The Harley Open exhibition returns with 138 works on show by artists, makers and heritage craft practitioners from across the region.
Selected from more than 700 submissions, this year’s exhibition celebrates the breadth of creativity found within 100 miles of the Harley Foundation. From photography, painting and pottery, to canal art and clog making, the exhibition brings together a rich mix of contemporary art and heritage craft.
For the first time, the 2026 Harley Open invited submissions of freestanding work and actively encouraged applications from heritage craft practitioners.
The result is our most diverse open exhibition to date, featuring both fine art and works made using traditional craft skills, including over 15 crafts considered endangered or critically endangered in the UK.
Bringing together established and emerging makers, visit the Harley Open 2026 to discover the breadth of creativity, skill and talent in our region.
Prizes
Shinta Nakajima for Fugacious Vessel /Acanthus 21: winner of the Judge’s Prize sponsored by the Harley Foundation, £3000.
The People’s Prize sponsored by Welbeck Estates Company: £1000.
Voting opens both in person and online at the exhibition launch event. Voting will close in December.
Sarah Kirby for Walk from the Camellia House: winner of the Welbeck Abbey Brewery Prize: Your work printed on a limited edition beer label (sold exclusively in the Welbeck Farm Shop) and a case of the beer (12x500ml bottles).
The Judges
The Harley Open 2026 was judged by: Bryony Bond, Director of the Harley Foundation; James Fox, art historian and author of Craftland; and Joe Hill, Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
James Fox
Art historian and multi-award-winning, BAFTA nominated broadcaster, known for his many acclaimed BBC documentaries. He is the author of Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades and the celebrated The World According to Colour: A Cultural History.
Joe Hill
Recently appointed Director and CEO of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Hill was previously the Director of Towner Eastbourne and is one of the jury members for the 2026 Turner Prize.
Selected Exhibitors
Adam Barnes, Vedere
Alexandra Cook, Home
Alice Watkinson, Salty Moon Rock
Alison Folland, Roads Remembered
Ally Kendrick Clew, Unremarkable: Stand of Trees in early Autumn
Amanda Wray, Long Legs
Amelia Wright, Eaten Bread is Soon Forgotten
Amy Lipscombe, The Veiled Vestal
Anna Owen, Now You See Me
Anne Stansfield, FLOW II
Bob Wood, Getting to know each other
Bronwen Grieves, BG 573
Caroline Greyling, Night Blooms (Amanzimtoti)
Charlotte Ashbourne, Sympoietic Surfaces
Christine Meyer-Eaglestone, Diptych – ‘Spheres & Angles’
Christopher Turrell, Dungeness Poppy
Claire Broad, Untitled
Clare Hill, Listening
Clare Thornthwaite, Held In Trust
Colette Eberhard and Francesca Gill, Goat Skin Skull Cap
Daniel Connolly, Apple
Daniel Dul, Wren
Daniel Jackson and Claire Ridley, Glass & Gold
David Beedall, MY TIME.
David Severn, Farewell Sebastian
Deborah Ann La Banca, On the Way
Dee Barnes, My utopian dream
Denise Coupland, Do You See What I See?
