Globe Gallery
Our Slaithwaite Globe Gallery hosts various exhibitions year-round, by local and emerging artists.
Jackie is passionate about curating accessible exhibitions, providing high quality visual arts for everyone within our community to enjoy.
Northern Illustrators: DRAW ME A STORY
12th October - 23rd November
Globe Arts Studio Gallery, Carr Lane, Slaithwaite
Draw me a Story is an exhibition showcasing the talent of six children's book illustrators living in the north of England. It celebrates the diversity of styles, mediums and processes used to create published works for children's literature, from picture books to graphic novels.
The talented artists of DRAW ME A STORY are Carly Gledhill, Neil Clark, Penny Neville-Lee, Anjan Sarkar, Holly Sterling and Lisa Stubbs.
Join us for the preview on Saturday 12th October, meet the marvellous artists and be the first to see the artwork of DRAW ME A STORY!
There will be something for everyone, with printed skateboard decks from Neil Clark - cool or what!?
Frances Noon: The world as I see it
3rd - 26th August
Globe Arts Studio Gallery, Carr Lane, Slaithwaite
Step in to Frances Noon’s world, as we host her new exhibition here at Globe Arts Studio Gallery, this August.
“The world as I see it”, features intricate art inspired by Frances’ everyday life. “A lot of the pieces feature houses/sheds/barns..... animals and birds....... It's my look at life around me, what stands out to me and what I like. My pieces usually exploit and manipulate scale. The childhood fascination of making houses for my dolls from shoe boxes has never dwindled, it has just become more sophisticated over time, but still gives me a sense of joy.”
Jackie Harrowsmith, Helen Balbontin, Beverley Kendall: Obsession
6th - 26th July
Globe Arts Studio Gallery, Carr Lane, Slaithwaite
This exhibition brings together 3 women who have dedicated much of their creative lives to encouraging others to find creativity and develop their skills across many disciplines of Fine Art and the Applied Arts. Facilitating others is rewarding, exhausting and obsessive.
Though we wouldn’t have it any other way, teaching and facilitating others often leaves little time for our own creative journey and development. Determined to break this cycle and begin to reap the benefits of exploring, making, failing, refining and exhibiting, we have thrown ourselves at Artweek. We have a commitment to each other to keep the creative journey moving from one Artweek to the next. Wherever we are in our making journey we promise to show and tell each year at this event. We hope at some stage to be able to say ‘works in this exhibition are for sale’.
Yukihiro Akama: Little Houses
4th May - 22nd June
Globe Arts Studio Gallery, Carr Lane, Slaithwaite
Working from a furniture maker’s workshop in Huddersfield, Akama is surrounded by the natural world. There, he creates these singular houses, carving each one from a single piece of wood. He draws on his experience as a joiner, through which he has refined his skills and techniques in woodworking. Each piece is given a unique appearance and takes between 3 hours and 3 days to complete. Akama has developed a method of colouring the wood using iron acetate solution. The solution is painted onto the wood which reacts with the tannins to create a beautiful ebonised finish.
The wood often dictates the starting point for the designs, with the knots or grain guiding where Akama cuts and carves. Gradually they take on the appearance of a house – often low and long, or tall with stilt-like legs and large roofs, sometimes cantilevered out. Delicate and intricate detailing of clay render and pebbles minimally decorate and enhance the surfaces, adding to the overall effect of how precarious man-made structures can be and the now transient and perilous nature of so many people’s lives. Inspiration comes from many sources for these fantastic creations, but much comes from Japanese temples and shrines and particularly from Jomon-era ruins; the shapes, textures and surfaces used in this period of 4,000 years ago.
Akama is an architectural technician by training, having studied architecture at Tohoku University of Art and Design, in Yamagata, Japan. When living in Japan, Akama designed a house for a plot of land he owned, rich in native Japanese trees with wild fruits and mushrooms. He aims to capture a sense of place in his work, creating houses that belong in woodland forest settings – quiet and rural. In 2011, he and his family moved to the UK, drawn to Yorkshire due to its landscape and natural surroundings. Here he has pursued an alternative lifestyle and career, responding to an overwhelming need to work with his hands as a maker. His first solo UK exhibition took place in 2013, and this is his second solo exhibition at YSP.
