Autumn

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!

The sculpture Torso III by artist Ro Robertson at Leeds Art Gallery.
Sat 23 Mar 2024 - Sun 7 Dec 2025
'An Axis of Abstraction': Art in Cornwall and Yorkshire – Then and Now
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
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
Helen Chadwick with her installation The Oval Court 1984-6
Fri 4 Apr 2025 - Sun 2 Nov 2025
Helen Chadwick: Artist, Researcher, Archivist
Leeds Art Gallery
Exhibitions , Visual Art
Oil painting of the artist Skye Davies as a child, set against a pink and green screen printed wallpaper
Tue 29 Apr 2025 - Sat 4 Apr 2026
Portrayals of Women
Leeds Art Gallery
Exhibitions , Visual Art
Gladiator Image on red background
Sat 28 Jun 2025 - Sun 2 Nov 2025
Gladiators: Heroes of the Colliseum
Royal Armouries
Exhibitions , Heritage , Museum
A blue ceramic tile featuring a scene of a river and vegetation and mountains.
Fri 11 Jul 2025 - Sun 16 Nov 2025
Friends of Beckett Street Cemetery 40th Anniversary Display
Abbey House Museum
Exhibitions , Heritage
A repeating pattern of objects that feature in the exhibition on a background that looks like lined notepaper, including a typewriter, medieval tile, ipod, laptop, champagne bottle, Victorian ladies boots, ancient Greek coin, old style library card, model of a building (the Moot Hall), variety of pens (quill, fountain and medieval stylus), ink well, police truncheon and a bird (stonechat)
Fri 11 Jul 2025 - Sun 8 Mar 2026
Literature in Leeds: Prose, Poetry and Plays
Abbey House Museum
Exhibitions , Heritage
Portrait photo of Mike Nelson
Sat 12 Jul 2025 - Sun 1 Feb 2026
Mike Nelson: M62 (East, West)
Leeds Art Gallery
Exhibitions , Visual Art
Newspaper image of a cinema audience wearing 3D glasses
Tue 15 Jul 2025 - Thu 16 Jul 2026
Reel-ise
Leeds Industrial Museum
Exhibitions , Heritage
Detail of an abstract sculpture, with burned materials and rusty chicken wire at the centre, with rusted metal bars bent around it.
Fri 18 Jul 2025 - Sun 2 Nov 2025
Fragment and Form: Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays, Dominique White
Henry Moore Institute
Exhibitions , Visual Art
A sculpture made from several brown leaves stuck together to make a cube shape
Fri 18 Jul 2025 - Sun 2 Nov 2025
Passing Strange: British Land Art Through Time
Henry Moore Institute
Exhibitions , Visual Art