The Weight of Small Things brings together work by Karen Britcliffe and Richard Baker, two artists based in Leeds whose practices focus on the overlooked, the intimate and the fragile.
Karen Britcliffe’s delicate miniatures and assemblages use found materials to draw attention to traces of time and memory. Richard Baker’s quietly observed paintings capture everyday objects with a stillness that transforms them into something contemplative and enduring.
Out of the Blue presents an evening of conversation between curator Dr Kerry Harkerand artist Richard Baker, generously supported by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. Bringing together two leading voices from the region’s cultural landscape, the event will offer insight into contemporary painting and curatorial practice, exploring the ideas, influences, and processes that shape artistic work today. This is a free event and we expect a full house.
Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session. Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month!
There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.
There will be a rotation of both male and female life models and on occasion we will have multiple models in the same session.
Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session. Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month!
There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.
There will be a rotation of both male and female life models and on occassion we will have multiple models in the same session.
As a part of Leeds Open Studios 2025, Open Source Arts will have the studios open for you to have a look around and come say hi!
Free Entry.
This will take place in our studios which is only accessable via stairs.
The entrance is the door on the corner of 141 Kirkstall Road, Aire Place Mills.
Calling all 14 – 24 year olds! Join us for this special 'Magpie Minds' workshop inspired by our current exhibition, 'To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates'.
Author, performance and playwright Seki Lynch has developed a workshop exploring aspects of writing, creativity and curation. Seki will lead this workshop where participants will interact with the exhibition to investigate how we find patterns in colour, texture, tone, space, atmosphere, and experience. Using these lenses, we'll tap our creative wells to develop new ways of seeing and creating work.
Former vocalist with anarcho-punk band Flux of Pink Indians, Colin Latter brings his latest exhibition Proto-Type to Otley for a month-long exhibition at UpCo from September 12.
Born in Islington in 1961, Latter discovered painting as a teenager and has carried it alongside a career in furniture-making and design. His work has always had a strong visual thread, from creating fanzines and record sleeves in the punk scene through to his richly coloured paintings today.
Leeds-based artist Cassy Oliphant, of British and Singaporean-Chinese heritage, explores the fragile, shifting nature of memory and storytelling throughout her first solo show, Scattered Stories.
Drawing on folklore, family history, and biracial identity, her work uses textiles, cyanotype, and painting to piece together half-remembered tales and fading fragments.
A pilot 8-week course led by local professional artists. The course will explore heritage and community through different media such as photography, painting, drawing and written word, and end with a celebratory pop up exhibition.
The first session is a welcome, meet the group and learn about the course, with two week blocks focussing on a different idea and techniques.
Suitable for people with an interest in art and heritage and/or connection with the Baths. No experience necessary, age 16+. All materials provided but you are welcome to bring your own if you prefer.
There’s so much going on across Sunny Bank Mills this weekend for Heritage Open Days.
Come and see my new paintings of the sea at my studio at Unit 20, The Twisting at Sunny Bank Mills, the studios will be open as part of Leeds Open Studios weekend.
There are now over 40 of us and we make and produce a wide variety of work, we also will be doing free tea and coffee and rather nice cake!