Information courtesy of YSP with the kind permission of Yukihiro Akama
Globe Arts Studio is very excited to present a series of Little Houses and drawings by Yukihiro Akama created especially for Globe Gallery.
Lisa Stubbs: ‘Ova roof tops
4th May - 22nd June
Globe Arts Studio Gallery, Carr Lane, Slaithwaite
'Ova roof tops is a new exhibition by the brilliant Lisa Stubbs, exploring the idea of ‘home’ and feelings of nostalgia in relation to a place where we hold domestic affections and a sense of belonging.
‘I have many influences which feed into and inform my work. I’m inspired by the journey to my studio through the scenic steep valleys which gives me a birds eye perspective of the landscape and a sense of its history and the homes embedded within it.
Join us on Saturday 4th May for our Print Day in May to celebrate Lisa’s exciting exhibition and this fun event, where everyone is welcome!
Contemporary British Painting
featuring
Oliver Lancaster
Emma Oughtibridge
Christian Niblo Lloyd
Tom Ratcliffe
Preview Friday 10th November, 6pm onwards
10th November - 10th January during Zapato’s opening times
This Winter our Globe Gallery heads over to Zapato Taproom for a group exhibition of Contemporary British Painting featuring Oliver Lancaster, Emma Oughtibridge, Christian Niblo Lloyd, and Tom Ratcliffe.
Zapato is just off the historical Huddersfield Narrow Canal between Slaithwaite and Marsden which you can reach in about 30 minute walk (ish) from our Globe Arts Studio.
Join us for the preview on Friday 10th November at 6pm, and enjoy everything the Taproom has to offer. With 7 keg lines and 2 cask of Zapato & guest beer, natural wine, plus specialty coffee and soft drinks, there is a drink for every thirsty mouth. Birria Bandits will be in the beer garden serving up great street food, 4.30 - 8.30pm, or until it’s all gone!
Annie Roche
Here, There, Nowhere
Running Saturday 23rd September – Saturday 21st October 2023 during our regular opening hours.
Meet the Artist on Saturday 23rd September at 2pm for Friends of Globe and the general public.
After 38 years of teaching Art, firstly at Honley High, then 32 at Greenhead College, I now have time to explore my own creativity, setting up a studio and enjoying my artistic journey. Still-life, Landscape, Abstract all cross over, compositions are not literal. Shapes are sometimes recognisable but also obtuse, to be re interpreted, my interest is often drawn to the spaces, lines and scribbles in between them. I play with a sense of near and far, stillness and movement, building up surfaces, textures and combining layers, serendipity, just seeing what happens. Geometric shapes create a sense of continuity, whilst fluid organic shapes connect me emotionally. Inspired by the seasons, panoramic landscapes but also small moments, such as a hopping bee. Colour is central, to my work, it is what makes my heart sing, brings me joy , a sense of optimism and hopefulness.
Mark Harrowsmith
The View From Home
Saturday 1st July – Saturday 29th July 2023
MEET THE ARTIST - Thursday 6th July, 5.30PM-7.30PM
If you haven’t already popped into Globe Arts Studio to view Mark Harrowsmith’s stunning photography exhibition “The View From Home”, make sure to come and have a look whilst it is still here!.
Mark Harrowsmith’s work is focussed on the gorgeous views of West Yorkshire, taken early on his daily walk. His walks coincide with the speeding up and slowing down of sunrise and these far reaching views contemplate questions around renewable energies
We are delighted to present ‘The View From Home’ this Summer in our studio space.
Pippa Ashworth
Sunny Spells & Occasional Rain
Saturday 27th May – Saturday 24th June 2023
MEET THE ARTIST - SATURDAY 10TH JUNE, 11AM-2PM
Sunny Spells and Occasional Rain by Pippa Ashworth explores the Yorkshire landscape through colour and textures using watercolour, acrylic paint and mixed media to create marks both accidental and deliberate.
As part of Pippa’s creative process she visually records the landscape whilst on walks in nature. Sketchbooks underpin all aspects of the journey, and provide the starting point for things to come.
We are delighted to present ‘Sunny Spells and Occasional Rain’ this Spring in our studio space. Pippa is a local artist who tutors here at Globe throughout the year, her painting and mixed media course and one off workshops sell out instantly!
Nicola Perren
Textiles, Drawing & Making
Saturday 15th April – Saturday 20th May 2023
This Spring Globe Arts Studio present Textiles, Drawing & Making by the talented Nicola Perren.
