Leeds Arts University is delighted to announce Made It, our 2025 end of year show, celebrating the creativity and dedication of our postgraduate students.

The exhibition features a breadth of creative talent from a growing portfolio of postgraduate study at Leeds Arts University, which now includes MA Animation, MA Creative Practice, MA Digital Fashion, MA Fine Art, MA Graphic Design, MA Illustration with Graphic Novel, MA Photography, MA Worldbuilding with Creature Design.

Professor Simone Wonnacott, Vice-Chancellor Leeds Arts University said:

Pyramid, the Leeds-based arts charity supporting people with learning disabilities and/or autism to get into the arts, reveals its ambitions for the next four years. Coined the ‘Pyramid Plan’, this co-written strategy is the brainchild of the charity’s Visioning Group, made up of 10 artists with and without learning disabilities, autism, or both, who lead on the strategic direction of the organisation. 

Leeds-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.

Build to Rent developer PLATFORM_ has recently collaborated with renowned international street artist Kid Acne to create a major new landmark for Leeds. The art installation will transform the historic Commercial Inn in the heart of Sweetfields, a significant new 1.3 million sqft neighbourhood in Leeds' South Bank.

Spearheading the international Street Art movement, Yorkshire-based Kid Acne has exhibited large-scale artworks across the globe for over twenty years, from Rome and Los Angeles to Beijing and Paris. 

What, or who, do you think of when you consider the term artist? A few years ago I was asked this question, my response today is very different to the one I gave back then.

Let me introduce myself; I am Doll and I make art. I am an artist.

It has taken many years to feel comfortable saying that, and the question I posed has a lot to do with how I see myself. When I pondered the question originally my view of an artist came tangled in layers of perception, judgement and self doubt - the term evoked sterile white gallery walls and ornate gold frames holding oil paintings.

Uneasy Listening is a brand new weird horror comedy audio drama with a distinctly Northern accent. Here, SJ Bradley, the award-winning writer from Leeds, tells us more about her latest venture. 

The first episode, I See Something, is out now all podcast platforms. This bold new supernatural comedy follows bride-to-be Donna as she seeks advice from seafront psychic Madame Jet on the eve of her fourth wedding. But Donna gets more than she bargained for, when parts of her past that she’d rather keep hidden are revealed through the reading…

LGBT History Month is almost over and once again it has been wonderful to see the events taking place to recognise and celebrate it. 

It is my eternal hope that events like these not only provide opportunities for connection in the here and now, but also inspire people to investigate all the things that have come before them and have also shaped both the world they live in and the people they have become and will continue growing to be. It seems so true that to understand where you need to go and what you need to do, knowing where you have come from is important.

imagine if theatre company is offering an incredible, accessible opportunity for female identifying working-class writers over 18.

Writers’ Toolbox 2 is a six-month paid programme, starting in April in Leeds. The focus will be on writing for stage and screen and supporting women to begin working on a new piece of writing as well as giving them the tools to secure funding to produce their own work.  We want to support writers of all levels of experience, who have distinctive voices and incredible stories to tell.