The Old Red Bus Station is summoning local Leeds creatives to participate in an in-house exhibition opportunity, exploring how society uses humour as a coping mechanism and laughs in the face of adversity.
Selected work will be exhibited at The Old Red Bus Station in an ambitious celebration of creativity.
Urban Sketchers is a global movement of people who love to sketch on location. There are Urban Sketchers Chapters in almost every country including the UK, which has over 25 regional chapters.
Over the next three months, BasementArtsProject will be working with sculptors John Barber and Keith Ackerman on the production of two stone benches. The benches will be made using the same type of stone as the sculpture Jacob’s Ladder, also sited on the same bit of land at the edge of Tunstall Road, and the same process of direct carving.
The Dynamite Project is a collective established in 2014 by local urban artist Mikkel Ullah.
Mikkel says "It felt important that I could help young musicians, dancers and artists from Leeds access opportunities and connections for creative projets, whilst staying connected to the city myself."
Ever wanted to help shape the future of a creative organisation? Well, now is your chance.
From 31st March 2022 - 2nd April 2022 at new experimental warehouse venue Testbed, informed by her Jewish history, artist Rachel Mars will be making an exact replica of the 100kg steel ‘welcome gate’ which was stolen from the Dachau concentration camp. Accompanied by a live sound-scape by sound artist Dinah Mullen, audiences are invited to watch as Rachel welds a replica of the replica gate over the course of three days.
Hyde Park Art Club's graduate open call ‘VIM’ will be a selected showcase of brilliant work created by Leeds students during the global pandemic. We're accepting applications from artists who graduated in Leeds in 2020 / 2021 working in any media or discipline. If you’re an artist, designer, photographer, illustrator, dancer, or anyone who identifies as a creative send us your wares - but please note, as a guide - works selected for the show will be displayed as follows:
Leeds Arts Centre’s new visual identity has been designed to reflect their socially engaged, community focussed approach to theatre making – hopefully raising a little cheer around the creative arts in the city along the way!
I am a second-year student studying Visual Communication at Leeds Arts University. My practice includes illustration, photography and video through to 3D design. Colour, play and fun have been my main influences for a long time and I'll always find ways to project them in my work, some way or another.
PROCESS/play designed this series of posters with the aim of raising the profile of the Leeds chapter of The Modernist Society. Leeds Modernist Society is a creative project dedicated to celebrating and engaging with twentieth century architecture and design in the city, through publishing, events, exhibitions and creative collaborations.