Nicola is a freelance designer, maker, artist and teacher with a studio-based practice here at Globe Art Studios in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire.
Drawing is at the heart of Nicola Perren’s practice, often developing into and through textiles. Form, decoration, abstraction, colour, space and material are pushed and pulled through an experimental process to create unforeseen outcomes. Design, model making, art, sculpture, construction, fashion, quilt making, and craft inspire this creative practice which draws equally from the professional through to the amateur.
Textiles, Drawing & Making presents various works that nod to thoughts in progress, ideas that go nowhere and sparks of new directions.
I AM WOMAN
An inclusive exhibition to highlight women identifying artists.
13th March - 8th April 2023
Preview PUSHED BACK DUE TO SNOW will now take place on Saturday 18th March, 6-8pm, for friends and family of contributing artists, plus Friends of Globe.
For International Women’s Day 2023, our very own Becca Stockwell is curating an inclusive exhibition to highlight women identifying artists.
The exhibition will be a collection of art exploring the personal topic of what it means to be a woman, with the aim to represent women of different ages, ethnicities, sexualities, life experiences and artistic journeys.
Join us for our opening night on 11th March at 6pm for lots of drinks, baked goods, funky tunes, cute doggos, and of course good vibes!
One of our amazing studio holders, Jo Blaker, will be sketching portraits on the night for donations, and we will have a few creative activities going on for everyone to take part in.
We will be donating any monies raised to Huddersfield Women's Aid Charity, so please come and help us support an amazing cause.
Andrew Wild
‘For Time Being No-Thing On Tick’
4th February - 4th March 2023
Preview on Friday 3rd February at 7pm, open to all. Running from 4th February onwards during Globe Arts Studio opening times, Monday – Thursday and Saturdays, 10AM – 3PM.
Andrew Wild is an artist working primarily with paint, collage and sound-collage, living and practising in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire.
Wild gained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle, in 2009 and has since exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions, most recently, Our Lives, Ephemera, at Newcastle Arts Centre, and Each Action Informs the Next, with Malory Maki, at South Square Gallery, Thornton.
An active participant within the ‘No-Audience Underground’ network of international experimental music, Wild runs the DIY art/experimental music project, Crow Versus Crow, encompassing podcast and radio show on Camp Radio (France), gig organisation, record label and limited-edition zine publication.
Meet the Artist - Thursday 13th October, 6pm-8pm
Dr Tom Ratcliffe is an artist and art historian who lives and works in Brighouse, West Yorkshire (UK).
Tom creates artwork in a variety of media including painting, print and sculpture. He has shown his work widely throughout the UK and has recently become a member of the West Yorkshire Print Workshop, leading to prints being exhibited in Hong Kong, Russia, Scotland and Ireland.
My work is about memories, histories not only of the spaces but also of the processes and confluences of those processes in production. The images hover between figuration and abstraction hinting at their origins and creating a universal response to the world. As with many of the works they therefore naturally evolve as a series, although they stand alone as individual works. There is therefore a sense of time as the audience travels between related works.
This year we are dedicating our annual Summer Exhibition to the fabulous Yayoi Kusama! This event will run for 1 week only, from Monday 22nd August, with an Art Market on Saturday 27th, 11-3PM.
Everyone is welcome to showcase art, wether it be something you have created in one our classes, summer school, or at home, this exhibition is for our community! Want to apply? Click here
Medical Packaging
The content and context of my work is to interpret the experience of physical health, through the process of re working and manipulating ephemeral raw materials, in the form of medical packages/ blister packs/ patient information leaflets. At times these are combined with digital images of scans and other medical imaging. Current work is a record of working with individuals, who offered up during 2020-21, their empty medical packages/ blister packs/ patient information leaflets and significant words or phrases they wish to share publicly, associated with their long term medical conditions.
Mick Kirkby-Geddes
14th May - 18th June 2022
My interest in faces comes from Pareidolia* or the seeing of faces in patterns and shapes where there aren't any. Wether it’s the man in the moon or Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun, it’s an ancient reaction quickly helping us decide if we should fight or flight. Fast forward to the modern world and pareidolia has taken on a different context, making us smile rather than anxious.
This exhibition turns that concept around by making faces from various types of scrap metal and everyday objects. It fascinates me how the same head can have different characteristics depending on what it’s made from.
