A New Era for Involve, Hunslet…
On Friday 11th September, Involve Learning Centre, Whitfield Avenue, Hunslet, will be holding an Open Day to mark the next phase in our development as a place for community activity.
Situation Leeds on ‘The Corner’ | Saturday 16th May 10am – 10pm
Situation Leeds | come and join us for a day of fun and frolics out in the open on ‘The Corner’ Pocket Sculpture Park, Tunstall Road (opposite BasementArtsProject).
Situation Leeds: Community Canvas
Today’s focus on Situation Leeds takes us away from ceramic ears and into a world of painting.
Come and join us for some community painting on Saturday 16th May 10am – 4pm
Situation Leeds: The Listening City
In yesterday’s writing ‘Sous le Pave les Plage’ I wrote about how the French postman Ferdinand Cheval turned work, and the public environment into a game. This game, which to many will have seemed either pointless or a sign of madness, resulted in an incredible artwork/folly in the ‘Palais Ideal’
Election Special: Sous les pavés, la plage!
The city has become a graveyard. The gap-toothed grin of the high street distorts our sense of reality as generally worthless businesses open and close and the centre shifts eternally. There will come a time when the dust settles at the end of civilisation and nature starts to reclaim the cities in the absence of the human animal.
Hard Shoulder Motorway City
We would like to invite the community of South Leeds to our next opening on Tuesday 19th May | 5:30 – 8:30pm by Artist Lane Shipsey.
Alcohol and Prostitution in The Garden of Eden: an Easter Story
Like some distressed inner city tortoise emerging from its shell, a head perched on a long thin neck rears up from under the coat. Hollow dark rimmed eyes stare back at me from the depths of a skull that has seen more than one too many traumas. A frail skeletal frame in skintight leggings that still manage to hang off a body whose muscle has long since wasted away. I remain at a slight distance in an attempt not to intimidate. I ask again
Tensile Strength -an exhibition by four women sculptors
Whether it is the seemingly absurd sculptures of Rosaline Zipporah, the sinister insectoid work of Lily Honey-Doyle, the molten abstraction of Iona Ogilvy Stuart or the overt humour of Lucy Young, all have one thing in common: a dedication to exploring the material qualities of metal through sculpture.
The End Is Nigh’!
The rancid pollution of geopolitics has seemingly poisoned the well of community beyond repair.
As we head into a time of local elections we must not forget that politics is not an end in itself, but a means.