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:

Mark your calendars! The festival returns for its third year on Monday 18 November 2024. This year, we're moving to a brand new location – the amazing and culturally rich Royal Armouries in Leeds. Get ready for a fresh experience filled with inspiration and discovery!

Prepare to immerse yourself in the captivating world of images as Photo North Festival gears up for its fifth edition, set to illuminate Leeds this spring with what promises to be one of the most exciting European photographic events of the year.

Disabled people have always been part of the textile workforce of the UK, but their contributions have often gone unrecognised. Once the industrial revolution got underway, the narrative that disabled people were unable to work and had to depend on the workhouse or on charity took hold. This idea of disabled people as being dependent and needy continues to this day. But it’s not the whole story.

The Wise Women manifesto was created by Dr Gillian Dyson-Moss, Dr Anne Schiffer, Dr Joanna Leah, and Lizzie Coombes, academics at Leeds Beckett’s Leeds School of Arts, to give voice to creative female researchers, especially those who feel frozen out as older women or as ‘early career researchers’.

The project has been funded by Research England and the Leeds Beckett Equity and Inclusion Research Fund.

If you've not been able to take a tour around Beeston and Holbeck's LS11 Art Gallery we thought we'd share a few photos of the pictures along with some of the artists who created them. The lampost gallery was created by Slung Low during lockdown and all the artwork is by people living in the area.  The LS11 Art Gallery is funded through the Leeds Inspired Grants Scheme. Enjoy!