This month the Love Arts festival, which encourages and celebrates creativity, opened across Leeds. My contribution to the event was part of the ‘This is Me’ exhibition at the beautiful… Read more This is Me – Always an Alien →
Recently opened at the Tetley in Leeds, Painting in Time is a collection of works by different artists which push the boundaries of paint away from the static and towards including changing,… Read more Art Room: Painting in Time @ The Tetley, Leeds →
Opening today at the Henry Moore Institute are two new shows which cast distinctly different eyes over the techniques, environments and possibilities of sculpture. In Galleries 1, 2 and 3, the… Read more Art Room Review: Carol Bove/Carlo Scarpa & Gareth Evans @ the Henry Moore Institute →
Recently opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Back to Land is a collection of work by the influential Castleford-born artist, Henry Moore. Over a very varied career, Moore’s prolific output ranged from monumental sculptures – like… Read more Art Room Review: Henry Moore – Back to Land at Yorskshire Sculpture Park →
Just opened at Leeds Art Gallery, One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People is a diverse exhibition of works exploring the figure in art. It takes its name from a… Read more Art Room Review: One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People at Leeds Art Gallery →
A new exhibition opened today at the Hepworth Wakefield, focusing on the fifty year career of Lynda Benglis. Born in America, Benglis drew on Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Minimal Art… Read more Lynda Benglis @ The Hepworth Wakefield →
This being a particularly cold and icy January, it has felt harder than usual to get to new places in the last week. Happily, the familiar environments of Leeds City… Read more New Places: The Labours of Herakles @ Leeds City Museum & Japanese Sculpture @ the Henry Moore Institute →
One of the resolutions I’ve found myself making for 2015 (despite having vowed I’d make no such thing) is to visit more new places. I began with a trip with a friend to… Read more New Places: Jerwood Drawing Prize @ The Tetley, Leeds →