Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage

Staithes Festival has established itself as one of the friendliest festivals on the coast – a must-see event in the regional arts calendar.

Festival 2024 is on Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 September, with preview night 7pm-8.30pm Friday 13 September

Doors of cottages are thrown open as pop-up art galleries in a unique selling exhibition. 

Celebrating the history and heritage of Staithes with a programme of walks, talks, photographs, and film shows.

North York Moors, Scarborough Borough Council and Welcome to Yorkshire
Crowd

Glenn Kilpatrick www.whitby-photography.com

Emma Stothard

In 2015 sculptor Emma Stothard created two magnificent lobsters made of hand woven wire for the  Festival. They stood proudly on the northern breakwater and the beach, washed by the tide. In hidden corners of the village she also placed a full size horse, hare and labrador and at the entrance to the village at the top, a what she named the lobster quadrille.

We were delighted to welcome Emma to the Festival for the first time. 

About Emma

Emma is from East Yorkshire and now lives in Whitby wih husband chef Rob Green. She takes her inspiration for the local landscape, her travels and British wildlife.

She taught at Whitby College where she began working as a sculptor and in 2001 with a grant from the Prince's Trust, began created lifesize sculptures of animals and birds made from willow and more recently from bronze and sterling silver wire.

Last year Emma worked on a major public commission in bronze of the extinct 'straight tusked elephant and calf' to be sighted in Kent. Between exhibitions, she undertake commissions ranging from labradors to thoroughbred mares and foals.

Her work is also found in Prince Charles'  Orchard Lawn, Highgrove, Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons and William & Son, Mayfair.