Diana Green, Deep in the gorge
Esteban Peña Parga, Untitled
Fiona Arnold and Edd Ravn, Pod
David Fox and Liz O’Connell, Intersection of the Wefts
Frances Ball, The Angel of Sheffield
Francis Underwater, The Fighter
Gareth Brown, Beached Root VII
Geoff Chase, Drawn in
Georgina Barney, Blocks for Kate and Baby and Me
Gracie Fallowfield, The Manhattan Rings
Graeme Hawes, Diamond cut Drop Slice
Hannah Kelly, Convergence
Hannah Lamb, Inheritance
Hannah Lane, Bud
Hannah Mackaness, Rubbish Glazes
Helen Leaf, Bud/Flow
Helen Marie Newman, Thread (Object)
Helen Tucker, Plantain and Nettles
Hilary Marsh, Spring
Iain Broadbent, Blackcaps in a Gothic Tracery
Jackie Leggett, Circle Clogs
Jackie Stephens, Handwoven, handstitched half scale kilt
Jade Webb, Wandering
James Hirst, Muney
Jan O’Neill, Dark Earth Amphora
Jana Bareham, Flow
Jane Littlefield, Girl and Golden Oriole
Jeff Maker, Luna Chair
Jennie Moncur, Abundance
Jenny Haynes, Hexibore
Jenny Marshall, Making Ends Meet
Jenny Waterson, Becoming (happy smiley people)
Jessica Rosewarn, Bijoux de Poubelle
Jodie Hatcher, Butterbur
John Ayrton, Crossley Comb-back Stick Chair
Joseph Curle, Saddle-stitched derby no.3
Joy Gosney, Idyll
Judith Duvall, Lilies
Juliet Forrest, Les Dents du Midi et le Voie Lactee
Kalyano, Defensive
Katch Skinner, Moorland Plant Jug
Kate Buckley, Blossom at the Golden Light of Dawn
Kate Whitehead, Kate
Katharina Klug, The unexpected visitor
Kathryn Hoath, Curve-folded Origami Tower
Kerry Adams, Woven in time
Kevin Moxon, Out On The Floor
Laura Barker, Memory Mantle
Lena Sass, Death shouldn’t cost the earth
Lianne Mellor, for Strength
Lily Ford, Grief; Revisited fifty times.
Lisa Metherell, Holes in Care (Family Life)
Louise McArthur, Bog Cloth
Lucy Towle, Straw Chandelier
Luke Tapsell, The Diviner’s Bridle
Madison Bennett, Absoconsa I
Maksym Yefremov, Corporate Aloha
Marc England, The Valkyrie Armour
Mark Langley, Roger Sutton in the Workshop
Martin Clarkson, The Major Oak (An Ark Through Time)
Mary Johnson, Harvest Jug with Strawberries
Mary Stephens, ‘Individual Consciousness’ A Potter’s meditation on a living philosophy of Yoga. ‘Sa – ta – na – ma’ – ‘beginnings, existence, transformation, joy’
Matilda Angel Williamson, Work Worn
Matt Whiting, Form No.17
Max Watkins, Metamorphoses (ca. 1531)
Michael Enderby Smith, The Stiperstones
Michaela McMillan, The Ballad of Memories and Dreams
Momoka Gomi, flow 3
Naomi Clarke, Solargraph Green Series
Naomi Ison, Fleeting
Nell Swift, Summer Meadow
Nicholas Pryke, Occasional table
Olga Prinku, Hush
Patricia Qua, Horizon line
Peter James Houghton, Gleadless Flats
Peter Rixham, Life Less Linear
Phil Neal, Stanley
Rachael Colley, MelonColley (brooch)
Richard Reeve, A Sweet Pea
Richard Wood, A Sweeps Dream
Robert Hunter, Granite
Robin Henderson, Sculpture Galley, Crawford School of Art
Roger Allen, Kidsty Pike and Haweswater
Rosa Harradine, Farmhouse Broom – Wine
Ruth Garbutt, Great Crested Grebes
Ruth Taylor, Guernsey #1
Sarah Godfrey, Growing together
Sarah Kirby, Walk from the Camellia House
Sarah Loughlin, Dwell #3
Sarah Turner, Second Nature
Sarah-Jane Roberts, Petrol Can (do you mind if I moor here?)
Shinta Nakajima, Fugacious Vessel / Acanthus 21
Shirley Hudson, River Ure near Masham
Sophie Cero, faith
Stephen Carley, Queen Inverted King Double X Throne. Fragments and Stuff.
Steve Handley, The Ploughboy’s Dream
Steve Melluish, Apollo
Tanya Bentham, maiden, mother, and crone
Theo Miller, Long Shadows
Val Glenny, Love Winter!
Valerie Greeley RMS, Imbolic six fold
Verity Pulford, Tippler’s Bane
Victoria Oulton, The Unseen Structures of Natural Colour
Victoria Plaunova, The Ivy and 152 moves
Wendy Dean, Out of the Shadows
Wendy Louise Galloway, A lovely cup of tea
Xinyi Chen, Snoozing hedgehog
Yang Zhou, Faërie I
Yang Jiang, A victim’s confession
