Ric Woolrich Exhibiting at ArtBomb 15-30 November 2025 Under the dim glow of pub lights, a ritual plays out: familiar, messy, and deeply human. Just Another Saturday Night is a black-and-white photographic series documenting nightlife in a single pub in Doncaster, England, The Queens Craft House , but it could be any pub in any town. These spaces become both refuge and stage, where people gather week after week to reconnect, perform, escape, and endure. Shot using flash and a wide-angle lens, the images exaggerate facial expressions and body language, amplifying the tension between outer energy and inner emotion. On the surface there is laughter, dancing, and intimacy. But look closer and subtler narratives appear: repetition, emotional fatigue, and isolation within the crowd. The series celebrates grassroots venues as vital cultural lifelines. These spaces are more than backdrops; they are where friendships are made, identities performed, and a sense of community quietly sustained. In a time when such venues face increasing economic pressure, the work pays tribute to their resilience and necessity. Influenced by British social documentary traditions, including the work of Chris Coekin and Chris Killip , and the raw intimacy of Nan Goldin , the series explores themes of social survival, post-pandemic recovery, and the complexity of being together. It reflects on how joy and loneliness coexist, how sociability is sometimes worn like armour, and how we use routine to navigate uncertainty. Just Another Saturday Night invites viewers to recognise these scenes from their own lives. It is not just a record of a night out, but a reflection on how we gather, cope, and search for belonging again and again, in places that ask nothing of us but to show up. instagram | facebook

Isa Suarez Isa Suarez by Paskal Clerc A Living Songbook of Doncaster A solo live-set combining song, rap and performance art — Time Well Sung  is an exploration of freedom, nature, and the elusive fabric of time that holds them both. Through voice, percussion, and electronics, Suarez will perform up-beat songs and intricate soundscapes where time isn’t linear — it stretches and curves, like rivers in wild terrain. Part provocation and part performance, Time Well Sung  invites us to consider freedom not just as escape, but as presence: a way of being connected to the world. Nature becomes both metaphor and medium for this kind of deliverance. What if the most meaningful use of time isn't to fill it — but to feel it? To let it open us to a deeper connection with the land, with each other and with our inner wildness?

Fatima Alaiwat 7–18 October 2025: Artbomb, Doncaster Artist Fatima Alaiwat will undertake a research residency in Doncaster, exploring how we might deepen our ways of listening to rivers, to landscapes, and to the more-than-human worlds that shape and sustain us. Working closely with the River Don, and supported by Don Catchment Rivers Trust (DCRT) and Artbomb, this process-based exploration asks: how might we learn, relearn and unlearn to truly listen to a river? What practices might help us attune to environmental multitudes, kinships, ancient histories and possible futures? The residency will unfold through sensory and relational approaches, foregrounding listening as a practice of attention, care and reciprocity. The work invites us to step away from the noise and disconnection of dominant ways of living, and towards ways of being that are cyclical, poetic and responsive. The title, Pin Back Tha Lug ' Oles , a colloquial northern phrase meaning “listen up”, speaks to this call. As Simon Topham notes: “It carries a note of urgency and a distinctly northern sense of place. It implies someone is about to tell a significant story- one that everyone, from communities to policymakers, needs to hear.” Rooted in feminine modalities and attuned to cycles over time, Fatima Alaiwat’s practice engages sensory entry points such as composting, foraging, walking and cooking to activate relational processes with the more-than-human world. Outcomes have included writing, installations, food events and workshops, all emerging from an embodied practice of listening. The residency will culminate in a public opening at Artbomb in the final days.

