Tuesday - Saturday
10-30am - 3pm
Sundays
12 - 3pm
Cafe
Tuesdays - Sunday
09.30am - 3.30pm
Wednesday - Fridays
From 4pm
Saturday & Sunday
From 3pm
01274 834747
Thornton Road, Bradford, BD13 3LD
Unit 9 are a local artist collective who coordinate and exhibit work for the meeting room space at South Square. Exhibitions change over every month and can include everything from photography and textiles to painting and print.
Artist and textile designer Diane Jones who works with devore and monoprinting techniques.
Patricia Calver is an artist and painter and is a longstanding South Square volunteer.
Life Education run the mobile classrooms across the Bradford district
Bradford Community Cinemas help places across the district host community film screenings
Alice Withers, is the Director of South Square. She was born in Manchester, now lives in Bradford. Alice is a member of art collective Reet So, Alice has undertaken commissions for Leeds Art Gallery and the Yorkshire Sculpture International festival developing site-specific responses to people and place. She worked as a freelance producer for UP Projects (London) managing The Floating Cinema and its touring programme for Hull City of Culture 2017.
Gemma is the Arts & Heritage Officer based at South Square as part of the wider Bradford 2025 project at Kala Sangam. She has worked in arts & heritage for many years, most recently as a freelancer on projects with the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation and AA2A. She first worked with Bradford Museums & Galleries in 2016 before working on NLHF projects with Thackray Museum of Medicine, Craven Museum and the Diocese of Salford. She is also an artist and lover of the outdoors, and she loves exploring the landscape with her sketchbook!
Domino is our Programme and Gallery Manager. She has over 10 years experience in the art events industry, and has run her own arts business and art gallery. She launched Cotton On MCR where she created exhibitions, workshops and art fairs in venues all across Greater Manchester to celebrate Manchester’s artists and art scene. She then opened up Neighbourhood Gallery, a gallery which aimed to encourage local people to be more involved in the arts. Domino moved to West Yorkshire in 2024 and enjoys being creative outside of work by doing ceramics, baking and learning Spanish.
Daniel is South Square Centre’s building manager, he’s been working for South Square for 3 years after volunteering with us. Daniel has lived in Thornton for 9 years and was brought up in Lower Grange. Daniel has been working in building management for over 10 years and enjoys drawing, furniture up cycling and watching his sons playing football on the weekends.
Jackie has been working as a cleaner at South Square since 2018. Keighley-born Jackie has been a Thorntonian since 1988 and started out in the textile industry, since then she has worked in automotive and vending industry before she took on cleaning 15 years ago. Jackie is a keen up-cycler and enjoys car boot sales and gardening.
Address: Thornton Road, Bradford, BD13 3LD
Phone: 01274 834747
Email: info@southsquarecentre.co.uk
South Square is a collection of 19th Century workers cottages, in the old Yorkshire village of Thornton, famous for its Brontë connections and its impressive 20-arch viaduct.
Renovated as a community arts centre in 1982, South Square Centre is now home to ten studio spaces for a variety of artists, as well as a gallery, community spaces, archive, fine art framers, bar and a cafe.
The centre hosts community events and activities for all ages, including an ongoing workshop programme and provides community spaces available to hire.
