For the first time, The OffBeat Art Club will present a full exhibition of selected works. Bringing together artists whose work sits somewhere around the edges of folk, outsider and vernacular traditions – but all of them are OffBeat! Many explore place, memory and landscape, with some taking a broader, playful route through these ideas –  all at its weirdest, most wonderful and most inclusive best.

With over 80 artworks on display, the exhibition will present works in a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, textiles, painting, print and sculpture.

This exhibition is an expansive view into the breadth of work emerging from The OffBeat Art Club community, and the contemporary folk art scene. Explore to experience the different ways artists are responding to folk culture today.

OffBeat is a folk club that uses film to explore what it means to be British today. What began as a small screening series has grown into The OffBeat Folk Film Festival, which promotes contemporary filmmakers working with ideas of place, culture and everyday life. In 2026, in partnership with Staffordshire St, OffBeat is also launching The OffBeat Art Club, inviting contemporary artists to submit work for the club’s first visual art exhibition. 

“Staffordshire seeks to disrupt the traditional "white cube" by embracing the spirit of renegade creativity - The OffBeat Art Club exemplifies this! It is a unique celebration of art’s capacity to be rebellious, marvellous, even bizarre and to offer alternative narratives that help us to reevaluate the world around us.” 

Dee Haughney, Artistic Director, Staffordshire St

EXHIBITING ARTISTS INCLUDE:

Carmen Arbós, Elsy Bao, Morgan Bakinowski, Lucie Beeston, Lorella Bianco, Pia Bramley, Kid Buckley, Matteo Cancellieri, Alice Carr, Charlie Chesterman, Miriam Clavane, Milly Cope, Ingrid Corson, Leigh Curtis, Alisha Lucia Davidson, Ruth Faulkner, Tim Foxon, Richard Guest, Ekaterina Gorelova, Josie Hargreaves, Sasha Hay, Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, Daisy Berrisford Hawkes, Rachel Hodgson, Minyue Hu, Casey Jackson, Isla Jones, Abigail Jones, Immie Ruth Jones, Ruby Kester, Kimz Kimz, Gus Langford, Claire Leavey, Molly Lester, Maia Lys, Tess Maudlin, Isobel Manley a.k.a Worn to Threads, Alex Sickling, Neil McNally, Poppy McMurtrie, Alice-Mae Mayall, Phoebe Newlan, Asia Nowicki, Ola Otog, Ana Pallares, Jessica Parnell, Eric Parker, Emma Phillips, Charlie Ratcliffe, SJ Roberts, Eleanor Ryan, Caroline Sandford-Muir, Sapphire Servellon, Luke Stephenson, Richard Todd, Daisy Tortuga, Lucy Walker, Yoanna Walden, Annie Ward, Tianxi Wang, Kerry Wint, Tanya Nonthando Wilson, Amy Worrall, Max Wyld, and Toad Lickers Collective represented by Liz Rose.

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