Ray Lee Experience the installation 10am-4pm from 15th August—25th August @ Unitarian Church, 60a Hall Gate, Doncaster DN1 3PB A sound installation by British composer and artist Ray Lee, is a whirling, spinning spectacle of sight and sound. You will wander transfixed among a field of tall metal tripods rigged with rotating arms, each equipped with a pair of tone generators and two LED lights. These individually tuned sirens emit pulsing drones while the illuminated tips trace fiery patterns in rapidly circling trajectories. Siren  produces alarming sounds for alarming times: hypnotically intense but also strangely soothing, like a celestial choir of harmonic overtones. Immersed in this electrifying environment, you will surrender to the alluring spell of a unique sonic and visual delight. I've loved showing Siren as part of ArtBomb. Siren is an artwork that is very important to me, I've taken it to some amazing places all over the world and it's been seen and experienced by thousands of people. The amazing Unitarian Church space in Doncaster is now one of my favourite spaces to have presented the work. Photography: Guido Mencari @ London Spill Festival

Beats & Pieces Tickets Beats & Pieces is proud to present EMOM @ ArtBomb , a special night of alternative & left-field live electronic music as part of Doncaster's annual ArtBomb Festival. Join us for a specially curated selection of artists, playing 30 minute sets in the regular style of the electronic music open mic scene, that is rapidly spreading across the country, and now internationally too! Performing at the Unitarians Church behind the ArtBomb Hub at 60 Hall Gate and entry is FREE — as is everything during the festival. This event is BYO. Acts confirmed: Valentich, Pulselovers, Really Hot Fork, Jackhno, PuffinPulse, DeerFace, Gloop and Yorkshire Modular Society. Plus special guest and compere Martin Christie (also performing as A23a). PulseLovers Instagram: @pulselovers PulseLovers has been an active project since 2015. Influences come from 70s / 80s German and UK electronic, post punk and experimental music, childhood filtered memories and a sense of place. Albums are produced using analogue synthesisers, percussion, field recordings and tape loops. Collaborative contributions come from friends and allies utilising more organic instrumentation (strings, skins and wind). DeerFace Instagram: @_deerface DeerFace is the musical project of Sophie James , an Australian-born, UK-based multimedia artist. Now based in Sheffield, she draws on the wild biodiversity of New South Wales, the rugged landscape of the Peak District, and the stark beauty of dystopian sci-fi and brutalist architecture. Her sound merges electronic and organic textures into brooding, immersive sonic landscapes where nature, industry and the metaphysical collide. Valentich Instagram: @valentich_official Valentich combines a mix of post-rock soundscapes, melodic techno and instrumental darkwave, producing rich, multi-layered music, referencing the likes of Tycho, Jon Hopkins, 65dos and Boards of Canada amongst other influences. Valentich has gigged regularly over the past 8 years, with highlights including Worcester Music Festival, Sparkle and Cable Festival alongside supporting John Mouse, Attrition and Beastial Mouths. Valentich's extensive back catalogue can be found on Bandcamp. A23a: Broken. Spoken. Words. And Sound. Instagram: @martchristie A23a is a new collaborative project by Claire Robertson and Martin Christie. The aim of the project is to carve up and alter spoken word through technologies that were originally intended for creating music. The meaning of the words and phrases become part of a fragmented drifting soundscape involving the human voice and textural melody. Claire’s background in performance art makes this more than a listening experience and provides a powerful interpretation for the emerging meanings. Martin’s role to create and carve up the sounds is informed by his background in improvisation. PuffinPulse Instagram: @bionisamp PuffinPulse by A.H Smith from Castleford, now living in Bridlington, is a creative performance featuring; Portable modular synthesisers, EMF noise, DIY electronics, Field recording, cassette / tape recording. Inspired by ambient electronic outdoor meditations, nature, birdwatching and recording, tides, coast, wind and weather. Recording along the sand dunes... Sounds and video, field recordings and synth textures. Explore PuffinPulse titles, like Tankerspill , Dirty Wave , No Fish to Fry , Bottom Trawler and Sandeels , which are often described as the cornerstone of the east coast marine ecosystem. Really Hot Fork Really Hot Fork is a casual EMOM artist from Wakefield who plays a blend of acid, breaks and whatever happens to come out of his suitcase full of knobs and sliders. First on the EMOM scene in 2024 he found his tribe meeting other local synth nerds in a board game cafe playing animal noises to each other. Jackhno Instagram: @jackhno_dancepunk Jackhno is the stage name of Jennifer Rozenfelds , who is a gender-fluid, non-binary electronic musician and sonic artist. She concentrates on playing live but has recently also been developing her production skills as part of an effort to record and release her electronica, acid house, alternative dance & electropunk in response to fans' demand. Yorkshire Modular Society Instagram: @yorkshiremodularsociety Yorkshire Modular Society is an ethos of creation by way of listening. It is truly formless, without beginning or end, like a great ashen tree beneath the Earth's crust, whose roots penetrate the skies. The artist's trajectory — from classical pianist, to indie band synthesist, electronic artist, and sonic explorer — speaks to the richness of his musical journey, marked by constant exploration and a passion for pushing sonic boundaries. Gloop Instagram: @mindgloop Gloop started out playing in Leeds' dingy breakcore basement scene in the late 2000s under the pseudonym Fandabi Dozy . Laptop sets with cracked copies of everything, lots of crashing and untimely tech failures. When the drugs wore off, they formed the grunge punk band Slowcoaches, looking for other sonic adventures. After 7 years of touring and playing gigs all over the UK and Europe, it was time to get back to writing electronic music.  After a few years harvesting synths, drum machines and samplers, it was a long-time dream fulfilled to be making analogue squelchy acid. Now with several releases under their belt on the label Beat Concern ‘Realistic Dayze’, ‘Acid Concern’, and the latest release ‘Tapeworm’ on VUR, the Gloop sound has evolved into a blend of braindancy groaty classics to full-on squelchy acid techno bangers. Expect a flawless live set to headbang to and feel the acid melt your insides into gloop. DJ Seijn Instagram: @seijn_ Seijn is a producer and DJ crafting liquid drum & bass and techno infused with futuristic soundscapes. Inspired by Detroit techno, funk, soul, and sci-fi, his music blends deep rhythm with cinematic atmosphere. Known for his innovative sound selection and immersive DJ sets, Seijn takes listeners on a journey—pushing genre boundaries while staying rooted in groove and emotion.

