Exhibitions and Events
| Gallery | Artist | Dates |
| Upstairs & Mosaic Gallery | Beryl Robinson – The Sinister Traveller | 22nd August – 4th October |
| The Crossley Gallery | Dean Clough Artists Biennial | 10th October – 3rd January |
| The Photography Gallery | Halifax Photographic Society | 10th October – 7th February |
| Upstairs & Mosaic Gallery | Roy Holt Wall Features | 10th October – 22nd November |
| Focus Wall | Amma Ji Trail Blazers | 17th August – 20th September |
| Upstairs & Mosaic Gallery | Heather Boxhall The Stuff of Colour | 28th November – 24th January |
BERYL ROBINSON – THE SINISTER TRAVELLER
THE UPSTAIRS & MOSAIC GALLERIES 22ND AUGUST – 4TH OCTOBER
Beryl began painting at the age of 76, producing more than a hundred works in an intuitive outpouring that transformed her home into a makeshift studio. ‘The Sinister Traveller’ brings together the paintings she made during the early months of the Covid‑19 pandemic, when uncertainty and fear shaped daily life in ways that still affect many people. Though entirely self‑taught, her imagery has prompted comparisons to Blake, Chagall, Picasso, Gauguin and Stanley Spencer — not as imitation, but as evidence of a visual language formed instinctively and with a sense of compulsion.
Seen now, these works carry both the immediacy of their moment and the weight of everything that followed. Across the series, Beryl returns to a small set of recurring motifs — figures, creatures and forms that stand in for threat, vulnerability, contagion and survival — creating a symbolic vocabulary that gives coherence to her improvisatory approach.
“My paintings are strange, I know, but they show the foreboding I felt at the start of the pandemic and the virus in its many threatening forms.”
Visitors to her home‑studio describe the sheer volume and urgency of the work — a late‑life eruption of images that defies expectation.
DEAN CLOUGH ARISTS BIENNIAL
THE CROSSLEY GALLERY 10TH OCTOBER 2026 – 3RD JANUARY 2027
The Biennial celebrates this community in all its breadth. ACDC artists exhibit regularly in the Dean Clough galleries, teach within ACDC’s Art School, mentor emerging practitioners, give talks, and open their studios to the public each year. Their work shapes the cultural life of the site daily; the Biennial brings that energy together, offering a snapshot of the creativity that continues to define Dean Clough.
Artists Featured –
Jeffrey Andrews
Doug Binder
Linda Brill
Jo Brown
Natasha Elizabeth Brown
Peter Chapple
Sam Clayton
Ric Coulson
Frank Darnley
Pete Defty
Fiona Edmondson
Josephine Gornall
Jo Gorner
Marcus Jack
Helen Jones
Kirsty McDonald
Chris Mould
Claire Murray
Nicola Newton
Andy Plant
Kim Robertson
Sue Ripley
Barbara Sykes
Helen Trevisiol
Dashamir Varqarri
HALIFAX PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY – SHOWCASE
THE PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY 10TH OCTOBER 2026 – 7TH FEBRUARY 2027
Halifax Photographic Society is a long‑established, friendly group of photography enthusiasts, now over a century old. Our members share a passion for image‑making, from Calderdale subjects to work created further afield.
We’ve supported many local events and collaborated with Calderdale Council on exhibitions at venues such as Bankfield Museum and the Smith Art Gallery. This show highlights our commitment to photographic prints in an increasingly digital world.
The exhibition brings together a wide mix of members’ work — wildlife, macro, portraits, landscapes, still life, fine art, sports and analogue photography. We hope it inspires visitors to explore photography themselves and perhaps join the Society.
HEATHER BOXALL – THE STUFF OF COLOUR
THE UPSTAIRS & MOSAIC GALLERIES
28TH NOVEMBER – 24TH JANUARY
Painter and printmaker Heather Boxall is fundamentally concerned with the “stuff of colour”—how it operates visually, emotionally, and cognitively. Neuroscientist Anya Hurlbert notes that colour allows us to conceptualise and categorise the world. Boxall’s work embraces its elusive nature: the fact that colour remains a deeply personal possession, constructed entirely within our individual minds.
Central to this exploration is Boxall’s ongoing project, Colour Standards (initiated in 2018). The series references the 1951 British Colour Council Dictionary of Colour Standards, a historic guide featuring 240 silk-woven swatches originally designed to provide consistency in the textile industries. In Boxall’s hands, this rigid dictionary becomes a springboard for exploring cultural memory and subjective perception.
This exhibition presents her systematic interrogation of colour through three further distinct series: Ugandan Tally: A series translating the vibrant plumage of birds observed during a trip to Uganda. It is here that Boxall begins to actively tabulate and categorise her subject, turning raw observation into an ordered visual lexicon. Heart of Darkness:Paintings tracking and isolating Joseph Conrad’s intense, atmospheric use of descriptive colour in his classic novel. Playground of Colour: Works reacting to Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (first published in 1814), exploring early attempts to order the natural world.
About the Artist
Born in Gravesend, Kent, Boxall studied Fine Art at Winchester School of Art (1981) before completing an MA in Printmaking at Bradford School of Art. She now lives and works in West Yorkshire.