the work the club have been creating over the past few weeks.
Last dater to view is Sunday 12th July.
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