Meet our Studio Holders
Aidan Liggins
Aidan Liggins is a printer and maker of patterns and beautiful fabrics. Her goal is to create fabrics and pieces for the home which last and are loved for a whole lifetime.
Liggins also believes that the creative process and things we have in our home should be kind to the planet, she celebrates slow creation and consumption of products to instil quality and foster traditions.
Find out moreAli Appleby
Ali Appleby is a Yorkshire based printmaker and designer. Her hand screen-printed pieces have an illustrative quality, paying attention to line, colour and shape.
Ali boasts an extensive range of printed products, including greetings cards, limited edition prints, cushions, lampshades, zip bags and upholstered furniture, many of which she hand screen prints.
Find out moreAlicia Wallace
Alicia Wallace is a disabled Wakefield based experimental artist with an interdisciplinary practice including long exposure photography, immersive installations, community workshops, and interactive collaborative work.
Alicia is an advocate for inclusivity, accessibility and creating opportunities for disabled and neurodivergent artists, creative workers and audiences.
Find out moreAll Records Broken
Johnny Hughes is a British contemporary artist and creator of the brand All Records Broken.
Hughes creates custom-made jewellery, often depicting people or characters from popular culture. His bespoke commissions have gained international recognition in the music industry with clients including rappers Post Malone, Lil Uzi Vert, AJ Tracey, Yung Gravy and many more.
Find out moreBeam
Beam is a cultural development organisation, producing public art programmes and commissions and develop place-based cultural and public art strategies and fundraisers, working across the north of England.
Beam’s inclusive approach champions, celebrates and engages Artists and Communities to shape and animate thriving places, supporting positive community wellbeing and economic benefit.
Find out moreBev Adams
Bev Adams is a Yorkshire-based freelance Artistic Director and Creative Producer who creates professional outdoor arts and community co-created productions where she uses masks and puppetry.
Adams champions inclusivity within festivals and events, with an emphasis on social purpose, diversity and community participation. Her projects engaging people from all walks of life, helping them to connect with each other.
Find out moreBryan Mucheriwa
Originally from Zimbabwe, Bryan Mucheriwa travelled with his young family to the UK in the 1980s in order to seek asylum. Since then, he has taken part in many exhibitions across the UK.
Mucheriwa’s latest work, The Long Walk (2022), is a thoughtful reflection of the struggles faced by those who must leave their home country in order to seek safety.
Charlie Wells
Charlie Wells is a sound artist, composer and creative producer based in West Yorkshire. As well as her own creative practice, she specialises in supporting communities to develop their own creative projects, with a
focus on arts, heritage and music.
Charlie’s creative practice focuses on storytelling through sound. Telling stories of people, identity and place.
Find out moreClare Carter
Clare Carter is a visual artist and songwriter, currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at the University of Leeds, where she has been awarded scholarship for her research period.
The human relationship to landscape, dwelling and world-making is central to Carters practice. The title for Carter’s research is Mothering Beyond The Flesh: ecology, creative practice and maternal agency in landscapes of the Anthropocene.
Find out moreCTG- The Craft Tech Gamers
The CTG comprise of three core members and their areas of interest, each bringing their specialist knowledge to the table.
All three grew up during a time when learning disabilities were only just beginning to be addressed in West Yorkshire schools, thus they turned to different interests to help them find their place in the world.
Dave Royston
Dave Royston is a Wakefield based Designer and Printmaker, primarily using silkscreen techniques.
Royston’s keen interest in design, particularly mid-late twentieth century design, and the use and interaction of colour inspires him to create printed works on both paper and fabric. More recently, Royston has been creating bespoke, one-off pieces with a focus on strong design details and individuality.
Find out moreEllie Way
Ellie Way is a freelance designer and screen-printer whose practice is driven by placemaking. She specialises in designing bespoke prints and posters for commercial businesses, organisations or community groups with the purpose of promoting their locality and cultural offering in a distinctive manner.
Way is best known for her Travel Poster collections which she started designing in 2020, inspired by the ingenious design from the golden age of travel.
Find out moreEmii Alrai
Emii Alrai is an artist whose work spans material investigation in relation to memory, critique of the western museological structure and the complexity of ruins.
Working primarily in sculpture and installation, her work operates as large-scale realms built in relation to bodies of research which concern archaeology and the natural environments objects are excavated from.
