Gig posters take centre stage in new exhibition

An exhibition of gig posters will be on display at Gallery Munroe House from February 1 to 22. Co-curated by Tony Baker and in association with Leeds City College, Flyposting #3 features the gig posters of popular bands including Queens of the Stone Age, La Roux and Public Service Broadcasting. The exhibition features work by … Continue reading →

100 days of arts events to coincide with Le Tour de Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Festival 2014, a 100-day arts and cultural festival which will precede the Tour de France for the first time in its 111 year history, was launched at the Trinity Centre, Leeds, today. 47 projects have been commissioned to be officially part of the festival, which runs from March 27 to July 6, and … Continue reading →

Yorkshire celebrated in new exhibition

The Yorkshire region will be the subject of a new exhibition at Abbey House Museum, Kirkstall, until the end of 2014. With inspiration taken from responses to Leeds Museum and Galleries’ Yorkshire Survey and selected photographs from the Snapshot of Yorkshire competition. On display will also be a selection of quirky and comic objects from … Continue reading →

The Reversing Machine comes to Leeds

An exhibition designed by artists Sam Belinfante and Simon Lewandowski will be on display at The Tetley, Leeds, from January 25. The Reversing Machine is an exhibition focused on a mechanical device which operates objects attached to it for a set amount of time and then reverses the process for the same amount of time. … Continue reading →

Interview with Tom Price at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

by Jon Cronshaw He’s notorious for licking a gallery wall till his tongue bled. Now, artist Tom Price creates sculptures of everyday black men that are deliberately unheroic. In 2001, Tom Price tried to cover an entire gallery with his saliva over a three-day period. But in the first hour, his tongue began to bleed … Continue reading →

Halifax Piece Hall closes doors until 2016

Halifax Piece Hall has closed its doors for the final time before the historic building undergoes a £19 million refurbishment. Work will begin on the site in May to refurbish the hall and the project will see the building of a new central library on the site by spring 2016. Traders based in units at … Continue reading →

Reconstructed Russian sculpture to go on display at Henry Moore Institute

A reconstruction of the Stenberg brothers‘ Konstruktsiya Prosranstvennogo Sooruzheniya (Construction for a Spatial Structure) (1917) will be on display at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, from from January 22 to April 26. The Moscow-born, Russian-Swedish brothers Vladimir (1899-1982) and Georgii (1900-1933) Stenberg are central figures of the early Russian Constructivist movement, characterised by a laboratory … Continue reading →

Merrion Centre mural set for removal

A campaign has been launched to prevent a painted mural being removed from the Merion Centre, Leeds. The mural was painted in the 1960s but is set to be removed as part of the centre’s renovation. Plans show that the mural will make for a series of large windows which will for part of a … Continue reading →

Graphic Design students to take studio into gallery

An exhibition of work by Graphic Design students at Leeds College of Art will be held at Blenheim Walk Gallery from January 10 to February 7. Work In Progress is an exhibition curated by current third year students studying Graphic Design at Leeds College of Art. The aim of the exhibition is to show the … Continue reading →

Hepworth represented at the London Art Fair

Key works by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and their contemporaries will feature in a unique exhibition at this year’s London Art Fair entitled Barbara Hepworth and the Development of British Modernism. Curated by Frances Guy, head of collections at The Hepworth Wakefield, the exhibition will feature a selection of works drawn from the gallery’s collection. … Continue reading →