Yorkshire Arts in 2015

Yorkshire will offer holidaymakers who enjoy the Arts a bumber year in 2015.

Venues across Yorkshire are staging a number of stand-out exhibitions this coming year.

Listed below are some highlights to whet your Arts appetite!

The Hepworth, Wakefield

The UKs finest contemporary gallery with artists from all over the world lining up for exhibition space.

Two shows in 2015 will be knock-outs.

Firstly, the Hepworth will host work by the acclaimed American artist and feminist Lynda Benglis in February.

The exhibition includes works from her fifty year career.

And then between July - November, the Hepworth will stage the first large-scale exhibition of Anthony Caro’s work since the sculptor died in 2013.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is opening this year with "Song for Coal" by artists Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson.

Running from January 10th - April 19th, and exhibiting in the newly restored Eighteenth-century St Bartholomew’s Chapel, the exhibition will explore the physical and cultural properties of coal - a defining Yorkshire resource!

Leeds Art Gallery

Leeds Art Gallery’s "Cross Currents" exhibition, draws together works of French art and includes work by Derain, Bonnard, Sisley, Pissarro, and Courbet.

And then in October, the British Art Show comes to Leeds to introduce a new generation of Britain's finest Artists to the Yorkshire public.

The Graves Gallery, Sheffield

From January to May 2015, the Graves Gallery is hosting a major retrospective of the work of Stanley Royle; Sheffields favourite Artist.

The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

The Millennium is hosting the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, on tour from the National Portrait Gallery.

Coming this Spring, the exhibition includes 60 photographic portraits.

Bils & Rye, Nunnington

Closer to home, Bils & Rye in the village of Nunnington will be hosting work by Myer Halliday, James Hakes' ceramics from Cumbria, Rebecca Appleby's ceremics from Leeds, oil paintings by Jack Banister and Laura Rich, and turned wood and furniture by David Wood.