Find out moreEmily Binks
Emily Binks (she/her) is a Wakefield-based artist, creative practitioner and teacher who has been an Art House Studio Holder since 2015.
Binks’ artworks predominantly manifest as, but are not limited to, sculptural forms or installations, which examine the notion of ‘home’. She explores ideas using mixed media including reclaimed, discarded furniture, neon and materials often associated with temporary shelter construction.
Find out moreEmily Ryalls
Emily Ryalls is an artist working with photography and performance to create spaces and works on the themes of connection and female representation.
Ryalls’ practice blurs the lines between a divided photographer/subject relationship, creating meaningful and collaborative works that prompt conversation on the role of photography as a non-exploitive means of co-production and connection.
Find out moreEmma Rutherford
Emma Rutherford is a graphic designer who’s spent fifteen plus years immersed in the world of packaging and brand design, around seven years ago she decided to start the adventure of working as a freelance designer.
During her career, Emma has worked with multiple prestigious brands and clients, clinching three DBA awards in the process for her work within the drinks industry.
Find out moreHannah Way
Hannah Way is a freelance ceramicist and maker based in Wakefield. She specialises in functional homeware pieces which are thrown on the wheel, incorporating traditional methods of pottery with a contemporary twist.
Hannah’s work focuses mostly on form and colour, creating beautiful and functional pieces with a set colour palette.
Find out moreHelen O’Sullivan
Helen O’Sullivan is an established Fashion Designer, specialising in Womenswear with expertise in soft woven and jersey wear, embroidery and embellishments.
After graduating in Fashion Studies from The University of Derby in 2001, she became a finalist at Graduate fashion week in Shoreditch, London, acclaimed by the late Alexander McQueen.
Find out moreHelen Thomas
Helen Thomas is a Yorkshire-based artist who works predominantly with painting and drawing. Thomas’s work explores responses to plants in the environment. Her practice includes field and studio work, alongside educational and collaborative projects.
Thomas has been a Studio Holder at The Art House since 2016.
Find out moreJake Mullins
Jake Mullins is a painter who depicts realistic still-life compositions of private and public interiors capturing the small, beautiful details of everyday life.
Mullins uses photography and drawing as a process for documenting spaces within the public sphere, working from this research enables him to focus more on colour, shape and perspective as well as showcase areas often overlooked in today’s fast-paced world.
Find out moreJim Souper
Jim Souper is a photographer who is informed and inspired by his love of the natural landscape and his interest in landscape history. His images convey mood and emotion and often reveal something of relationship humans have with the landscape.
In recent years Souper has developed a mindful, contemplative approach to photography. He makes time to be present in the moment, to notice what is around him and how it makes him feel.
Find out moreJohn Mayson
John Mayson is a Wakefield-based artist and educator with a passion for sculpture, video production and working with young people, museums, galleries and heritage sites.
Mayson believes that the way to develop interesting artistic experiences, particularly with young people, is vital to focus on exploring and experimenting with different materials and processes, allowing for reflection and creative problem-solving.
Find out moreKirstie Williams
Kirstie Williams is a designer and printmaker. She primarily works with screen printing processes for textiles and paper products such as tea towels, pouches, lampshades, wall hangings, cards and prints, which she sells online and at local makers markets.
Sustainability plays a strong role in Williams’ design process, which is influenced by 1950s surface pattern, creating bold, abstract and geometric patterns.
Find out moreLucy Wright
Lucy Wright is an artist based in Leeds, UK. Her practice sits at the intersection of folklore and activism, often using as source material her 10+ years of cited research into lesser-known contemporary and female-led folk customs.
Wright’s work is concerned with exploring folk as an agent for resistance and change—speaking to the culture we create for ourselves and its radical potential.
Find out moreMary Duggan
Mary Duggan is an artist, jeweller and founder of Contrary Mary Designs.
Duggan creates Silver jewellery embellished with touches of 22ct gold. Inspired by organic forms and textures, her designs echo leaves, pebbles and shells. Often her pieces use patterns and fractal forms- the mathematical expressions that produce flowing, organic patterns that relate to the natural world and invite personal reflection.
Find out moreMichelle Duxbury
Michelle Duxbury is an artist from Leeds, with a studio practice based in Wakefield. She is currently undertaking a PhD by Practice at The University of Leeds.
