Articles & Updates

Tendresse by Matthew Humphreys started with an artist trying to figure out what to do with 20+ years worth of film footage, decades of intimate family moments captured with a variety of digital and analogue cameras. When an artist exhibits work at ArtBomb for the first time, we invite them to walk across the street and look at the building from a distance. We encourage artists not to read the shop as a conventional white-walled gallery space, but rather to see the entire bui

On 16 April 2026, ArtBomb hosted Beyond the Scroll: Rethinking Socially Engaged Practice, a one-day symposium including art interventions, workshops and an evening social filled with live music. We welcomed over 150 artists, activists, college students and the curious public to a free day of talks, workshops and live interventions exploring how socially engaged practice can reclaim focus and meaning in an age of distraction. As part of our pledge to make bold, boundary-pushin

Anti-Social Housing Agency is a new socially engaged installation by Ciara O’Rourke and Jack Clarke, developed with ArtBomb in Doncaster as part of its Arts & Homelessness programme.

My Home in Doncaster is a documentary film project exploring what it means to call Doncaster home. We're inviting people from all walks of life — whether you've lived here your whole life, moved here recently, come from a migrant background, are seeking asylum, or simply have a story to share.

In August 2025, ArtBomb Festival returned with a weekend of creative disruption, deep reflection, and curated chaos. Last year’s theme — A Meaningful Use of Time — invited artists, audiences, thinkers, communities, and dreamers to slow down and tune in. Time is spoken of like money. We spend it, waste it, try to save it. This commodification of time has roots in the Industrial Revolution, when the sun gave way to the clock as the measure of a working day. That legacy persist

Taking place from 10am-4pm on Thursday 16th April, we're bringing together artists, activists and curious minds to offer a wide range of perspectives on the role that technology plays within contemporary arts practice and our everyday lives, and how this is shifting our understanding of what socially-engaged art practice is, or what it could be.

As you will notice the camera obscura you are in: is a large black box; big enough to walk into, as they have been for hundreds of years; often as with this one it is just a curtained off part of a room, where light can on only come in through one small hole, on one side. In this case window of the gallery shop front into the street. On the opposite side to the small hole is a black stretched cloth: The viewing screen!