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Protest & Pride – Art as Resistance

Opening night: Friday 15 August from 6:30pm – all welcome!⁠

We’re launching The People’s Gallery with our first ever exhibition and you’re all invited!⁠

Protest & Pride is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ creativity, protest and radical joy. This powerful show brings together artists using their work to speak up, resist, and connect, from political movements to personal acts of defiance.⁠

It’s about anger and celebration, resilience and visibility because art can be protest, and joy can be resistance too.⁠

The Sculpture Gallery August - Fernanda Cortes

Come and delve into the wonderful world of Fernanda Cortes and her truly mesmerising pieces; it promises to be a unique and captivating exhibition.

Fernanda is a Mexican artist known for her sculptural works, having gained a Master of Arts in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art, London.  As a sculptor of anthropomorphic, medium-sized ceramic figures, her themes explore human moral dilemmas, which she also explores through her written stories.

The Sculpture Gallery: Fernanda Cortes Launch

Come and delve into the wonderful world of Fernanda Cortes and her truly mesmerising pieces. Make a date for the preview on the evening of Thursday 7th August from 5:30pm to 8:30pm; it promises to be a unique and captivating exhibition.

Fernanda is a Mexican artist known for her sculptural works, having gained a Master of Arts in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art, London.  As a sculptor of anthropomorphic, medium-sized ceramic figures, her themes explore human moral dilemmas, which she also explores through her written stories.

Perpetuum

Join Transform for an immersive, deeply moving video installation presented in collaboration with Light Night and Yorkshire Dance.  

Choreographer Katja Heitmann collects and preserves ‘human movement’ in the Motus Mori archive. Over 2000 people, including from Leeds, have contributed their personal gestures to this archive.  

Exhibition Opening: FUAM 2025

Join us to celebrate the opening of FUAM 2025: The Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize.

Now in its 13th year, the FUAM exhibition showcases and celebrates the artistic talent of students completing BA studies in Art and Design and Fine Art at the University of Leeds in 2025. 

A panel of expert judges has selected four finalists for the prize. Join us to celebrate the work of these artists, and vote for your favourite in our People's Choice Award! 

This year’s finalists are: 

FUAM 2025: The Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize

Discover the freshest talent from Leeds’ art scene!

Celebrating its 13th year, the FUAM exhibition showcases the artistic talent of students completing BA studies in Art and Design and Fine Art at the University of Leeds in 2025.  

Our 2025 finalists are: 

Alice Boot (BA Fine Art) 

Esme McLean (BA Fine Art) 

Alexandra Rosenthal (BA Art & Design) 

Hannah Slater (BA Art & Design) 

Art Market at Leeds City Museum

Leeds Arts Union will be hosting a Freshers themed art market taking place at Leeds City Museum! This is not only open to our LAU students but to the public too!

Join us for the first LAU Art Market of 2025/26, where you can pick up amazing original art, prints, jewellery and accessories for yourself or a friend. All the items on sale are made by our LAU student makers. Don't miss out on grabbing some unique arty goodness to take home!

Back and Forth – 1960s & 1970s Photography Trail

To celebrate our 60th anniversary, we are pleased to present a city centre photography trail, showing street scenes from 1960s & 1970s Leeds.

‘Back and Forth’ is a six stop photography trail showing street photography from the 1960s and 1970s. Swing by the locations below and search for our photograph in their window. The photographs show the location on the trail 50-60 years ago. Spot the similarities and the differences in what you see around you, and what you see in the photograph.

The trail will run until mid-September 2025. The stops on the trail are:

Titanic: A Voyage Through Time

Titanic: A Voyage Through Time in Leeds offers an extraordinary virtual reality (VR) journey into history’s most famous ship! 

Dive to the wreckage as it rests today, then travel back to 1912 to experience the Titanic as a passenger. 

Walk the Grand Staircase, meet the people who shaped its story, and witness history firsthand in this breathtaking, immersive adventure!

Pyramid Summer Exhibition

Come along to Pyramid's summer exhibition at HEART in Headingley. This group exhibition showcases new, summer-inspired work by Pyramid artists.

Pyramid is dedicated to being as sustainable as possible in our arts practice and this project is no exception. All of the art on canvas has been created using canvases donated to us by Pinot and Picasso.