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Culture & Art
Making a Racquet (at Redbox Gallery)
John Mayson is an artist and educator living in Yorkshire and working across the UK. He’s often known as ArtJohn, a name given to him by the local community whilst working as Artist in Residence at Manorfield Primary School in East London. For two decades he has...
PLACEMAKER
On Saturday and Sunday the 4th and 5th May, volunteers from Horbury Civic Society took part in PLACEMAKER, a project to enhance the appearance of Horbury through replacing old street name signs with new, bespoke signs bearing the Horbury three castles crest. The...
Springboards – by Helen Thomas
There is a new artwork at Redbox Gallery; Springboards by Helen Thomas.
Redbox Gallery – call for artists
Redbox Gallery invites proposals from artists for 2022. The pro-forma is here Proposal outline pro-forma 2022 The fee payable to the selected artit is usually £500 and the display period is usually 8 weeks. Ownership of the work is retained by the artist. For more...
Mother of Hope
Ceramicist Drew Caines has installed a new work in Redbox Gallery. Titled 'Mother of Hope' the clay female figure stands 180cm high and contains text baked into the figure. Drew says “Life is hard for everyone at the moment and we have all endured desperate times. So...
A Shot in the Park
The Friends of Horbury's Parks are running a photo competition to find some great images of Horbury's parks and green spaces. The competiton details are here FoHP Photo Competition T&Cs and prizes will be awarded to winners in the Under 16s category and the open...
Horbury Shoal
Horbury Shoal is a new seating arrangement for the Queen Street site. It has been commissioned by the Good of Small Things project which finds opportunities for artists to add life to the Horbury streetscape. Shoal is the work of Martin Heron, a well known sculpture...
The Seagull has Landed
The Seagull has Landed - 31 July 2020 The third bird in the Horbury Aviary project has now been installed. Sculptor Bruce Williams has made a new windvane for Horbury; this time a 'seagull' (actually a herring gull) that sits over a bag of chips behind the chip shop...
Thinking outside the box
Redbox Gallery has a timely new installation, addressing mental health issues Thinking Outside the Box A creative collaboration between Cate Frampton of Horbury Integrative Therapies and Claire Lake of Clearly Creative, a fused glass artist based in Ackworth. Claire...
The Exploding Lawnmower
This spring themed installation is devised in collaboration with Horbury Lawnmowers who kindly donated a vintage Suffolk Punch lawnmower for me to ‘explode’ and, subsequently, to curate and exhibit as individual parts within the Redbox Gallery. I felt that there...
Redbox Gallery – call for proposals
If you would like to submit an outline proposal for an artwork to be exhibited in Redbox Gallery you must do two things: firstly find a Horbury institution or organisation to engage with and describe briefly how you would work with that institution or organisation;...