What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Art Department at Cockburn John Charles Academy welcomed some unusual visitors last month as Year 8 students took part in a lively life drawing session featuring live chickens. Working directly from observation, students explored a range of drawing techniques, including continuous line drawing, non-dominant hand sketching, and quick observational
Looking for free, creative activities to enjoy with the family this summer? Yorkshire Contemporary (formerly The Tetley) will bring art and play to Cross Flatts Park every Wednesday and Thursday in August. Inspired by the way museums collect and archive objects, join artist Claye Bowler for pARCHIVE and create a
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).
Come and join us for some community painting on Saturday 16th May 10am – 4pm
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’
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.
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.
Young people from The Hunslet Club will be participating in the Young Artists’ Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Arts, a prestigious national exhibition celebrating the creativity of young people across the UK. Over the past four weeks, young people from across The Hunslet Club have taken part in
