{"id":61468,"date":"2026-05-12T11:38:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=61468"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:38:51","slug":"open-up-festival-celebrates-28-years-of-sheffields-art-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/open-up-festival-celebrates-28-years-of-sheffields-art-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Up festival celebrates 28 Years of Sheffield’s art community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

140 emerging and award winning artists opened their studios and showcased artwork to the public over May Bank holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisation has hosted the “Open Up” event for 28 years led by Kate Jacob, abstract artist and co-founder of Open up in 1998 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An artist know professionally as Amadore, 29, from Ranmoor, said: \u201c My inspiration for pieces on Sheffield are from places I loved going to but are also iconic and have history behind them. My best sellers are the Leadmill and the River Side, because Leadmill has been because they are nostalgic landmarks for people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was so excited when they told me that had won the 2025 Peak District Artisans Emerging Award and got an opportunity to go a solo show and exhibit my art\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another artist that started his journey travelling around India for 50 years, Peter Bennion, 77 is a photographer, from Leeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cMy favourite photograph would be this lady named \u2018Tsering Dolkar\u2019s\u2019 in laws on whom we camped when we travelled Ladakh. That connection meant so much to us, I have a spiritual connection to all my work and indication of a special human despite my interest in photographing architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are many things in India people may not like but looking at the architecture I realised that it is going through a period of renaissance.\u201d He added that his muse for over a half a decade has been landscape and architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tanya Wells, 56, based in Broomhill in her little courtyard studio works on handwoven items. She said: \u201cTrying to make small changes and understanding the work that goes behind the clothes on the racks and the underappreciation for it and I try to set an example through my work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSustainability is a huge part of it because textile is a horrible industry. A lot of the material in the world ends up in landfills. We also had a lot of kids asking about the concern for textile waste.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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140 emerging and award winning artists opened their studios and showcased artwork to the public over May Bank holiday. The organisation has hosted the “Open Up” event for 28 years led by Kate Jacob, abstract artist and co-founder of Open up in 1998 . An artist know professionally as Amadore, 29, from Ranmoor, said: \u201c […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":61476,"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":[],"class_list":["post-61468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61468","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\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61493,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61468\/revisions\/61493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}