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Artwork by Tien Hsin
Alumni Exhibition – Here, Elsewhere 慢漫曼幔
New solo exhibition by MA Fine Art alumna Tien Hsin, curated by MA Art Gallery & Museum Studies graduate Poe Liu
The show runs from 7 March to 5 April at CirCurate Space, an art space in Keelung, Taiwan, founded by Poe 👇
www.circurate.co/event/here-e...
Participation Right Now: an interdisciplinary in-conversation
📅 16 March, 3-4.30pm
Hosted by Postgraduate Researcher Yang Feng, this in-conversation activity brings together Dr Helen Graham, Dr Emily Gray & Siyuan Zhao to reflect on today’s participatory culture 👇
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
Scherzo di Follia: The Countess of Castiglione (detail). Photographed by Pierre-Louis Pierson circa 1861–67, (printed ca. 1930). Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005. Reproduced under The Met’s open access policy.
*What's in an art collective? How artists work together*
Join us at this symposium where final year undergraduate fine art students will share their research into regional art collectives.
📅 Monday 9 March, 3-5pm
📍 @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Full info👇
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
MA Fine Art student Bethany Wilson is 1 of 3 Ones to Watch 2026 artists taking part at a performance night this weekend at Sunny Bank Mills!
📅 Saturday 7 March, 18:30 – 21:00
📍 @sunnybankmills.bsky.social
83-85 Town Street
Farsley
Pudsey LS28 5UJ
Info 👇
www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/arts/gallery...
Jo McGonigal, work in progress, A Space Already Full, 2026.
A Space Already Full at The Painted Church, Cambridge, opens this Saturday 7 March at 2pm.
This new exhibition showcases work by Working Spaces – a collective of five UK artists including Moyra Derby and Jo McGonigal from @universityofleeds.bsky.social 👇
www.thepaintedchurch.co.uk/events.html
Jasleen Kaur, Keystone II. Photography by Eva Herzog.
Join us for a visiting artist talk with Jasleen Kaur, winner of the Turner Prize 2024.
📅 Wednesday 4 March, 14:00 – 15:00
📍 Online (MS Teams)
The talk will reflect on recent work and ongoing research on the theme of ‘geography’.
Full details & book your place 👇
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
Students walk down the steps by the Edward Boyle Library on the University of Leeds campus
Discover your next steps to postgraduate study at our Masters Discovery Fair on Wednesday 11 March:
🧑💼 Explore career support and opportunities
💰 Get funding advice
💬 Speak to academic staff
🏙️ Learn about life as a postgraduate student at Leeds
Find out more 👇
https://bit.ly/4s6w5GX
As the Mill Rests by Ella Brereton
📅 20 February, 12-5pm
📍 @sunnybankmills.bsky.social
A site-responsive installation in Sunny Bank Mills' Spinning Loft, created by final year BA Fine Art with Contemporary Cultural Theory student #EllaBrereton 👇
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
This year's MA Fine Art Interim Show - Bend and Break - opens today in our #ProjectSpace
Join the artists this evening from 5-7pm for a private view 👇
Design by AJ Turner
Private View – Bend and Break – MA Fine Art Interim Show
📅 20 February, 5-7pm
📍 Project Space
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
Join us for a private view of this year's MA #FineArt Interim Show, Bend and Break.
All welcome!
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
Film screening – Mycelium (dir. Jacob Whiting, 2025)
📅 25 February, 1.30pm
📍 School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Join us for a screening of local filmmaker Jacob Whiting’s recently released short Mycelium (2025), followed by an artist Q&A 👇
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
Three students are seated at a table studying with laptops in the library. They are in a well-lit room with red booth dividers.
Did you miss our Postgraduate Virtual Open Day? We’ve got you!
Watch online talks from our postgraduate community specialists on demand now.
Find out about: ️
✍️Admissions
💰Funding and scholarships
🏡Accommodation
🤩Student experience
📈Advancing your career
Watch now ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4tqYqsY
Our students, alumni & staff are featured in the BIG LOVE SHOW: an exhibition & book curated by artist, writer, fine art alumni & Menace George Storm Fletcher, working with the team at Hyde Park Art Club
Join the artists @ the launch event on 15 February:
www.hydeparkbookclub.co.uk/the-big-love...
At this event chaired by Professor @joannecrawford.bsky.social, panellists will be invited to consider the works of the Turner Prize 2025 nominees as objects of memory that 'reveal' themselves through a range of complex, often unstable, societal and institutional structures.
Find out more 👇
A colourful hexagonal block on a golden mirrored floor with golden spheres on threads hanging from the ceiling above it. In the background a person walks in front of a colourful multipaneled painting.
This Thursday
Join us for an in conversation with a panel of artists, curators and academics on the theme of memory in art, with reference to the Turner Prize 2025 and contemporary artistic practice
12 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Online tickets still available
🎟️ library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Join us today at 3pm for Dr Helen Graham's book talk on 'Deconstituting Museums: Participation’s Affective Work', taking place in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.
All welcome!
👇
A navy blue poster with red and blue circles and white text which reads "A Continuous Circulation: Artists and Art Education in Mid-century Leeds – Selections from the archive of Maurice de Sausmarez"
Now open!
