New artwork commissions available for disabled artists in West Yorkshire. 

In collaboration with Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills, disabled curator and activist Gill Crawshaw is creating a LEEDS 2023 exhibition inspired by the stories of disabled textile workers across West Yorkshire. 

She's looking for disabled artists based in West Yorkshire to create new works of art in response to these stories.

As well as playing a key part in the stories of some of the city’s best known bands including the Kaiser Chiefs, Embrace, and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Old Chapel Music CIC - a not for profit community interest company which manages the studios in Holbeck - supports young people, up-and-coming artists and community groups, giving them access to the same facilities as established bands.

Residents since 1997 when as teenagers they were known as Parva, the Kaiser Chiefs still rehearse at Old Chapel Music Studios and have their own room in the extension they helped to fund in 2013.