Art by medium Explore the themes Explore art schools Acrylic on canvasArchitectureBronzeCeramicsDrawingFabricFound materialsFresco & Wall PaintingOil on canvasPen & InkPrintmakingReliefSculptureTaxidermyWatercolourWoodAll Explore extinction with birds once hunted for sport and food Why and how did soldiers make ‘trench art’? The intriguing ‘Scarborough ware’ that reveals medieval Scarborough Fair Discover Victorian moustaches through portraits and cup design Can Eileen Agar’s surrealist painting shed light on Lady MacBeth? Life between Ice Ages – hyena teeth from Kirkdale Cave & artwork by Tim Hopgood Explore Roman ‘blacksmith’ pot designs & make your own relief work A bust inspired by Victorian medicine & other works by ceramicist Karen Thompson Stormy Victorian history paintings from the North Yorkshire coast by Robert Ernest Roe Why can we find memento mori in and around Christian churches? The Bombardment of Whitby, 1914, explored by William Scott Hodgson Learn why poppies are for remembrance, with one of the very first Arts and crafts from the Yorkshire workshop of Beatrice Carpenter How did royal memorabilia by Laura Knight mark a constitutional crisis? An Impressionist beach scene from the Yorkshire coast, by Florence Hess This painting reveals the story of the bombardment of Scarborough Teatime at Haworth with the Brontës, & other works by Sonia Lawson The RNLI on the North Yorkshire coast – with Frederick Dade & Robert Ernest Roe What can we learn about past life and beliefs from a hogback stone? A critically-endangered turtle: food, fashion & the travels of Captain Cook Explore why Herbert Royle’s Dales scenes featured on Christmas cards Explore George Soper’s representation of working horses How did Ethel Walker paint Robin Hood’s Bay author Leo Walmsley? ‘Fisher folk’ from Staithes and Robin Hood’s Bay – by Edith Bateson & James Charles A commemorative sculpture of war poet Wilfred Owen by Anthony Padgett Explore composition at Whitby Harbour by Elias Bancroft Explore subject matter from the North York Moors by John Atkinson Find out why this carved gingerbread mould took resilience
