Leeds Inspired Illustrator Taaryn Brench
Earlier this year we commissioned Leeds based illustrator Taaryn Brench to create illustrations for some of our well used event pages like gigs, film listings and school holiday events.
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David Shearing - The Weather Cafe
The Weather Cafe was staged in a disused shop in the Headrow.
Art Doctors To The Rescue
Here at the Art Doctors, we have produced a series of very short films of the activities in our Toolkit for Gallery Visits.
Ellie Way's Leeds Travel Posters
It might be tricky to get away this summer but Ellie Way's Leeds Travel posters are a great reminder of why there's no place like home.
Ellie initially started designing posters of the local settings on her ‘one walk a day’ around Wakefield during the first national lockdown in 2020 to encourage positive conversations during an uncertain time and connect people to the places that were on their doorstep.
Made With Music - Accessible Mini-Gigs
Made with Music produced 3 sold-out Mini-Gigs for families at the Brudenell Social Club, working with Ed Heaton (Music Producer) and family support groups in Leeds (SNAPS, Little Hiccups, Sunshine and Smiles) who support families who have a disabled child or child with additional needs. The events promoted respect and inclusion between disabled and non-disabled communities through a shared love of music. By the second mini-gig 5 families who booked had a disabled child and by the third gig, 40% of families who booked had a disabled parent or child, some of whom we had never met before.
Leeds International Festival of Ideas
Sir Lenny Henry CBE, Kanya King CBE, Katherine Ryan and George Clarke lead keynotes plus compelling panel discussions featuring Evan Davis, Alix Fox, Gina Martin, and many more.
Leeds Film Festival Artist: Biserka
Our third artist commissioned to produce one of four Leeds Film Festival posters is Biserka, an embroidery artist from Newcastle, living and working in Leeds.
Biserka's work is figurative with strong narrative elements and explores the closeness between the two worlds we all inhabit; the ‘real’ world and that which exists within our own heads. 
Leeds Film Festival Artist: Louisa Foley
Introducing illustrator Louisa Foley; the first of the Leeds Inspired / Leeds International Film Festival poster artists. Louisa graduated from Leeds College of Art studying printed textiles and surface pattern design last year.
"My practice is heavily illustration based combining a number of different techniques including:
Shoddy Work
Gill Crawshaw introduces the ideas behind 'Shoddy', an exhibition of disabled artists’ work.
"This April Shoddy will bring together work which uses textiles and recycled fabrics in different ways, by artists from across the country. They responded to a call-out for work that challenges negative assumptions of disabled people, in an exhibition that aims to make the work of disabled artists more visible in Leeds.
Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle
Hello from the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle! Founded in 2011, we are a partnership of four arts venues that sit in close proximity – the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.