Rebecca Smith If the Peatlands could talk, what would they say? The Humberhead Peatlands are one of the rarest and most threatened habitats in the UK. They are amongst the most carbon-rich ecosystems on earth, yet years of land exploitation through the extraction of peat has led to vast quantities of CO2 leaking into the atmosphere. This local landscape embodies the complexity of our interconnectedness and relationship with the natural world, and how we as humans, ultimately affect it. It is up to us to rewrite our relationship to the Peatlands. Through bio recordings from the peat-forming plants on Hadfield Moor, this work playfully gives voice to the living conversations between flora, and converts it into dancing sound and light. Urban Projections  is the work and collaborations of artist, Rebecca Smith. Fusing hand-crafted art-forms with with digital technologies, her work seeks to surprise and engage audiences with it's playful tone and interactivity. Constantly striving and seeking ways to push the boundaries of her discipline, Rebecca creates unique digital experiences.

Chris Dobrowolski “ An image of me in a jam jar trying to make myself look as pretentious as possible. No film here as the results were far too self revealing" I made a few collectible artworks for sale after my show Toy Stories .   They were relatively successful so I was trying to come up with something new. The concept was an AI art consultant that people could buy and hang on their wall. They would be amused by the irony of the art subject dictating good taste to the buyer. I thought everyone would want an artwork that said nasty condescending remarks about the quality of art in their home. Apparently they don't — there was very little interest. The artwork also took too long to make so the price was going to be prohibitively expensive when trying to sell it out of an old suitcase after a show. The idea was consequently shelved. Until now... Built entirely in my garden shed using a TV in a wheelbarrow, toys, a car battery and a cheap Donald Trump AI app. I have created an opportunity to have an audience with the president of the United States of America.  Trump philosophies on art and the mercurial nature of truth.

Linda Cassels I’ve Got the Power: The Performance is a symbolic gesture reminiscent of the UK's official Budget Day “red box," but reimagined in Linda’s own hands. Linda enters public space with a bold red briefcase bearing the MOF/CIIR designation. This act becomes a moment of action: an artist using their body and voice to challenge the silent architecture of power, claiming space in a city founded on economic inequality, colonial legacies, and bureaucratic exclusion.

