THE York Curiouser arts project ends on Monday, so time is running out to spot the contemporary art in hidden and sometimes surprising parts of the city.

Co-artistic directors Lara Goodband and Hazel Colquhoun are thrilled by the response of York residents and visitors alike to the inaugural project, both on social media and through reactions on site.

“York Curiouser is going fantastically well,” they say. “We’ve been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and interest. The artworks have provoked discussion and debate and encouraged residents to see their city afresh. So do take this last chance to see art in the hidden corners of a medieval city.”

York Curiouser comprises new works from artists from around Britain who have been inspired by the rich history of York, such as poet John Wedgwood Clarke, who often works on public art commissions. His new sequence of poems, In Between, is about the snickets, passages and yards of York and can be found in the places that inspired them and in the orderly courtyard of King’s Manor in a new sound piece created with Damian Murphy.

Susanne Davies, originally from Wales but settled in York for 20 years, works with embroidery threads to explore repetitive labour and female workspaces in her installation. Her latest work can be found in the grounds of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall.

"She's been the surprise hit of the event, really," says publicist Jeanne Swales.

"She was relatively inexperienced, and no one knew quite what she was going to come up with, but the audience reaction to her installation has been really positive. And some of the partners, such as English Heritage, have been so impressed with her piece that they're looking at ways of using her."

Textile designer Sally Greaves-Lord’s series of banners, inspired by motifs from the mediaeval banners of the Guilds of York, are on the city walls in St Anthony’s Gardens, behind the Quilt Museum. Heinrich & Palmer, makers of site-specific artworks such as bespoke kaleidoscopes, are using lights, mirrors and water to create an illusory space in the Red Tower.

Janet Hodgson has created The Workshop of Historical Correction: Fictional Artefacts and Film combined in an installation at the Fishergate Postern Tower, while Jacques Nimki's installation of donated handbags and weeds can be discovered in the gardens at the National Centre for Early Music and you should avoid trying to bite into ceramicist Karen Thompson's white sliced-bread sandwiches in porcelain in various locations around York.

This final weekend of the project coincides with Le Grand Départ in York and is part of the 100-day Yorkshire Festival accompanying the tour.