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Coming Soon

Attaining Light
by Mussarat Rahman

TURN UP
Open Exhibition of Bradford Art and Photography

Friday 7th & Saturday 8th November 2025
5pm - 8pm

15th November – 20th December 2025
Tuesday, Friday, Saturday 11am – 3pm

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As part of the BD: is LIT festival, Trapezium's front window will be displaying an installation by Mussarat Rahman:

Attaining Light is a light installation that reflects on the quiet but powerful role of faith and solidarity in sustaining communities through times of uncertainty. At its centre is a handmade illuminated Lotus, symbolising purity, renewal, and transcendence. Radiating with layered light, Attaining Light is both a memorial and a celebration — a testament to endurance, care, and shared spirit.

 

Bradford’s Trapezium Gallery is delighted to present their FOURTH annual Open Exhibition, Turn Up. It is being held at their gallery on Kirkgate in Bradford City centre in the run up to Christmas to compliment the Turner Prize on show at Cartwright Hall and Our Turn, Bradford’s Visual Arts festival which are all taking place at the same time.

The exhibition brings together over 150 artworks by over 80 artists and photographers from across the Bradford district with a whole variety of art forms, including drawing, painting, photography, textiles, crafts, 3D and video.

Pauline Cooke of Trapezium Arts explains: “This is our fourth Open Exhibition for Bradford artists and it goes from strength to strength. We are really proud to be hosting this annual exhibition for local creative people once again, in Bradford’s special year of culture.”

The artwork has been selected from all the creative work submitted to the Online Gallery on Trapezium’s website. People were asked to send their creative endeavours and then these were uploaded to virtual galleries, available for all to view all year round.

Lauren Kelly, who curates the Online Gallery at Trapezium Arts says, “The response to our call out has been amazing. Every year more and more people submit work, with a huge range of work from traditional landscapes to digital collage; and from artists of different backgrounds and of all ages. We have welcomed work from professional artists and enthusiastic beginners alike, showing what a wealth of talent exists in our district.”

Admission to the exhibition is free and much of the artwork is for sale from the artists.

 

 

You can also view the work of local Artists, Photographers and other Creatives work online

 

 

Open, Themed and Artist's Galleries

Trapezium Online Galleries

 

NEW: Seeds Project Gallery

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A Series of Open, Themed and Artist's Galleries of local Bradford's Artists, Photographers and other Creatives.

Open for submissions by all.

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Open Galleries

 

 

Seeds is an online gallery with images planted there for Bradford's Artists, Photographers and other Creatives to use and reinterpret in their own way, creating something new that draws on the existing work.

These new artworks can then be submitted to the growing Seeds gallery, branching out to reseed new and inspiring works of art.

Get Involved

Open Seeds Gallery

 

 

 

 

Streets Ahead

Trapezium Arts and documentary photographer Cath Muldowney, have joined forces for an initiative to regenerate the highstreets in South Bradford, by bringing art to vacant shop windows.

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To keep up to date with what we're doing, follow us on instagram @trapeziumarts

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Trapezium gallery is a voluntary enterprise supporting local Artists, Photographers and other Creatives to show their artwork

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