{"id":60884,"date":"2026-05-05T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=60884"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:51:01","slug":"sheffield-hosts-free-art-event-to-appreciate-residents-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/sheffield-hosts-free-art-event-to-appreciate-residents-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield hosts Free Art Event to appreciate residents&#8217; artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheffield hosts Free Art Event to appreciate resident&#039;s artwork\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IT1YXBTm8Zg?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Open Up Sheffield had a free art event where many artists around the Sheffield area, such as Fulwood, presented their art in their homes for people to view.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shef-Live visited two exhibitions: one from Graham Dunn, a fine-art landscape photographer, and another from Karen Perkins and Celia Bennett, who are both artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The creators shared their journeys that led to their work and their opinions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Perkins, an artist and hiker, said: \u201cI think speed\u2019s good for me. I don\u2019t overthink it, I just enjoy it\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viewers were able to buy art pieces from as cheap as \u00a32.50 to as expensive as \u00a32,295.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 144 artists showed their artwork during the bank holiday weekend and will continue next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Up Sheffield had a free art event where many artists around the Sheffield area, such as Fulwood, presented their art in their homes for people to view. Shef-Live visited two exhibitions: one from Graham Dunn, a fine-art landscape photographer, and another from Karen Perkins and Celia Bennett, who are both artists. The creators shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":60898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,1],"tags":[97,160,560,1264,1262,12,1263,213],"class_list":["post-60884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-fulwood","tag-openupsheffield","tag-residents","tag-sheffield","tag-southwest","tag-university-of-sheffield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61017,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60884\/revisions\/61017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}