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The Yorkshire Dales

Northern exposures

Photographer Mark Denton tells Sarah Freeman about his mission to capture the beauty of the Yorkshire landscape.

Work of Haroon Mirza

Art that looks at form and function

Former Northern Art Prize winner Haroon Mirza’s new installation is about to be unveiled at The Hepworth Wakefield. Jon Cronshaw met him.

Workmen hang two Gideon Tapestries at Hardwick Hall

Video: Gideon Tapestries rehung at Hardwick Hall video

A TEAM of scaffolders were called in to a National Trust property to oversee the re-hanging of two of the Gideon tapestries, recently returned from conservation.

Former firefighter Leanne Owen makes stuffed animal heads out of fabric.

Creative thinking leads Leanne to a new vocation

Being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease meant Leanne Owen had to give up the firefighting job she loved, but as Catherine Scott discovered, she has found something just as fulfilling.

Emma Stothard with her Swaledale sheep sculptures

My animal kingdom

Fifteen years ago, Emma Stothard was an art teacher with a dream of being a sculptor. Now her works grace a Michelin-star restaurant, the grounds of stately homes and, at the end of the month, two Chelsea Flower Show gardens. Sarah Freeman reports.

Artist Julian Stair holding one of his pots

Dying art reveals body of evidence

A new exhibition by potter Julian Stair opens at York St Mary’s today exploring the rituals of death. Yvette Huddleston spoke to the artist.

Iwona Blazwick

Force of nature

She has been tipped to take over the Tate, so what’s Iwona Blazwick doing curating an exhibition in a Yorkshire stately home? Sarah Freeman finds out.

Iwona Blazwick

Sensuous sadness of artist’s sculpture

A new exhibition of the work of Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn is about to open at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Jon Cronshaw reports.

Artist Ashley Jackson gives inspiration to school pupils from London, on the hills above Holmfirth.

Video: Ashley Jackson gives London kids a lesson in Yorkshire landscape art video

THE moorland landscape above Holmfirth was a classroom with a difference as artist Ashley Jackson became teacher for a day.

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Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs, with some early images from the collection and Brian Liddy, Collections Access Manager at the National Media Museum, browses through one of Francis Frith's collection of photographs housed in museum's archive. Below: Wood Exchange in Bradford taken nearly 150 years ago.

Moments in time: precious archive puts world of our forefathers back into focus video

The National Media Museum has one of the biggest and most important photographic collections in the world. Chris Bond finds out more.

Photographer Brian Duffy and his son Chris.  Below: Brian Duffy's photographs of David Bowie.

Starman who shot the ’60s

Sheena Hastings reports on a photographer whose legacy was almost lost and his collaborations with David Bowie.

Bust of Albert Einstein by Sir Jacob Epstein

Einstein captured in bronze as he fled

A sculpture of Albert Einstein is on display in Leeds. Jon Cronshaw reports on the remarkable true story that led to its creation.

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