Summer

Take a tour of the artwork on being shown across Leeds in art galleries, cafes, museums, shops, community centres and outdoor spaces.

We've found beautiful ceramics, mind-blowing video installations, fine art shows, photography exhibitions, student showcases and sculpture work.

Take a look and see what's out there!

Image of molten metal pouring against a dark backdrop
Fri 4 Oct 2024 - Sun 15 Jun 2025
Karanjit Panesar: Furnace Fruit
Leeds Art Gallery
Exhibitions , Visual Art
A colourful selection of flyers, postcards and badges from Women's Aid, Leeds Animation Workshop and Feminist Archive North.
Tue 14 Jan 2025 - Sat 20 Dec 2025
Animated Activism: Women Empowered
Treasures of the Brotherton
Exhibitions , Visual Art
Miffy with a balloon
Fri 7 Feb 2025 - Sun 7 Sep 2025
Miffy's 70th Birthday
Leeds City Museum
Exhibitions
A close-up of Gemma Wood's sculpture, Vessel.
Thu 20 Feb 2025 - Sun 29 Jun 2025
Blood: Ties and Tensions
Thackray Museum of Medicine
Exhibitions , Museum , Visual Art
A painting of two young children in historic dress
Sat 1 Mar 2025 - Sun 12 Oct 2025
Fashion at Play: Children's clothing through the ages
Lotherton Hall and Estate
Exhibitions , Heritage
Artist admiring artwork - Flamingo Crossing
Tue 1 Apr 2025 - Mon 30 Jun 2025
‘Stand’ing with Flamboyance
Flamingos Coffee House
Exhibitions , LGBT+ , Visual Art
A pastel green hospital food tray on a pastel green table. In the left half of the tray are brown and purple spotted balls on sticks. In the right side of the tray is a wire basket filled with colourful pills.
Wed 2 Apr 2025 - Sat 19 Jul 2025
Sarah Roberts: SICK
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Exhibitions , Visual Art
A small circular glass disc etched with a drawing of a mountain on it in black and white. It is attached to a wall and gives a shadow underneath.
Fri 4 Apr 2025 - Sun 22 Jun 2025
Sarah Casey: Negative Mass Balance
Henry Moore Institute
Exhibitions , Visual Art
Fourteen everyday wooden objects, including a plug, chip fork, lolly stick, peg are arranged in a line on a wall. They have all been 'decorated' with different patterns of black lines, burnt by the sun.
Fri 4 Apr 2025 - Sun 22 Jun 2025
SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling
Henry Moore Institute
Exhibitions , Visual Art
Abstracted image of the Oak Stairacse at Temple Newsam
Fri 25 Apr 2025 - Sun 21 Sep 2025
Inspired by Temple Newsam: An artistic intervention with Leeds Fine Artists in response to Temple Newsam
Temple Newsam House and Estate
Exhibitions , Visual Art
In a large industrial space filled with dobby looms hangs a blood red textile piece infront of a sheer white backdrop.
Sat 3 May 2025 - Sun 6 Jul 2025
Loops
Sunny Bank Mills
Exhibitions , Visual Art
A gallery space with a green wall that has a framed drawing of a music shop and a sculpture of a creature in the space to the left.
Thu 8 May 2025 - Fri 20 Jun 2025
Flux & Hues: Khloe Baker and Rhubarbs
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Exhibitions , Visual Art