ArtBomb'25 | 6pm-8pm | Sat 16 August ​ Hard | Art  will deliver the inaugural Hey! Festival , a spoken word event bringing local and world-renowned poets, including none other than Salena Godden , together to write for a better future & develop new work to be performed in Doncaster. Hey! Festivals are a writer-led Hard | Art initiative. Pop-up micro literary festivals which go where other festivals fear to tread. Collaborative, dynamic, agile and inventive — they put emphasis on listening to our audience. Hard | Art curate, in collaboration with local venues, half-day literary festivals which offer a line-up of both locally and nationally known writers, reading and talking about the issues of today (climate, democracy, social justice and cultural change). They are receptive as much as creative. Setting up stalls where people with different views can argue and debate anything from climate to the price of cheese. The Fête of Britain is on a mission to meet the people who really run Britain. The people who roll their sleeves up every day and do the hard graft. Every place Hard | Art stop they want to build connection and the possibility for future collaboration as the people collectively bring to life the new Britain we all so desperately want to see.

What is it like to be in a work, to be part of a creative process? In this following writing the artist/facilitator and co founder of Artbomb, Sacha Gray gives voice to the feelings and emotions that she felt when working on The Bare Project . An authentic voice that charts the process of the project, her role in it, and the impact she witnessed. The Kitchen Is Always the Heart is the name of the project created and delivered by The Bare Project , a theatre and interactive arts company as part of The People’s Palace Of Possibility . I knew a little of The Bare Project before I started hanging around these guys as they brought their kitchen and collection of stories and ideas of a utopian future to life in the space at ArtBomb. I had signed up to be a palace citizen in The People’s Palace of Possibility during lockdown as their project had moved online and via the post. I was intrigued then by their unique way of engaging and quirky design of paraphernalia that arrived through the letterbox. It was fun and exciting and I shared the experience with the group of kids that I worked with at the time.It was really interesting to see that the kids had never really been asked the question “what is a fairer, kinder future and how could we make this happen?” Or maybe it's not that they hadn't been asked that question but more likely they hadn't been given the space to really explore and discuss or been sincerely listened to and heard? So when I learned there was another phase of this project at the Artbomb shop I was really excited to meet the team in person. They arrived, I hung around a little and watched as they built the install into the shop window. The team welcomed me and I listened to them as they worked things out and supported each other if needed. I was part of their check-ins each day as we sat with a cuppa and had space to voice any concerns about our own tasks, or just how we were feeling that day and I soon began to realise and experience what they were all about. They have a wonderful micro culture of care and kindness in the way they work together as well as the people they come into contact with and it was palpable. It was more than just being nice and getting things done, I felt a sense of the utopian ideals they were advocating for, human care before productivity and capital and a strong sense of value on individual creative processes. This worked. Shit got done and done well. My job was to create signage for the open day where people were invited in for a meal, conversation and to really think about what food justice means to them. This space to just create within the setting of the buzz of creativity around me was lovely and slowed my mind down. People moved around and through the space and I listened and joined in convos. I witnessed worlds opened up on peoples faces as they spoke about their memories and experiences and I thought how this is how people understand what is important to them and what they want to take into the future and what they want/need to leave behind if we are to co create an essential and new way of living. That reconnection to self in those moments felt like lots of small but deep stirrings of hope and energy for a better, a radically better, future. Job done! But job is not done, because we need that energy to keep burning and the hope to keep building strength. The Bare Project will continue to build the rooms of The People’s Palace of Possibility in various places and spaces, but for the next 4 weeks we have the window at the ArtBomb to keep us inspired, stirred up, asking the right questions about our future and provoking imaginings particularly around the future of food. I look forward to seeing the next space created for The Peoples Palace Of Possibility . It is both gentle and powerful work that they bring, but it must be said that the relational way they go about their practice is just as impactful to the people they come into contact with.