http://www.artspaceonline.org Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 28 May 2010 09:23:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During June / July we will have some FREE artist-led workshops for Primary and High schools linked to art creation for the Open Show at Leeds Art Gallery. Every year, Leeds Art Gallery have an Open Show for artist's across Yorkshire. This year we have opened it up to the ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2010/05/coming-soon-free-art-workshops-for-schools/ Five (1991) by Lubaina Himid. Copyright: the artist. Activities in Artspace, Leeds Art Gallery. It is easy to forget that food ingredients and meals change all the time and that they were first made in different places around the world. Food can tell us a lot. Come to Leeds Art Gallery and ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2010/04/what-do-you-want-to-bring-to-the-table/ A special event for families @ Leeds Art Gallery Saturday 6 February 11.00am – 2.30pm in Artspace Explore our new exhibition Between Kismet and Karma and the different ways its artists show their experience of their home in South Asia. Afterwards make and exchange mementoes of your home town to share with your ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2010/03/speaking-out-loud/ I will be working in the Artspace creating a book of personal family stories, the images for which will be printed into a large old bound sample book. Using print and paint, stencils, collage and lettracet, I will layer text and images together, creating new stories from half-remembered family ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2010/02/family-fables/ Colour Memories 26 October  – 30 October 2009 Collect Colour / Collect Memories An art making workshop to coincide with the exhibition of  Hughie O’ Donoghue's paintings that investigate history, memory and myth. In the same way as Hughie’s paintings use the past as a subject  I will be in the Artspace collecting your ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2009/10/colour-memories/ HISTORY, MEMORY AND MYTH ALL PART OF 'THE JOURNEY' AT LEEDS ART GALLERY Royal Academician Hughie O'Donoghue paints bold, brave and expansive paintings. His powerfully figurative works often draw on influences from the old masters, and look at his favoured subjects of history, memory and myth through a lens of abstract expressionism. A ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2009/09/introducing-hughie-o%e2%80%99donoghue/ I am a visual artist creating images of landscape and space using a mixture of media (pastel, watercolour and oil paint). I use local landscapes as a starting point often working on-sight. The final pieces are worked up in the studio, many becoming more abstracted, and breaking down into simpler forms, ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2009/07/artspace-residency-abigail-may/ A collection of British Surrealism brought together by prominent  Leeds collector Dr. Jeffery Sherwin, will be on display at Leeds Art Gallery from 10th July. The exhibition will contain outstanding pieces including work by Eileen Agar, Roland Penrose, Henry Moore, Emmy Bridgewater and Conroy Maddox. Dr. Sherwin started collecting  in 1986 ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2009/07/jeffrey-sherwin-and-british-surrealism/ 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 ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2009/06/artist-at-the-gallery/ 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 ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2009/06/shape-a-feeling/