Art

News Competition for Leeds Photography Students to Display Work in City Centre Hotel

Winning work set to go on display at Park Plaza's newly refurbished City Square hotel

Photography students at Leeds College of Art have been given the opportunity by Park Plaza Hotels to permanently display their work in the company’s newly refurbished hotel in the city.

The competition has seen more than 700 entries whittled down to just 78, with the talented photography students vying for the chance to have their pictures adorn the Park Plaza hotel on City Square, which is undergoing a £2m refurbishment.… Read more...

Preview Wall Art Rockers at Cafe 164

Enjoy other-worldly modern art work at this Leeds city centre cafe

Art is meant to surprise and shock, delight and, at times, disturb. One style of art on show in Leeds this month blends all of the above: the innovative modern concept is described as "wall art for a digital generation".

The ultra-modern pieces blend art and technology seamlessly. Inspired by graphics, sci-fi, computer games and the latest technology, the works are printed digitally onto large pieces of acrylic the same… Read more...

Feature Opera North's Little Voices

Tom Goodhand attends a drama and music group designed for parents and their babies or toddlers in the wonderful Howard Assembly Room

Opera North has long been established as one of Leeds’ premier arts companies, and the opening of the Howard Assembly Room in January 2009 gave them a home, a venue that they can call their own. The room has acted in the past as a musical hall, a cinema and an adult cinema, before closing in the mid-80s until Opera North reopened it.

As a built-for-purpose venue which… Read more...

News New Gallery GreySpace Gives Fresh Perspective on Art

New gallery space opens at Broadcasting House showing works in progress

Remember maths exams where you got marks for the working out? Well new gallery GreySpace seems to think the world of equations is onto something – sometimes how you get to the end result is just as important as the outcome itself.

Bringing an exciting new idea to the art world, GreySpace Galleries will be exhibiting pieces which are not the final works, but the precursors, mapping a trajectory of… Read more...

News Yorkshire Arts Organisations ‘Hacked’ As Part of Leeds Digital Festival

Opera North organised a special 24 hour hack event to show the wealth of information stored by the north's cultural organisations

When we think of the word "hack" nowadays we normally associate it with identity theft and fraud but on 12^th-13^th November many major cultural institutions from the North happily opened up their digital archives as part of Culture Hack North: Leeds 2011.

The group of 50 computer hackers spent 24 hours in teams using the fountain of information at their tech-savvy finger tips to develop innovate and inspired "hacks". For… Read more...

Preview United Enemies, Leeds Henry Moore Institute

An ambitious exhibition looking at a diverse range of experimental British sculptors working in the 60s and 70s

We’re all feeling a bit under the weather at the moment. The lack of sunshine and miserable weather means that we are all beleaguered by an eternal winter cold. But an unusual exhibition at Leeds Henry Moore Institutemay help you feel better – it’s not only visually pleasing, making it good for the soul, it is also good for the body, too: one of the sculptures offers a boost… Read more...

News Britain's Got Artists Competition Launches

Win a chance to have you work on show at Leeds Art Gallery

Are you Britain’s next Tracy Emin or Damien Hirst? A new competition to find the country’s freshest artistic talent opens on 1st January 2012 and will be offering 50 applicants the chance to be exhibited in Leeds Art Gallery.

Britain’s Got Artists is open to everyone over the age of 16 and costs £3.50 per submission. This inaugural competition will accept only paintings, but hopes to open the contest… Read more...

News The Art Gallery at Flannels Opens

Third floor of the Vicar Lane fashion store becomes a new gallery

Flannels is the home of a new, vibrant art gallery which is open now week on the Third Floor of the shop on Vicar Lane.

This new gallery is a budding enterprise between Leeds City College and The Flannels Group which will be showcasing work from its students and teachers alike. This exciting new venture brings together art appreciation and fine dining as the gallery shares its location with… Read more...