Category: Visual art

Apply Now for the Art & Architecture Trail 2022

After our Covid enforced cancellation of the Art & Architecture Trail last year we are now thrilled to be back for 2022! Wirksworth Art & Architecture Trail 10th & 11th September 2022 Once again, the people of our wonderful town will be opening up their homes to artists to display their work for visitors…. Read more »

2022 artist-in-residence applications – Now Closed

Applications now open for the Festival’s 2022 artist in residence programme.

Tim Ball presents Maisie Gregory with the Gerry Vaughan Award

This year’s Gerry Vaughan Award Winner

Congratulations to Maisie Gregory, this year’s Gerry Vaughan Award winner!

2021’s Festival Round Up

A HUGE thank you to everyone that has helped make this year’s Festival a smaller-than-usual, but still very special one!

Online Art Prize Results

Take a look at the winners of this first year’s Online Art Prize main and People’s Prize winners.

People’s Prize named in honour of constant Festival supporter

Stella Feldman loved art throughout her life and supported local artists through the Festival and beyond, and so it is most fitting that this prize should be named in her honour.

The Wirksworth Festival Online Art Prize

We are absolutely thrilled to announce the first ever Wirksworth Festival Online Art Prize, sponsored by Longcliffe Community Fund!

Meet our 2021 filmmaker!

We’re really pleased to announce the 2021 filmmaker commission has been awarded to Tom Dwyer from Belper in Derbyshire. Find out more about Tom in this blog.

Commission opportunity for Derbyshire-based visual artist / filmmaker

We’re looking for an up-and-coming Derbyshire-based visual artist / filmmaker to create a 10-minute film documenting the work of our artist in residence for this year’s Festival.

artist Liane Lang in her studio in London

Meet Liane Lang, 2021’s artist in residence

We’re really excited to announce that the Festival’s next artist-in-residence is London-based artist, Liane Lang, who will be taking up the residency in July 2021.

Let’s buy art for Christmas!

Find out more about our new Facebook group designed to make it easy to discover great presents this Christmas!

The Trail Must Go On… line

We are so excited to announce that Wirksworth Festival has commissioned acclaimed filmmaker, Gavin Repton, to create a short film in celebration of our annual Art & Architecture Trail.

Denis O'Connor photographic portrait by Chris Webb from Made in Wirksworth exhibition

Looking back at ‘Made in Wirksworth’

Taking a look back at 2019’s Curated Exhibition: Made in Wirksworth

Michael Shaw installation, St Marys 2019

Applications open for The Lodge Project, artist-in-residence programme

Following the success of Michael Shaw’s 2019 residency, we’re seeking applicants for this year’s Lodge Project.

Mystery art sale to raise money for youth arts

As part of this year’s celebrations, the Festival is hosting a mystery postcard art sale to raise money for youth arts.

Denis O’Connor 2019 Curator

Internationally renowned artist and Wirksworth resident Denis O’Connor will be behind this year’s Curated Exhibition.

Exhibition poster for Where rock and hard place meet

Victoria Lucas: Where Rock & Hard Place Meet

An exciting new exhibition by Victoria Lucas has opened at Wirksworth’s Haarlem Artspace.

Grandfather clocks are the feature of Amanda Wray's sculpture Old Timers Wirksworth Festival 2018

Keeping it in the family

Wirksworth-based artists Johnny White and Amanda Wray have put together a show that offers wide-appeal with a good dose of fun thrown in.

Introducing the 2017 curators

Wirksworth Festival’s 2017 curators shape an exciting line up for this year’s curated exhibition

An interview with Wolfgang Buttress in St Mary’s Church

Here’s a short film made by Gavin Repton of Wolfgang Buttress and Geoff Diego Litherland (this year’s curator) talking about the idea of Wolfgang’s new piece, BEAM and how it relates to Wolfgang’s wider practice and recent work The Hive.

Our 4 Graduate Artists have now been announced!

Within the curated exhibition, directly alongside the work of accomplished practitioners, the Festival Curator, Geoff Diego Litherland has hand-picked graduates, Alexandra Rose, Helen Sayer, Hayley Blackwell and Aylwin Greenwood-Lambert.

Introducing this year’s curators

For 2016, we are pleased to announce that our main exhibition is curated by Geoff Diego Litherland and Wirksworth based artist Dermot Punnett, titled Nature: Here and Now.

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