They’re all Heads but the materials tell different Tales.
* i had to look it up!
Trace Illustration & Lindsay Loves to Draw
‘A Tale of Two Artists - An eclectic mix of creative quirkiness and fun’
9th April - 7th May 2022
Private viewing for family, friends, and Friends of Globe on 9th April, from 2-4pm, where we’ll be serving refreshments.
Open to the public 11th April - 7th May 2022 during Globe Arts Studio opening times, Monday – Thursday 10AM – 3PM, and Saturday, 10AM – 3PM.
Tracy is a Yorkshire based artist. Her inspiration comes from seeing the fun and humour in people, objects and animals. She use’s ink which gives an innocent playful line, and she then loves to add colour using watercolour paints. Her illustration characters come to life in their stitched form.
Lindsay is a freelance Artist and Illustrator with a background in surface pattern and greeting card design. She loves to draw, paint and create using an eclectic mix of materials, techniques and subject matter. The natural world, everyday surroundings and objects and characters are often featured, pulled together with an elements of storytelling and joyful quirkiness.
Diana Terry
28th October - 15th December 2021
Diana Terry
My paintings and collographic prints are about the landscape. They consider the narrative between humanity and the environment by recording the impact of industry in my area. Recently in Lockdown I have become aware of these scars in the landscape left from the Industrial Revolution. Further research has connected this work with the aerial photography of the massive open cast mines in Australia and the Anthropocene Project. As a result my work is becoming more abstract and critically engaged moving away from a representational approach. These colourful, vibrant textured surfaces resonates with the land, evoking the deep geological memories ingrained in the rocks and hills of the Pennines.
Olivia Turner
11th September - 23rd October 2021
Olivia Turner is an Edinburgh-based artist whose work focuses on manipulating spaces through two/three dimensional outcomes. In 2015 she co-founded DOK Artist Space, a grass-roots contemporary exhibition and studio space in Edinburgh, where she ran an acclaimed Exhibition programme until 2018. During this period Turner worked closely with a wide range of emerging and established artists. In 2018 she was invited to co-produce the Architecture Fringe Festival across Scotland. In 2020 she became the President of the Society of Scottish Artists.
Having enjoyed a string of successes after graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2015, she has become a notable artist in Edinburgh’s creative scene. Turner has continued to develop her practice and exhibits worldwide. She has also been a recipient of several Awards: including RSA Latimer Award; RSA Sir William Gillies Bequest Award; Open Contemporary Young Artist Award.
Deborah Beck
11th September - 23rd October 2021
Deborah works from a small studio in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, where she creates sustainable contemporary silver and mixed metal jewellery with an environmental conscience and a clean and distinctive style.
Sustainable contemporary jewellery designs incorporating recycled metals and waste materials. Deborah Beck’s collections have an environmental conscience and a clean and distinctive style. In Plasticity, her latest work, Deborah recycles and reforms entirely by hand the single-use plastic litter she has collected on her daily dog walks along the river Holme. In her Holme Valley studio, she cuts, shapes and refines this repurposed raw material and positions it within sculptural recycled metal structures, creating colourful wearable art pieces that are directly inspired by the straight lines of human industry. Her work responds to pertinent global concerns and the effect of human activity on the planet with dramatic visual references and an urban aesthetic, yet remains ultimately wearable, oscillating in an intriguing interspace between the familiar and the unconventional. Her collections and ‘slow-craft’ practice actively engage with the wider debate surrounding sustainability, notions of preciousness and waste in the design and jewellery industry and the movement towards a circular economy.
Our planet is changing. There is no longer any doubt that human actions are the primary cause.
With our exploding population, transportation networks, agricultural methods, nuclear tests and energy production, our plastics and our cities, we have radically altered the chemical and biological composition of our land, air and water.We have damaged the planet so badly that we are entering a new epoch. The choice is ours whether we change things for the better or worse. What will our legacy be?
“We have to act. We have to act now to try and clean up some of the appalling damage we have made and that is going to require positive action”
- Sir David Attenborough
Summer Exhibition 2021
28th - 30th August August 2021
10AM - 3PM
Globe Arts Summer Exhibition
An exhibition of works by YOU our creative community
Following the huge success of our 2018 homage to Grayson perry and 2019 homage to Van Gogh Summer Exhibitions, we are very excited and proud this year to be creating a show that pays homage to YOU, our fabulous Creative Community!
