The 11th edition of Ones to Watch at Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley selected 40 emerging artists and makers from a record 204 submissions.
The exhibition was open to artists with Yorkshire connections across painting, sculpture, film, photography, ceramics, design and other disciplines.
A wider route into an emerging-artists exhibition
For 2024, eligibility expanded to include artists studying at independent art schools and people leaving alternative forms of arts education, including self-taught practitioners.
The exhibition addressed subjects ranging from politics and the environment to history, culture, sexuality and social issues.
It also formed part of Sunny Bank Mills’ wider effort to give regional artists space to exhibit, sell work and continue developing their practice.
Different ways of describing place and identity
Edd Jones presented three works connected with Hull and the Humber, using acrylic and oil pastel to interpret local landscapes.
Hajab Zainab contributed work shaped by cultural, historical and personal influences after moving from Pakistan to the United Kingdom.
Her practice combined different disciplines and used identity and heritage as points of connection across geographic boundaries.
Ones to Watch used the diversity of those approaches to present emerging practice as something broader than a single educational route or visual style, while maintaining a strong regional focus on Yorkshire.