UpCo

UpCo is a community arts resource in Otley, West Yorkshire, with artists' studios and a space for ongoing classes and exhibitions

Permanently closed.

04/03/2026

Saturday 7th March to Sunday 5th April, with a preview on Friday 6th 6:00 onwards All welcome! Alan has transformed UPCO with his northern landscape paintings peopled and birded; post industrial. Landscapes that tell stories; ancient and blighted; beautiful. Come and see for yourself.

03/02/2026

Let’s paint! Join us for a long soothing Sunday or two Tuesday evening classes. Dates are Sunday February 15th and Tuesday March 10th and 17th. Everything you need to paint your own wooden Pennsylvania Dutch folk art sign is included and even a homemade hot lunch if you choose the Sunday session. It’s relaxing and fun and everyone can do it! Sign up via the website - whatsupco.co.uk

26/01/2026

💋🪩CAROL HODGE🎈❄️Carol Hodge kicked off her January Blues Buster Tour with us on Friday! She made us sing. She blew us away and swept us into 2026 with our first gig of the year. January you have been told! 2026 we are ready! She was joined by Satnam Galsian whose storytelling and singing was just a total joy. Thanks Carol and Satnam! You can still catch Carol’s MEGA performance. Her tour continues. Details from the last slide and at

13/01/2026

Coming very very very soon!
The inimitable, brilliant, inspiring force of nature that is CAROL HODGE, we lucky people at UpCo get to be the first date on her tour.
Friday 23 January.
You must come, it's an order.
Get a ticket from us at:
https://whatsupco.uk/shop/e/Carol-Hodge-Ticket-p796552670

29/11/2025

Today, Saturday, UpCo in Otley will be open for those of you who really really really wanted to see Jon Langford’s glorious paintings when the exhibition opened but you couldn’t make it because you had friends round or had to visit your elderly mum or there was football on the telly.
This exhibition is a collection of portraits of cultural and counter-cultural icons draped in the flotsam and jetsam of rock n roll iconography. Beautiful beautiful pictures. You don’t need to buy one, just come and look closely at the fine, funny, up-close detail in every painting… in the quiet solace of our upstairs room on Courthouse Street.
Open today between 1pm and 4pm. Just walk in.

19/11/2025

Jon Langford - the exhibition isn’t open this weekend but get in touch for viewing times through December.

09/11/2025

JON LANGFORD - NEXT UP UPCO - His painting exhibition opens November 15th at 6. Jon Langford of the Mekons, Three Johns, Waco Brothers joins us in Otley for a weekend of all things JON with a gig on Sunday along with the exhibition which you can see until December 14th.

On Sunday 16th November at 7pm, UpCo will host a concert by Jon along with his faithful pianner-player Barclay McKay. Tickets for this event are priced at £12 from the link , so get one (or two, or three) as quick as you can.

23/09/2025

The legend that is JON LANGFORD (Mekons, Three Johns, Waco Brothers, Sportchestra) is coming to UpCo in Otley, Yorkshire and bringing with him a saddlebag full of songs and a wagonload of art...

An exhibition of the boy's strikingly powerful paintings will open on Saturday 15 November at 6pm (all welcome, free entry, UpCo bar).

Then the following day, Sunday 16 November at 7pm, there'll be a concert featuring Jon and his trusty pianner-playing sidekick Barclay McKay. Tickets £12 (bleeding bargain!) available from www.whatsupco.uk

10/09/2025

Colin Latter - PAINTING EXHIBITION opens this Friday with an artist talk and special collaboration with our very own Boff Whalley who will be asking Colin all about his work and life inspired by their shared punk histories. Colin was vocalist with the punk band Flux of Pink Indians, writing lyrics, organising gigs and setting up a record label. For more than a decade Colin created artwork for record sleeves, fanzines and gig posters. Today a touch of that anarchic spirit lives on in his work.

03/09/2025

Colin Latter is coming to Otley and UPCO! His painting exhibition opens Friday September 12th with an artist talk and special collaboration with our very own Boff Whalley who will be asking Colin all about his work and life inspired by their shared punk histories. Colin was vocalist with the punk band Flux of Pink Indians, writing lyrics, organising gigs and setting up a record label. For more than a decade Colin created artwork for record sleeves, fanzines and gig posters. Today a touch of that anarchic spirit lives on in his work. JOIN US in welcoming Colin and his paintings to Upco on September 12th at 7 pm!

17/05/2025

Johnny Hannah has been scribbling on our walls! Catch the show before it’s gone! OPEN MONDAY - SATURDAY 1-3 Cake & Ale Press & all things Darktown is in sunny Yorkshire - Otley to be more precise.

A mix of paintings, prints, books etc for your enjoyment and a brand new set of woodcut & letterpress prints, printed at Tilley Printing in Ledbury, on Mr Clark’s mighty wharfedale press... made in Otley in 1879.

15/05/2025

🌞Jonny Hannah🌞- EXHIBITION IS OPEN MONDAY - SATURDAY 1-3 this Friday open 3-5 Cake & Ale Press & all things Darktown is in sunny Yorkshire - Otley to be more precise.

A mix of paintings, prints, books etc for your enjoyment and a brand new set of woodcut & letterpress prints, printed at Tilley Printing in Ledbury, on Mr Clark’s mighty wharfedale press... made in Otley in 1879... think on...

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Courthouse Street
Otley
LS213AN

Website

http://www.whatsupco.uk/

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