{"id":61396,"date":"2026-05-11T14:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=61396"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:20:47","slug":"artists-take-centre-stage-with-open-up-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/artists-take-centre-stage-with-open-up-sheffield\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists take centre stage with Open Up Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A city-wide art festival has brought attention to the artists of Sheffield and their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last two weeks, artists from all over the area have been working with Open Up Sheffield, an annual makers festival, which has allowed the public to explore the creative minds of their city for the last 27 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On these consecutive weekends, all different forms of art were displayed from oil paintings, to digital arts and ceramics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Scown is a ceramist who teamed up with Brian Holland and other local ceramists to form The Ceramic Collective, where they all worked together to help spotlight each other’s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr Scown, who was exhibiting at the Persistence Works, said: \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of very hard work making a living, and selling with clay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s amazingly rewarding, I still can\u2019t believe that I’m earning a living, just getting my hand\u2019s mucky with clay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He believes that he has got to the point where he \u201ccan\u2019t think of the last time, I had a day where I wasn’t thinking about ceramics and clay at some point in the day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leo Fieldhouse, an oil painter, looks at how the relationship between figures and the environment can create a sense of tension and often isolation. He was displaying his work at the Bank Street Studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He loves colour and the abstract, \u2018blending figurative work with abstract, landscape and figures\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the following years he studied architecture and worked within the art department in Film and TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by his mother, who has been a yearly participant in Open Up, he was inspired to use a space of his own and give light to his pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Fieldhouse said: \u201cThis is a really good opportunity to show the work in the gallery space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s nice just talking to people about the work and what inspired it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Up Sheffield gives the people the opportunity to meet like minded individuals and encourages all to have fun no matter what creative form they choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A city-wide art festival has brought attention to the artists of Sheffield and their work. Over the last two weeks, artists from all over the area have been working with Open Up Sheffield, an annual makers festival, which has allowed the public to explore the creative minds of their city for the last 27 years. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":61409,"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":[7,5,132],"tags":[97,939,312,12],"class_list":["post-61396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-art","tag-artfairsheffield","tag-festival","tag-sheffield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61396","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\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61431,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61396\/revisions\/61431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}