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.
Pyramid has partnered with Leeds Art Gallery on a new exhibition that celebrates the inspiration of dusk turning to night-time in John Atkinson Grimshaw’s work.
This exhibition features original artwork inspired by evening time from Pyramid members.
In the Artspace at Leeds Art Gallery.
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!
As has become tradition, we will be closing the exhibition with the Lunchtime Conversation. An opportunity for a home-cooked meal around the kitchen table here at BasementHQ and lively chat with the artist and other guests before a guided tour of the exhibition.
In a 21st Century world where connection and identity have become abstract concepts associated with nationhood and ideology rather than humanity, how do we reconnect with the essence of what it means to be human?
Featuring large-scale textiles, as well as ceramics, drawings, photography, and film, Plant Dreaming encourages us to think about different types of plant knowledge, and how they relate to ecopolitics and the self.
Poet and artist Briony Spandler has created an innovative visual poem, from observations made of a single hedgerow and its entanglement with litter. Weds – Sat 10am – 4pm, 11 – 31 Oct 2025.
A roam in the Leeds countryside led poet and artist, Briony Spandler, to create this innovative visual poem, from observations made of a single hedgerow and its entanglement with litter.
Exhibited as a series of gicleé prints, the poem features visually manipulated bar codes to illustrate the impact of single-use pollution on nature.