Her practice is intermedia and interdisciplinary, including, but not limited to, embroidery, moving image, sound and immersive installation work. Combining multiple sensory experiences, embedded with accessibility, allows her to interrogate the in/accessibility created by traditional hierarchies in visual art.
Find out moreNaomi Aderonke
Naomi Aderonke is a multidisciplinary narrative-led artist, based in Wakefield. Their work is influenced by their lived experiences as a Black, Northern-born artist.
At their core, Aderonke is a storyteller whose work is deeply informed by history, folklore, horror and historical cultural points. Currently, they primarily work in lino printing, ceramics, screenprinting,
and digital arts.
Nicholas Vaughan
Nicholas Vaughan is a visual artist with a multidisciplinary practice incorporating sculpture, drawing, and installation. He often develops fictional texts to illustrate and compliment his artwork.
Based in Wakefield, Vaughan’s practice is an exploration of social issues with a particular interest in communities and how they are represented.
Find out moreRanya Abdulateef
Ranya Abdulateef is a Wakefield-based artist who works predominantly with textiles and printmaking, under the artistic name ‘Rumanh’, translating as ‘pomegranate’ in Arabic.
Born in Iraq, and raised in the United Arab Emirates, she studied fashion and textile design at Wakefield College and has been a Studio Holder since 2019 as part of the Studio of Sanctuary Programme.
Find out moreRhubarb Design House
Rhubarb Design House is a Wakefield-based creative studio specialising in graphic design, illustration and visual identity.
Founded by Alex McIntosh and James Lodge, Rhubarb Design House collaborates with organisations who understand the important role that design plays in enhancing audience experiences.
Find out moreSam Metz
Sam Metz is an artist who explores the concept of ‘neuroqueering’. This term refers to the act of challenging societal norms that are hostile towards non-normative neurodivergent individuals.
Their practice investigates and responds to the premise of subverting dominant structures that remain confrontational to neurodivergent bodies and minds.
Find out moreSeaglass Collective
Seaglass Collective delivers exciting arts projects exclusively for adopted children, young people and their care givers across Yorkshire.
Their projects allow adopted children and young people to take part in creative activities in a supportive environment where they can build their self-esteem, creativity, communication, imagination, sense of play and confidence in a supportive environment.
Find out moreSeanna Doonan
Seanna Doonan is an artist specialising in mural art and illustration, whilst her passion lies in the creation of historical and socio-political pieces.
Coming from a family of folk musicians, Doonan grew up listening to and singing songs about mining, industrial strikes and other historical and social struggles. It is these stories and experiences which form the basis for much of her work.
Find out moreStella Baraklianou
Stella Baraklianou is an interdisciplinary artist who brings together the materials and processes of craft, textiles, photography and sculpture. She creates site-specific immersive installations that reflect the current post-digital era.
Baraklianou’s practice is influenced by her personal experiences of travel and migration, and is often layered with multiple cultural references.
Find out moreSunshine Child
Sunshine Child is the brand and work of artist Abbie Brewer, stirring joy into her work by depicting emotions we’re all familiar with in our everyday lives and bringing them to our everyday objects.
Sunshine Child hopes to keep the playful child within people alive with her distinctive genderless characters, honing in on universal elements of the human experience in abstract, colourful and unapologetically playful ways.
Find out moreTony Wade
Tony Wade explores the emotional impact landscapes can have on humanity. He believes that our interactions and relationships with landscape, both urban and rural, can provide magical experiences, only if we look.
To date Wade has created over 200 installations and exhibitions across the UK, including Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth Wakefield, Nostell Priory and many more.
Find out moreWill Sharp
Will Sharp is a contemporary jeweller, taking insperation from mid-century design classics and remoulding them into abstract forms of Jewellery.
Will has a multidisiplinary approach to his process which involves CAD design, 3D printing and precious metal casting along with hand fabrication. His work focuses on developing jewellery efficiently and
responsibly, often using plant based, renewable PLA as an alternative to plastic.
One to One Development Trust and Dreaming Methods
One to One Development Trust is an award-winning arts organisation that uses cutting-edge digital media to work with communities, organisations and partners to produce innovative immersive projects.
Dreaming Methods is an award-winning and internationally renowned studio that creates immersive and compelling fiction experiences through digital art and games, with a core focus on reimagining writing and literacy.
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