High Peak launches first ever open studios weekend

This inaugural event marks a significant moment for the region’s creative community, bringing together artists, makers, and designers for a landmark weekend that invites the public directly into their working spaces.

For the first time, studios, workshops, community venues, and pop‑up exhibition spaces across the High Peak will open their doors to visitors. From painters and printmakers to ceramicists, photographers, textile artists, and sculptors, the event offers a rare opportunity to discover the breadth of creative practice happening within the local area and to meet the artists behind it.

To help visitors explore the event’s many venues, organisers have released a growing interactive map, providing a clear guide to artists and locations taking part:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1_t05o3U31Ekf22YBAtGxNtAid-hl-Ps&usp=sharing

The High Peak Open Studios event features venues across: Chapel‑en‑le‑Frith, Chinley, Whaley Bridge, Hayfield. New Mills. Buxton and Glossop

In addition to the online map, visitors will be able to collect printed maps and curated trail guides. These will be available at all participating venues as well as at the Pump Room Tourist Information Centre in Buxton. Printed resources will be accessible from the beginning of May, ensuring visitors can plan routes, discover new studios, and enjoy the event at their own pace.

High Peak Open Studios represents a new chapter in the region’s cultural calendar, an opportunity to celebrate both established practitioners and emerging voices. Organisers hope the event will strengthen connections between artists and their communities, attract visitors from across the Peaks and beyond, and lay the foundation for an annual tradition that showcases creativity at the heart of the High Peak.