Tag: learning disabilities

Leeds Art Gallery exhibition showcases artists with learning disabilities and autism

Leeds Art Gallery and Pyramid, a Holbeck-based arts organisation, are proud to announce a new collaborative show that responds to the work of John Atkinson Grimshaw and features artwork by artists with learning disabilities and autism. Titled Pyramid View On … John Atkinson Grimshaw, the artistic response opens on Friday

New art studio in Holbeck for people with learning disabilities and autism

Holbeck-based arts organisation, Pyramid, has opened the doors to its accessible art space, Studio Pyramid. Formerly operating as an add-on for existing Pyramid members, the inclusive studio is expanding its reach to welcome more local artists with learning disabilities and autism. Studio Pyramid offers artists with learning disabilities and autism

New film celebrates Yorkshire artists with learning disabilities and autism 

Yorkshire filmmaker, Alfie Fox, is screening his newest documentary about Holbeck-based arts organisation, Pyramid, at Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds on Thursday (14 August 2025). The documentary celebrates the work Pyramid does to support people with learning disabilities and autism to get into the arts. It explores what the

Pyramid to host art market in Holbeck this Saturday

Pyramid, a Leeds-based charity that supports people with learning disabilities and autism to get into the arts, is running their annual summer art market in Holbeck on Saturday (19 July 2025) from 10:30am-2pm. The market features artwork and goods from local artists and businesses including Nourishing People, SLATE and Dragon’s

South Leeds arts charity shortlisted for Northern Music Award

Holbeck-based arts charity Pyramid has been shortlisted for the Flare Audio Music and Culture for Wellbeing Award at this year’s Northern Music Awards sponsored by Ticketmaster and Live Nation, hosted by music therapy charity, Nordoff and Robbins. High Rise Music, Pyramid’s weekly group for people with profound and multiple learning

BAFF: supporting families with learning disabilities for 20 years

I met with Lynn Bailey to find out more about Better Action For Families (BAFF) which has recently marked its 20th anniversary. I started by asking how BAFF got started. “It started with my daughter Leanne,” Lynn explained. “She’s got learning disabilities and when she got to about 17 or