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The School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies is one of the largest and most exciting centres in the UK for aspiring cultural practitioners to hone their creative and critical skills, and broaden their intellectual horizons.
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Beyond Redemption is a provocative solo show by graduating MA Fine Art student Kirstin Harvie, exploring the boundaries of crime, justice and identity.

Open until 2 November at the Hunter Saville Cumbrae Studio & Gallery on the Isle of Cumbrae.

Find out more 👇

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October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Light Night Leeds 2025: A Midnight Hop by fine art graduate Anya Thompson

📅 22 & 23 October, 6-10pm

📍 Michael Sadler Building
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Journey through an enchanting dreamlike landscape of glowing rabbits darting across a starry night sky:

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October 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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A new exhibition featuring photography by fine art @leedsalumni.bsky.social Hannah Guy opens at Assembly House on 16 October

Catching Forty Winks showcases work by #HannahGuy #ReeceKelly & #AlegriaRepilaSmith – all Accelerator Bursary recipients for 2025

More info👇

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Photo shows Hannah Guy in her studio at Assembly House, Leeds. Photo © Hannah Guy.
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Last chance to book for 'Museums and participation: What is it, exactly, that we’ve been doing?' with speakers Bernadette Lynch and Helen Graham.

📅 Thursday 16 October, 14:00 – 15:30

📍 Online

Find out more & book your place 👇

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Bernadette Lynch and Helen Graham
October 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Professor Abigail Harrison Moore will speak about ‘Whose Power? Learning from Leeds Museum’s Preservative Party’ at the John Roles Memorial Lecture 2025

📅 Thursday 9 October, 18:00–19:30

📍 Leeds Museum
Millennium Square
Leeds LS2 8BH

Book your place 👇

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October 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Carried Over is an exhibition of student work shaped by a year abroad.

📅 8-10 October, 12-4pm

📍 Project Space
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University Road
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
Leeds LS2 9JT

Find out more 👇

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Poster design for Carried Over exhibition by Caitlín O’Doherty. Photograph by Olympia Kopiec.
October 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Heritage Show + Tell - speakers announced!

7 three-minute talks have been confirmed so far for the return edition of Heritage Show + Tell on 9 October at Leeds Central Library.

Full details including how to book your place 👇

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October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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BA History of Art student Robin Stones is one of 27 artists to have work displayed in a new #Zine Library at the #ManyHands exhibition @sunnybankmills.bsky.social

Created in collaboration with Working Class Creatives, the exhibition runs to 5 October.

More info 👇

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Zine Library at the Many Hands exhibition, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds. Photo by Harry Meadley.
October 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Last chance to see the current exhibition in our Project Space – Pictures of Tilling and Weaving by Dr Louise Atkinson.

Open today until 4pm in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Free, all welcome! 👇

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Image shows augmented reality in action at the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving exhibition in Project Space. Photo courtesy of Rob Knifton.
October 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Join us at this symposium to explore the meaning, materiality and making of Chinese export wallpaper throughout history, organised as part of the #IfWallsCouldTalk project

📅 26 Sept, 12:30–19:00

📍 Newlyn Building @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Book your place:

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A scene of tea production from the wallpaper at Harewood House. Image credit: Harewood House Trust.
September 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Pictures of Tilling and Weaving – a new exhibition by Dr Louise Atkinson – is now open!

📅 Open weekdays 12-4pm until 3 Oct (except 26 Sept)

📍 Project Space
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
@universityofleeds.bsky.social

Find out more 👇

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September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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📣 Heritage Show + Tell is back!

And there's still time to change the future of heritage in Yorkshire in just three minutes!

Last seen in 2018, we are returning rested and refreshed on 9 October. Find out more about our call for speakers & how to book your place:

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Image features ‘Georgian? hourglass’ from the Wellcome Collection. License: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
September 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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A new book by @helengraham.bsky.social – Deconsituting Museums: Participation’s Affective Work – has been published by @uclpress.bsky.social

Dr Helen Graham’s book explores why participation – the direct involvement of non-museum staff in museums – has been so hard.