Visit us between 10AM - 3PM on Saturday 28th, Sunday 29th or Monday 30th, to see all of the amazing community art on display, including the WOVEN in Kirklees patchworks.
Ella Dawson
5th - 31st August 2021
Ella Dawson, a local multidisciplinary artist exploring ideas of human existence and experience, exhibits her wide range of contemporary work at the Globe Arts Summer Exhibition 2021. Ella’s work contemplates ideas such as matter, materiality, time, duration, and spatiality, while working intuitively with textile and colour.
Ella expertly develops her own imagery and language of colour through sustained and varied experimental resulting in an ambitious and skilfully produced body of work. Ella combines her affinity of textiles and paint whilst always including her love of drawing and mark making.
Yorkshire Colourists
26th June - 24th July 2021
Catherine is a professional artist whose art has been greatly influenced by her studies in textiles. Consequently she has always been strongly drawn to texture as well as colour in her work.
More recently she moved on to the medium of paint and she now enjoys translating that love of texture into her paintings, layer by layer. She uses a wide range of materials to build up the surface as well as adding numerous layers of colour. She enjoys the process of suggesting half hidden images by continuously covering and revealing, leaving some areas suggested rather than firmly defined. “Whatever subject I am painting I enjoy creating that tension between representation and abstraction” says Catherine,“I like my paintings to be a balance between the definite, the indefinite, opacity and transparency and above all a balance of colours. Colour is my religion and the reason why I paint”.
David McCallam is a native of the Calder Valley and has studied and worked in this deeply historic environment for many years.
David graduated from Bradford College of Art but it is only very recently that he has been able to concentrate on expressing his local landscape through art. Having made this decision David says “it’s uncanny how situations and opportunities have presented themselves – they have found me rather than the other way round.”
David has worked with pastels, acrylic and watercolour in bold expressive ways and practiced in much of England from the far north to Lands End and also in Spain, Germany and Italy. David says “My latest work with the Yorkshire Colourists is my most exciting to date and is the direction I intend to pursue”.
Born in Holmfirth and presently living in Huddersfield , my family have a long history of farming the local landscape. Their livelihood relied on a deep and intimate understanding of the land, seasons and the weather conditions.
In my own work I also feel a similar connection when I depict the captivating Yorkshire moorland with its constantly changing light and large dramatic skies. These Pennine spaces with their ancient pathways and hidden sacred places , revered by our ancestors, are the source and inspiration of much of my work.
Originally I studied drawing and the traditions of oil painting however my time at the Art Academy has introduced me to a broader range of techniques including those a little less conventional.
Working within a group of artists has been both stimulating and challenging ,naturally my work has grown and this I hope ,is just the beginning.
David Preston & Maggie O’Keeffe
17th May - 19th June 2021
David Preston
I developed my love for photography in my teens after seeing the magic of a print developing in front of my eyes in the darkroom. Like almost everyone else, I have since made the transition to digital photography and have spent many years capturing the landscapes of Yorkshire and Northumberland. Latterly, and partly as a reaction to the now ubiquitous nature of traditional digital photography, I have developed a more abstract approach.
The sea is a recurring theme in my work and these images aim to capture within a photograph, the movement, energy and ever-changing nature of waves and the shoreline.
I came to discover a love for ceramics much later in life, after attending evening classes at Globe Arts. My practice has developed into a precise style of wheel-thrown ceramics, that are enhanced with surface decoration and glazes.
I have made glazes and developed new glaze combinations that capture the same sense of movement and energy as my seascape photography. In combining these glazes on individual pieces my hope is to evoke that place where sea meets sand.
In conversation with
David Preston
Maggie O’Keeffe
There's nothing like coming to life class - a shared space filled with stillness, human connection and deep concentration. Life drawing is central to my practice and links back to my very first experiences of discovering myself as an artist. Life drawing is probably the closest I ever get to "flow" or being in the zone. It reminds me why I paint, it helps me recover from blank artless states, and keeps me human.
David Preston & Maggie O’Keeffe
Meet the Artist
Saturday 22nd May 2021
Globe Arts Studio
Slaithwaite, Huddersfield. HD7 5AG
Saturday 22nd May 2021
2 pm - 3 pm