Make Yourself at Home is a landmark exhibition for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, weaving together newly commissioned photography and rich archival material to present a vibrant portrait of life in Bradford.

Led by New Focus: Bradford Young Curators, this exhibition is the culmination of 18 months of collaboration, mentorship, research, and community engagement. Working in close partnership with the team at Impressions, the Young Curators have been involved in every stage of the process: from selecting artists and shaping themes, to working directly with local communities and cultural organisations. Together, they have crafted an exhibition that reconciles personal experience with collective memory and celebrates identity, belonging, and what it means to call a place home.

Central to the exhibition are five new photography commissions offering a portrait of contemporary Bradford. These include three Bradford-based photographers, Laura Mate, Nathan McGill and Karol Wyszynski, and two national photographers, Anselm Ebulue and Tori Ferenc. The artists bring diverse perspectives shaped by their own backgrounds, practices and connections to the city. Some are born-and-bred Bradfordians, others are artists whose work centres on migration, memory, and the rituals of everyday life.

Through their photography, the artists explore themes of kinship, heritage, identity and belonging. They capture both quiet domestic moments and joyous social gatherings that make up the fabric of family life in all its forms, both the families we are born to and the families we choose.

Curated and Produced by Impressions Gallery and New Focus: Bradford Young Curators.

Commissioned by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. Image credit: Wedding Day of Barbara and Colin Clayton at St Johns Church, Great Horton, Bradford on 22 June 1974, courtesy of Barbara Clayton.

Opening Information

Mon: CLOSED
Tue: 10:00 - 17:00
Wed: 10:00 - 17:00
Thu: 10:00 - 17:00
Fri: 10:00 - 17:00
Sat: 10:00 - 17:00
Sun: CLOSED