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David Cemmick Launch Event

We welcome David Cemmick as our guest for September, and sincerely hope you can join us and David for the preview on the evening of Thursday 4th September.

David’s work includes large-scale public commissions, and he has exhibited extensively, in the UK and overseas. Based in Cumbria, many roles have inspired his art, such as ​​ taxidermist, conservationist, illustrator, scientific field recorder, commercial figurine designer, lecturer and teacher, and figurative and animal artist. Recycling is another passion, including tearing and glueing deconstructed cardboard.

Sunken Studio Open Day

Explore the studio, meet the team, and take part in free hands-on sessions - drop in anytime.

Thinking about joining - or returning to - Sunken Studio? This is a relaxed and open invitation to come along, explore the space, and get to know how it all works before you commit to a class or membership.

Take a look around

Speak to the team and our members

Ask questions about courses, membership, and what to expect

Get a feel for how the studio runs day to day

We’ll be running two free drop-in activities throughout the day:

The Inside and Outside of Belonging – MA Fine Art Degree Show 2025

Artists Annie Greenwood, Hsin Tien, Huayu Zhang, Kirstin Harvie and Isobel Richards present an exploration of what it is to belong.

This exhibition – a culmination of our time studying at the University of Leeds – delves into the complexities of belonging, not belonging, and simultaneously belonging inside and outside of place, class, institution, memory, seasons and society.

Leeds Open Studios

This September, you are invited to go behind the scenes of the city's thriving creative community for the 3rd year of Leeds Open Studios – a one-day celebration of local talent taking place on Saturday 13th September.

Spanning beyond the city centre and across the wider Leeds area, this exciting event gives residents and visitors the rare opportunity to step inside working artists' studios, meet the makers, and experience the rich diversity of creative practices happening across the city.

Spirograph Family Fun Day

Add your work to our giant spirograph this half term.

Join us in the main hall of the museum to add your own artistic flair to a giant spirograph artwork. Feel nostalgic about this quirky, engineered game, and introduce the kids to it too!

Meet artist Lesley Halliwell, and find out about her dazzling, spiralling artworks. Make a spirograph keepsake to take home too.

This day is kindly sponsored by the Grammar School at Leeds.

The Picture Library Selection Weekend

Choose from hundreds of new original artworks as well as your old favourites to take with you and hang up at home for up to a year. There’s plenty to choose from whether you’re into landscapes or abstracts, historic or contemporary art, crazy about Matisse or passionate about Moore, there’s a work of art for everyone to enjoy at home.

Please note that selection weekend events are open from 11am – 2pm Thursday – Sunday.

The July selection days take place in Central Court on the first floor with lift access via Leeds Central Library. See above for upcoming dates.

'An Axis of Abstraction': Art in Cornwall and Yorkshire – Then and Now

Since the second half of the 20th century, there has been something of a cross-fertilisation between the respective art practices of West Cornwall and West Yorkshire. Cornwall, and in particular the harbour town of St Ives and its surroundings, has attracted artists since the late 19th century. In the early decades of the 20th century modern artists began to congregate in the area, while the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 saw the artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson seek sanctuary in nearby Carbis Bay.

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