Last night was the NE Culture Awards in Sunderland and we are thrilled to have taken home the award for Best Event/Exhibition.

Middlesbrough Art Week 2024 opens this Thursday 26 September. Join the trail. We meet at Dundas House at 6pm

See all upcoming walk, talks, workshops, events, gigs & performances

Find a rest stop for MAW24 at Holiday Inn

After 18 months (+10 days to be exact) of delays, the building works at The Auxiliary will begin today, Monday 9th September. Its been a long road getting here but fingers crossed the next 6 months will fly and we'll be back in our new building by Spring.

Across 2023-2025 Navigator North has been working in partnership with Middlesbrough Council and station operators TransPennine Express, are leading on the delivery of the Most Creative Station programme at Middlesbrough Railway Station.

This month we welcome Edel O'Reilly is an Irish curator and organiser now working as executive director for The Auxiliary and Middlesbrough Art Week.

OPEN CALL We are seeking short text contributions to show on an electronic, solar-powered traffic management display that will be situated in Middlesbrough during the festival. 

Check out our Art Map for a sneak peak of this year's MAW locations.

This year we welcome Claire Feeley to the curatorial team; alongside Kyp Kyprianou, Pennelope Payne and Festival Director Liam Slevin.

Alia Gargum was selected for the AUX x MO artists support programme which commenced in May 2024. As a result Alia will be exhibiting work at MAW, benefitting from mentoring and receiving a £1200 bursary to support their practice.

In March we sent out the North East Open Call and in May we selected 8 artists from our initial 200 applicants. The selected artists are invited to take part in the NEOC group exhibition which makes up part of the core programme for Middlesbrough Art Week.

The New Graduate Award (NGA) has grown to support nine graduates from five Institutions: Newcastle University, Northumbria University, The Northern School of Art, University of Sunderland and Teesside University.

From submission to exhibition: Artist Liberty Hodes shares their experience of the North East Open Call 2023, as we embark on Middlesbrough Art Week 2024.

What happens when you organise an art festival but don't have your central exhibition space? Well, you decide to grow one!

We have been growing an exhibition! Come along and discover what has been ‘growing on’ in the creative hub and take part in activities inspired by the themes and artists of this year’s MAW.

Hello. I’m Saeborg. I am so grateful to have this chance to present my work to this year’s Middlesbrough Art Week. As an artist I produce my own latex outfits, developing performances in which I myself wear them >

Derived from observations made in transit, these motion-blurred vistas are digital manipulations of historically significant 19th Century oil landscapes, captured as if moving at high velocity through these idyllic rural environments >

Tish celebrates the vision and profound humanism of the artist Tish Murtha, a photographer whose powerful imagery captured the essence of working-class communities >

Industrial Coast will present one show as part of MAW. Its Thursday 5 October, at the Auxiliary, and will feature A Man Called Adam & very special guest the Andrea Parker >