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A landscape photo of blue snowy mountains with a cloudy sky above and a lake in the foreground. A line of green trees separate the mountains and lake. A landscape photo of blue snowy mountains with a cloudy sky above and a lake in the foreground. A line of green trees separate the mountains and lake.

Carlos Biggerman, Blue Hour at Arthur Pass, New Zealand © the artist

Carlos Biggerman, Blue Hour at Arthur Pass, New Zealand © the artist

ArtWorks Together International 2026

Sat 24 January - Sun 31 May 2026

Millennium Gallery

ArtWorks Together is an international festival based in Sheffield offering adult artists who have a learning disability, are autistic, or both, the opportunity to showcase their talents. The festival exhibition featured shortlisted works by 70 artists from 21 countries, highlighting the breadth and depth of artistic practice by artists who have a learning disability and autistic artists working internationally today, from South Yorkshire to South Asia. 

 

The exhibition brought together a vibrant and ambitious collection of contemporary work representing innovation and artistic excellence across painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, film and more. The shortlisted artworks span celebrations of colour, nature and other things which bring joy through to explorations of urgent social, political, environmental and cultural themes. Each offered nuanced, vital perspectives that challenge narrow assumptions about who artists are and whose voices are valued.

 

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Millennium Gallery

Arundel Gate

Sheffield

S1 2PP

A landscape photo of blue snowy mountains with a cloudy sky above and a lake in the foreground. A line of green trees separate the mountains and lake.

Carlos Biggerman, Blue Hour at Arthur Pass, New Zealand

© the artist

Exhibition Highlights

  • A painting of a woman floating in water. She is wearing a blue dress that is billowing around her. The water is dark and she is lit from above.

    Alice Bulmer, Oh, There Is Thunder In Our Hearts © the artist

  • A photograph of a paper work. Quills of paper are used to create an abstract face with yellow hair, red skin and a blue eyes. The shapes and features are abstracted but recognizable as a face.

    Debs Roberts, Debs with the yellow hair © the artist

  • A profile portrait painting of a human wearing a hat/headpiece that is shaped like an eagles head. It has a patchwork like feel to it, with different layers of paint building on top of each other.

    Alexis Avlamis, The Warrior © the artist

  • A still life painting depicting a bottle of haig whisky, a basket of fruit and vegetables, on top of a table. The table is strewn with fabrics of different colours: navy blue, light blue, yellow, orange, and white.

    Thirto Mondal, Still life painting © the artist

  • A photograph of an artwork. There is a black hexagon with bleached chlorophyll inside. It looks like sprouting bulbs, but cream. It is photographed against a white background.

    Alexander Lee, Bleached Chlorophyll © the artist

  • A landscape photo of blue snowy mountains with a cloudy sky above and a lake in the foreground. A line of green trees separate the mountains and lake.

    Carlos Biggerman, Blue Hour At Arthur Pass, New Zealand © The Artist

  • A painting depicting lots of different human and humanoid creatures, all painted against a red background. The figures are drawn in a very sketchy way, with black outlines. There are also small bits of black text around the canvas.

    Graham Borkitt, Interstellar Song Contest © the artist

  • A work of digital media depicting a body exploding at the torso. Inside, there are lots of stickers depicting potato smileys, hearts, rainbow, a disco ball, a lighter, a wet floor sign, and some little part bag toys. The face is shown in a similar way, with items replacing the facial features. These include a gameboy colour, mcdonalds fries, a fried egg, lava lamp, nail varnish, a toy dinosaur and an iced coffee. The background is purple and the explosions radiate from the body in silver and holographic colours.

    Gabriel Bennett Lovejoy, Self Portrait (Explosion of Self) © the artist

  • A black and white sculpture of big ben photographed against a white background.

    Mark Wilson, Big Ben © The Artist on Exhibition Carousel Slide

  • A black canvas with different symmetric prints overlaid on it in various colours: pink, orange, yellow, blue, red, green, and white. The prints are reminiscent of kitchen tiles, with beautiful patterns

    Kota Urai, Joy © The Artist

  • An abstract painting of a horse. The horse is shown in colours of pink and red, with a green stomach. The background is in dark green, blue, and orange. Everything is delineated in black.

    Tristan Isabela Martins Da Silva, Horse © The Artist

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