Middlesbrough Art Week 2026

Middlesbrough Art Week is an annual contemporary arts festival held in the post industrial town of Middlesbrough, located in the North-East of England.Akihide Monna / Alex Culshaw / Alia Gargum / Ancient Methods / Andy Holden / Annabel McCourt / Anne Colvin / Anonymous Artist Association / Bobby Benjamin / Bog Heartsease / Broken English Club / Catherine Bertola / Charlie Murphy / Chloe Stevenson / Claire Ong / Cody Sowerby / Daisy Collingridge / Daisy Dickinson / Daniel Carey / Deb Covell / E-da Kazuhisa / Eleanor Jones / Erin Dickson / Errol Theunissen / Eva Ginvalde / Foundation Press / Garth Gratrix / Georgia D'Silva / Gordon Dalton / Grimm Grimm / Headless Horseman / Izzie Beirne / Jeremy Deller / John Ayscough / Julian Micallef / Junior Durrani / Ka Bird / Kate Stobbart / Kathryn Lunt / Katie Schwab / Katie Tomlinson / Kerry Ann Chappell / Kerry Baldry / Kitty McKay / Larry Achiampong / Lauren Godfrey / Leoni Dingwall / Liaqat Rasul / Liberty Hodes / Liz Wilson / Lucy Joyce / Luke Beech / Margaret Tait / Matthew Roche / Mia Wilkinson / Morag Myerscough / Nel Hume / Phase Fatale / Phil Gatenby / Rachel Clerke / Rachel Deakin / Sandra Lahire / Sarah Cooney / Saundra Pearl Sharp / Sawdust / Sidequest / Simon Poulter / Sky Hopinka / Sum Place / Susan Loughlin / Susan Jones / Wes Baggaley / Whippet it Up / Zilan KuzuMiddlesbrough Art Week was born in 2017 (formerly known as Middlesbrough Art Weekender) MAW is the result of too much coffee and late night conversation. It’s grown to become the largest annual contemporary arts festival in the North East, an event that champions Middlesbrough’s heritage, industrial past and creative scene, transforming the town centre into a creative hub. Middlesbrough is the creative gem of the North East, and MAW shouts about this with a town takeover every year. Over the years we’ve invited artists to make the Transporter Bridge sing, installed a giant drawing ball at Middlesbrough Town Hall, and brought a dystopian model village to Centre Square, turned Church House into a beating heart and an old bank into an art gallery, flew a giant inflatable pig in from Japan and grew an wild meadow with 200 school kids.