Projects & Events
Picnic in the Park 2024
Picnic in the Park 2024 was held on Sunday 4th August. The weather was kind and around 500 people attended the BYO community picnic, and were entertained by the Horbury Victoria Band, the Horbury Town Football Club, the inaugural 'Pride of Horbury' Tug-of-War...
TUG-OF-WAR
This year Picnic in the Park will stage the first annual 'Pride of Horbury' Tug-of-War at 3.00pm The application form is here Tug of War Application Form and all teams must complete an entry form in order to compete. Carr Lodge Park - Sunday 4th August - from 1.00pm...
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.
Making the Call
This installation at Redbox celebrates work created by adults with learning difficulties and/or autism, and it highlights careers in Learning Disability Nursing. The screen shows films made by CoActive Arts, alongside information about careers in Learning Disability...
Redbox Gallery
A new installation by Emily Binks is now on show at Redbox. Emily Binks. b.1992, Wakefield. Emily Binks is an Artist, creative practitioner and teacher based at the Art House, Wakefield since 2015. Binks works predominantly manifest as, but are not limited to,...
A machine to play a simple paradiddle
A machine to play a simple paradiddle Wood, snare drum, video performance 1’49” – Phil Illingworth 2022 https://www.philillingworth.com/ This work has been personalised for Redbox through the introduction of a snare drum made by Highwood Drums of School Lane,...
Redbox Gallery – call for artists
The classic K6 telephone box on Queen Street, Horbury was purchased from BT by Horbury Civic Society in 2018. It has been re-painted, re-glazed and re-purposed as an art space. It has a power supply, lighting and a locking door. We are calling for new proposals from...
VISION FOR HORBURY – AN ACTION PLAN
The township of Horbury includes Horbury Village, Horbury Bridge and Horbury Junction. It is an ancient settlement dating from before William the Conqueror and the Domesday book. We appreciate Horbury as an attractive township, full of historic character, surrounded...
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...
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 Christmas – 0800 Do You Believe?
0800 Do You Believe - a new work by Jenny Watson of Yorkshirearts, has now been installed at Redbox Gallery. The work, which features ceramics made with input from community groups at the Cluntergate Centre, will be in place until mid February.
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;...
Redbox Gallery
Redbox Gallery occupies a K6 telephone box which the Society purchased from BT for £1. Redbox has a strong curatorial policy which requires all commissioned artists to find a Horbury institution or organisation to engage with, and to concieve a new work inspired by...
Horbury Aviary
The Horbury Aviary project seeks to establish a large number of bird sculpture windvanes on buildings around the town. The bird sculptures are the work of Bruce Williams https://www.brucewilliams.net/projects/horbury-owl/ and each bird is personalised for the...
Events
We have an ongoing cultural programme of events: talks, walks and visits. We arrange visits to places of interest. Here we are visiting Streets in the Sky in Halifax. This event was facilitated by Halifax Civic Society.
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