It seems obvious to say that artists are very important to Leeds Art Gallery as without them we wouldn’t have artworks to display. What is not so obvious is that artists are active in the Gallery in lots of ways.
They work in the Gallery’s offices… enjoy activities in Artspace…lead workshops…participate in events as dancers, readers, writers, actors and musicians…drink and serve coffee in the Café…host meals help plan and arrange exhibitions…make art from paper clips, cardboard, elastic bands and string…manage groups on visits…listen to lunchtime talks and seminar…organise the Library and archive…look after, repair and safeguard art…talk to visitors…hang out…
We believe that anyone can be an artist. We encourage creativity and imagination within our building and our online resources. We invite everyone to be excited by and take part in making, exploring and talking about art.
This blog will feature the artists that are active within Leeds Art Gallery. They could be visitors, Gallery workers, workshop participants, collection or exhibition artists, blog contributors or comment leavers. We open the blog ‘Artists in the Gallery’ with a question: what is an Artist?
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Family-fun to celebrate Childrens Art Day. ..
Working together, turn feelings about a favourite painting from Leeds’ Collectons into symbols and then leave them in front of artworks for others to add to. Giant collective responses will be the outcome.
Activities start in Artspace, drop in when you like on Saturday 11 July 11.00am - 2.30pm!
More information about Children’s Art Day.
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Tagetting families with young children up to 7 years old. 10.00am - 12 noon. Young people ( 8years+) with their carers. 1.00pm - 3.00pm.
This activity is based around exciting experiments with paint led by local artist Abigail May.
Please wear easily washable clothes. £5 per place. Booking is required, please call 0113 247 8254 to reserve a place and please book by the 20th July or 12th August respectively.
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In-between the Lines
Linked to Gallery Artworks and the Artspace, Leeds Art Gallery is offering exciting drawing events through the Summer holidays called In-between the Lines. This workshop is for young people to help produce a Leeds city art gallery colouring in book!
The workshops aim to help families gain confidence in themselves as individuals, discoverers, artists and thinkers…
You can also have a go at home!
Follow these 4 simple steps
1) Dowload the in-between-the-lines-sheet and have a look at this example that was used for a family event to give you some ideas!
2) Draw an artwork from Leeds art gallery either from memory or from looking at images online
3) Take a photograph of your colouring in sheet
4) Upload it on the Artwall!
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16th June is recognised the world over as ‘Bloomsday’, celebrating the day on which James Joyce, one of the 20th century’s key modernist authors, set the action of his novel ‘Ulysses’. In this special event art curators from across the region will be reading out loud and live from the book.
Turner-prize winner and one of Britain’s most original artists, and the artist behind the Gallery’s current exhibition ‘The Russian Linesman’, Mark Wallinger investigates here many of the issues that have concerned him as an artist over the past 25 years, including the work of Joyce as an abiding influence on his own practice. In 1982, Wallinger journeyed to Dublin to take part in the centenary ‘Bloomsday’ celebrations; an archive recording of James Joyce himself reading the final section of ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ ‘bookends’ the exhibition.
Curators from the city and further afield will be lending their voices for free to this special event which runs throughout Gallery opening hours. In some ways it’s a question of them ‘singing for their supper’ as Gallery visitors will be asked to consider making a donation to the LACF (The Leeds Art Collections Fund), the charitable body which helps the Gallery acquire works of art for the collection.
The exhibition ‘Mark Wallinger curates The Russian Linesman’ continues until 28 June.
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Show your artworks at Leeds Art Gallery. Upload your creative ideas to the Artwall and curate your own collection. Choose from the seven categories and assign your artwork to these classifications: Drawing, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Prints, Sculpture or Street.
Or upload on the move and SMS your images to 07740 40 41 42, and one of the collections team at the gallery will classify your artwork for you.
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Artspace Online forms an end point of a two year consultation period that set out to address the use of digital technologies in Leeds Art Gallery’s community, education and interpretation strategies.
The initiatives and projects that specifically fed into the development of Artspace Online were:
Hidden Histories
2007
Funded by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council as part of the Designated Challenge Fund.
Artspace - a consultation
Early 2008
Funded by Renaissance Yorkshire; a design collaborative partnership between Leeds Museums and Galleries and Leeds Metropolitan University.
Artspace - a consultation II
2008 - 2009
Funded by Renaissance Yorkshire; further discussions and projects took place in looking specifically at the use of technology in Artspace. We worked with students and lectures at Leeds College of Art and Design, worked with Members of the Lazer Centre in Armley, The Chapeltown Young Peoples 10-2 Club, Thomas Danby College, The Project and Leeds Youth Service at the Prince Phillip Centre.
Artspace Online
2009
It soon became possible to push forward with the creative ideas that the above projects and consultations encouraged. We invited a number of the young people
That had already contributed to the development so far to work with The Digital Learning Agency and ourselves on the final stages of Artspace Online’s development. Eight young people (aged 17 - 21) took us up on the offer and contributed to the design, look, feel and content of the site as it now stands.
Artspace Online Opens
Summer 2009
It was with these debates that shaped Artspace Online into how excites now nevertheless, our conversations should not stop. Artspace Online is Leeds Art Gallery’s open space for debate with you. It is your space to have a say
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