Haworth, West Yorkshire
Bradford will be the UK City of Culture in 2025. Wild Uplands, part of this year-long celebration, includes four new installations that are located on the moors 10 miles west of Bradford’s central area. Meherunnisa asad created pink marble butterflies. Steve Messam’s 10-metre-tall tower made of locally quarried rock looks out at heather purple hills. These works are scattered throughout the abandoned quarries in Penistone Hill and country park. family-friendly guide Charts a route to all four. While wandering over the moors, you can tune into a geolocated immersive soundscape, Earth & Sky, which includes music by Bradford-born composer Frederick Delius. The Brontë Bus from Hebden Bridge via Keighley stops three times an hour in Haworth, and it’s then a 15-minute stroll past the Parsonage Penistone Hill. Haworth’s steep cobbled Main Street has pubs and cafés like the Writers’ BlocIt opened in November of 2024. Cream tea is served inside a hollowed out book. At the end of the street. Haworth Old Hall Choose from a range of locally distilled Gins.
On 12 October, bradford2025.co.uk
Folkestone (Kent)
The 2025 Folkestone Triennial features new site-specific pieces by artists around the globe. The 2025 Folkestone Triennial is open every day until the 19th of October and it’s free. You can use the map to choose your own route. digital guide. Katie Paterson has spent years creating her extraordinary project Afterlife in an old Martello Tower. She has fashioned 197 amulets from matter embodying the harm caused by the climate crisis: fragments of charred wood from burnt forests, stones from islands menaced by rising seas … Walk past Jennifer Tee’s Oceans Tree of Life, a seaweed sculpture of brick and fused sea glass built into the grassy clifftop, to reach Sara Trillo’s chalky Urn Field. Red Erratic, by Dorothy Cross is a block of red Syrian Marble carved with feet. Stop at Herbert’s For an ice cream, Emeka Ogboh designed a lolly which tastes like lemon cheesecake. It can be dipped into a coating that is slightly spicy and salty. Ode to the Channel, Ogboh’s choral sound-installation, is just a short walk from Sunny Sands Beach. You can enjoy your ice cream and music while sitting on the steps.
On 19 October, creativefolkestone.org.uk
Newquay in Cornwall
Newquay is awash with new murals. There are colourful seaside abstracts, bouncing beachballs, a fisher mending nets by candlelight … Bus 56 from Newquay runs hourly up to Porth, where local artist Phil Strugnell has painted a big, colourful mural on the side of the SeaSpace aparthotel. You can also access the sea from here. follow the coast path back to Newquay You can walk for several miles. To reach the town, you’ll have to walk past Lusty Glaze Beach and Towan Beach. Then through the Barrowfields ancient burial ground. You can walk past the new murals with QR codes that will give you information about the artist. Then, end your stroll near Elle Koziupa’s chiaroscuro fisher Sainsburys, opposite.
Muqy Street Art Trail, ovenqy.co.uk
Stoke-on-Trent is in Staffordshire
The British Ceramics Biennial at Stoke-on-Trent will run until late October. In the Spode Works in Stoke-on-Trent, an historic ceramics factory, more than 60 artists are involved with films, events, and exhibitions, including comedian Johnny Vegas. Regular trains run from Crewe and London Euston. A bronze Josiah Wedgwood holds a copy the Portland Vase in the hand of a bronze Josiah Wedgwood, which stands outside the station. Spode’s old factory, storerooms, and galleries are a maze. Playscape, a clay-scrap playground, is one of the new commissions. Josie KO celebrates Black women in Stoke by creating a bottle kiln goddess. After you’ve explored Spode Works, check out the new Living Heritage trailSpode is the first to launch a new. At the, you can find deep-filled sarnies as well as Staffordshire oatcakes. QuarterThe Little Vintage Tea Room is located at Spode Museum The cafe features homemade cakes as well as a mosaic counter by Philip Hardaker. It was inspired by Spode’s Italian blue ceramics.
On 19 October, britishceramicsbiennial.com
Wolterton, Norfolk
Wolterton Hall, with its 200-hectare estate (500 acres), has been closed for decades. Book a free online ticket to the new art and cultural programme and you can explore the Palladian home and grounds between 11am and 4pm on Wednesdays and Sundays. Sea State includes works by Maggi Robertson and Maggi Hambling that are inspired by the North Sea. The exhibition is held in the Marble hall. Hambling’s tribute to Tory her 40-year partner is on display in the old Portrait Room. The art trail is more like a walk through a park or an indoor exhibition. But both are very beautiful. Wolterton has maps with different routes that take you around the ponds and lake. You can also see the heronry, and the round-towered ruined church. You can find more great walks at nearby Mannington. Norfolk-based baker Bread Source Wolterton Hall library has cafes. at Mannington You can also serve cakes, drinks and giant flaky croissants.
Sea State runs 7 December, wolterton.co.uk
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Westminster, London
Interviews with models and artists are included in the new book London Statues of Women by journalist Juliet Rix. The book covers the obvious monuments such as Queen Victoria in Kensington Palace and Millicent Fauxte on Parliament Square. You can also see Joan Littlewood, a pioneering director, outside the Theatre Royal Stratford or Amy Winehouse at Camden Market. The book features three statue safaris in Westminster, Bloomsbury, and the City. The Westminster route includes a bronze statue of Anna Pavlova dancing on the top of Victoria Palace and ends in Waterloo, near Basil Watson’s National Windrush Monument. Mary and Etienne millner’s bronze statue of visionary mathematician Ada Lovelace is located on Horseferry Road, with gold computer punch cards. Mary Seacole can be found in the riverside gardens by St Thomas’s hospital.
London Statues of Women The following is published Safe Haven Books
Wrexham, Clwyd
Wrexham is preparing to bid for the UK City of Culture title in 2029. A new public arts trail will be part of that effort. Liam Stokes Massey is the local artist who coordinated the art trail. It currently includes 14 pieces and the city plans to launch a second phase in the autumn. Stokes-Massey pays tribute to Wrexham Football Club manager Phil Parkinson with The Boss, and several other football-themed pieces. Other works celebrate the city’s industrial heritage. Josh Colwell’s monochrome canary caged miner is one example. Rachel West (AKA The Art Bunny) pays homage to Wrexham’s markets where both her mother and grandfather worked. You can use the map to plan your route around the murals. Tŷ Pawb The food court and market gallery has pies made by the Pie’d Pie’per, homemade curry and more.
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