🔵 A Continuous Circulation: Artists and Art Education in Mid-century Leeds – Selections from the archive of Maurice de Sausmarez 🔵
library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Tuesday 20 January – Saturday 9 May 2026
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Screenshot from Clare Carter Osborne's film, ‘Our Wider Flesh’ (2024). Image courtesy of the artist.
Poster for Stories in Motion exhibition at the University of Huddersfield from 26 January to 1 May 2026.
Postgraduate Researcher Clare Carter Osborne's short film 'Our Wider Flesh' (2024) is included in a new #exhibition in Huddersfield
Join Clare & other featured artists to celebrate the launch of 'Stories in Motion' on 5 February (4-7pm). More info & book your place👇
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
Cover for Helen Graham's new book, Deconstituting Museums: Participation's affective work, published by UCL Press (September 2025). Cover artwork by Clifford Hayes
Deconstituting Museums: Participation's affective work – talk
📅 11 February, 3-4pm
📍 University of Leeds
Dr Helen Graham will share insights from her new book which explores why participation (the direct involvement of non-museum staff in museums) has been so hard👇
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
Two people looking at illuminated medieval books displayed in a lit glass museum case.
Happy birthday to us! 🎂
Next week we celebrate ten years of Treasures of the Brotherton
We'll be joined by curators past and present to look back at a decade of exhibitions showcasing stories from our Cultural Collections - and you're invited!
RSVP: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Exhibition poster with artwork by Farwa Rizvi titled How do you find God? in background
What the Hand Remembers – exhibition
📅 26 January to 13 February
Work by two of our fine art alumni – Farwa Rizvi (MA Fine Art) and Alice Boot (BA Fine Art) – is featured in a new group exhibition at Patrick Studios, East Street Arts in #Leeds
Full info 👇
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Poster for a talk at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa on 23 January with a photo of the speaker, Tom Vickery
Animism, Film & the Mangrove: Reading ‘Luta Ca Caba Inda’ through Film as an Animist Medium
📅 23 January, 15:00
📍Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Talk by Tom Vickery, Postgraduate Researcher at University of Leeds & Visiting Researcher at Universidade Nova de Lisboa 👇
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
A pair of Kuduo on display in the Elmina Castle Gallery, National Museum of Ghana. Photo by Mark Seyram Amenyo-Xa. Used with permission from the National Museum of Ghana.
Beyond object ID: Interrogating entangled histories of collections of the National Museum of Ghana
📅 21 January, 1pm
📍 University of Leeds
This 'work in progress' seminar welcomes Visiting Research Fellow Mark Seyram Amenyo-Xa (University of Ghana) 👇
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
Abigail Harrison Moore @professorabigail.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social has written for @uk.theconversation.com about her reaction to a new six-part BBC drama series, 'Waiting for the Out':
*EXHIBITION OPEN CALL*
Artist, writer, @leedsalumni.bsky.social and Menace #GeorgeStormFletcher & the team at #HydeParkArtClub invite you to be a part of THE BIG LOVE SHOW: an #exhibition opening in February 2026 in #Leeds
Full info including how to apply:
www.curatorspace.com/opportunitie...
Seeing with opacity: mediation and non-human history in John Akomfrah’s audio-visual practice
TODAY at 1pm
This seminar focuses on the audiovisual installations of the contemporary artist John Akomfrah. Speaker: Ghada Habib, Visiting Research, University of Leeds:
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
Exhibition poster for Winter Open Studio event at the University of Leeds on 10 December 2025, 5 to 7pm. In the background is a pale blue image of a gallery and a cut out of a snowflake
Winter Open Studio
📅 10 December 5-7pm
📍 Yellow, Grey & Blue Studios
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University Road
University of Leeds
Our 2nd year undergraduate fine art students are opening up their studios to display works in progress👇
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
Exhibition poster for 'where do we go from here? at the University of Leeds on 10 December 2025, 5 to 7pm. In the background is a pale blue image of electrical appliances in a gallery
where do we go from here? – exhibition
📅 Wednesday 10 December, 5-7pm
📍 Project Space
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University Road
University of Leeds
Join us for an exhibition of works in progress by our first year fine art students:
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo. Photo by Ding Musa and João Musa.
From São Paulo to Leeds: Museums, Access & Inclusive Arts Practice
📅 10 December, 2pm
📍 Roger Stevens LT 21
University of Leeds
Hosted by Dr Jade French, this event welcomes Dr Viviane Sarraf & museum practitioners Gabriela Gotoda, Amanda Santos & Leonardo Sassaki
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
Black and white illustration of a grand town hall building with columns and clock tower.
Drawing of a collection of red brick buildings, some with spires and archways, and one with a huge stained glass window.
Watercolour of purple abbey ruins surrounded by trees and shrubs next to a river.
Black and white illustration of a fancy manor house with double staircase and formal gardens out front.
Question:
What do you value about the heritage of Leeds?
It's a big question we know, but we (and our heritage pals across the city) are really interested in what matters to you - the physical objects, buildings, and landscapes, and the intangible stories, festivals, traditions, and beliefs...