12th – 21st SEPTEMBER 2025
Wirksworth invites you to join us for a 10 day celebration of the arts with a mix of music, performance and visual arts.
The town transforms into a huge gallery for the weekend of the 13th & 14th Sept 2025
Homes, gardens & public spaces across the town are thrown open for over a hundred and forty artists to exhibit their work.
Events for all the family
A programme of live music, drama and film presented in venues across the town.
Wirksworth offers an artist time and space to think and create
A cottage and workspace in Wirksworth are provided for an artist to create a new body of work to exhibit at the Festival..
Ways that you can take part in the festival.
Open your home to an artist
The Art Trail is always looking for new hosts so if you have a room or a garden you could offer as a venue we’d love to hear from you…
Show your work on The Art Trail
The Festival welcomes applications from local, regional and national contemporary artists and makers. Work is selected on quality and suitability for our non-gallery spaces…
We rely on our army of local volunteers
The Festival couldn’t exist without our fabulous band of volunteers. We’re always looking for new recruits and you don’t have to work every day – just do what you can…
Paul Smith, one of the Artist exhibiting at the 2024 Festival Arts Trail has lost the contact information for one of his customers, Christine Prime. Who ordered one of his sculptures. If anyone knows her could you please pass on this message to her and ask to make...
The Trustees of the Wirksworth Festival were shocked and saddened to hear the news of the death of Tracey Meek this week in a car accident. Tracey was a regular exhibitor at the Festival, with her bright abstract work. She was a delight to work with over the Trail...
A major new sculptural sound installation by Wirksworth Festival's Artist in Residence 2023, Feral Practice, draws inspiration from Wirksworth’s annual Clypping ceremony to create a community of hybrid Rock.Plant.Human people coming together to collectively embrace...