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The front cover of a book. The title reads Deconstituting Museums: Participation's Affective Work. The image is of old rope, enwtined for strength but now fraying. Cover art by Clifford Hayes.
September 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Congratulations to the five graduating #MA #FineArt students who presented an amazing degree show last week @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Find out more about the #exhibition and the artists in this new article on our website:

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Photos by Mark Bickerdike.
September 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Danny Burns and Jo Howard: In Conversation with Jade French

📅 Thurs 11 Sept, 4-5pm

📍 School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies & online

Join us for an in-conversation event organised by the Participation & Social Practice Research Group

Book here 👇

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September 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Last chance to see The Inside and Outside of Belonging - this year's MA #FineArt #DegreeShow

Open today (Saturday 6 Sept) from 10am-5pm

📍 School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University Road
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT

Free, all welcome!

👇

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September 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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This year's MA #FineArt #DegreeShow – The Inside and Outside of Belonging – launches on Tuesday 2 September & runs to the 6th!

#AnnieGreenwood #HsinTien #HuayuZhang #KirstinHarvie & #IsobelRichards will present an exploration of what it is to belong

Full info 👇

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Poster for The Inside and Outside of Belonging exhibition taking place at the University of Leeds from 2 to 6 September 2025. Images shows a film still from Returning to Sundays, digital video with sound by Annie Greenwood, 2025.
August 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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In a new article, Postgraduate Researcher Izzy Bartley discusses a recent colloquium at the University of Leeds, organised with ‪@owenhodkinson.bsky.social

The colloquium gave researchers a platform to showcase a wide range of intersections between history & games:

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The board game 'Ticket to Ride: India' was played as part of Izzy Bartley’s research project. Photo by Izzy Bartley.
August 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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BA #FineArt (International) graduate Lola Pugh-Cordero is taking part in #NationalPlayDay

📅 6 August

📍 Artspace, Leeds Art Gallery

Families are invited to explore art through touch, movement & a shared imagination, through Lola’s soft, tactile sculptures:

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Lola Pugh-Cordero with Pink Squig at the Make No Bones BA Fine Art Degree Show 2025, University of Leeds. Photo by Andy Lord.
August 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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The latest iteration of Enfolded Journeys - an open call touring exhibition of artists’ books made in response to themes suggested by the title - is open at Dunoon MOCA until 2 August.

The exhibition is curated by Professor Chris Taylor & John McDowall.

Full info 👇

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Chris Taylor with 'Scotch Street / English Street', digital photograph, 2023. Corrine Welch, 'Diaspora', 2025
July 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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An exhibition celebrating the life & work of Wakefield artist Cynthia Kenny (1929-2021) includes work by artist & Postgraduate Researcher Michelle Duxbury

@alabamathirteen.bsky.social brings Kenny’s artworks to life with a new soundscape &creative audio descriptions

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July 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The final day of the #ArtTeachersConnect Residential is under way!

The teachers are currently working in @lulgalleries.bsky.social Cultural Collections.

Next they'll be making art inspired by a diversity of art histories & thinking critically about the power of art education in the UK today.
Art created by teachers at the Art Teachers Connect Residential 2025. Teachers at the Art Teachers Connect Residential 2025.
July 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Day 2's afternoon programme for the #ArtTeachersConnect Residential included the opportunity to take part in practical sessions in our technical spaces, exploring thinking through practice

Group 2 were introduced to casting in a workshop led by our Casting & Ceramics Technical, #FernandaCortes
Clay objects Creating sculptures from clay in a casting studio
July 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Day 2 of the #ArtTeachersConnect Residential!

Having performed a masked procession through the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies – inspired by Hew Locke's The Procession – teachers moved on to a #DiscoveryDay in @lulgalleries.bsky.social Cultural Collections.
July 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The #ArtTeachersConnect Residential is back on the @universityofleeds.bsky.social campus for 2025!

This amazing initiative provides critical advice, insight & experience from current art & art history teachers, academics and arts professionals.

Find out more 👇

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July 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM