Summer Exhibition of the North 2025

Artist open call for entries opens 1st March and closes on 30th April 2025. Please click here for rules and entry requirements:

The Summer Exhibition will open at The 1912 Mill at Sunnybank Mills, Leeds on 8th July and run until 10th August.

NEW LIGHT, a charity for the celebration and promotion of the visual arts in the North of England, has three main aims:

• Putting contemporary Northern art on the map – supporting both emerging and established artists in the North of England through the New Light Prize Exhibition.
• Bringing art out of the gallery and into public spaces – through the free lending of the New Light Collection to hospitals, schools, charities and community groups.
• Putting art back on the curriculum whatever your age – education through our Art for All programme – free workshops, talks and activities.