Monday 13 December 2010

ARTISTS' BOOKS AND PERFORMANCE



Vernon Street

3 December - 4 February



This exhibition, held in the College library at Vernon Street, includes performance, music and sound interpreted through artists' books from the College collection. The display features work by Bob Cobbing, Elisabeth S. Clark, Sam Belinfante and Jayne Wilton (pictured).

Friday 10 December 2010

TOM PALIN





Blenheim Walk


13 December - 28 January







"We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things." (Marcel Proust)

To me, a painting is a document of undecidedness and possiblity. Its objecthood (material) and otherness (representation) allow for a perpetual to-ing and fro-ing between what is and what might be/what has been.

Monday 22 November 2010

IAN DICKSON - Punk!



Blenheim Walk

26 November - 28 January



Ian Dickson has been photographing the music scene since 1972 and his work has appeared in countless publications including NME, Mojo, Q and Rolling Stone. He has exhibited in the UK, Europe and the USA as well as at the MTV Awards, the Brit Awards and the World Music Awards.

All the work being exhibited here is from just two incredible years, 1976 and 1977, and features images of the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, the Jam, the Police, the Adverts, Siouxie and the Banshees, the Stranglers, Blondie, the Slits and many others.

AGENTS OF ANARCHY







Blenheim Walk


21 November - 2 January






Agents of Anarchy is a small display of prints and posters by artists directly involved, influenced by or loosely associated with the Punk movement. It includes work by Bonnie and Clyde (above), Richard Prince, James Cauty, Todd Slater, Rob Jones, Jamie Reid and others

MICHAEL CRAIG-MARTIN - Alphabet





Blenheim Walk


21 - November - 2 January







Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin in 1941 and educated in the United States, where he studied at Yale University under Josef Albers. As a tutir at Goldsmith's College he had a significant influence on two generations of young British artists.

Alphabet consists of 26 screen-prints, published by the Alan Cristea Gallery in 2007 in which the letters of the alphabet are overlaid with everyday objects and set against a background of vivid monochrome colours.

A Haywood Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London on behalf of Arts Council England.

Thursday 28 October 2010

Cherry Kino - My Love Has An Exquisite Corpse: Elemental Film





Blenheim Walk


9 - 19 November



Curated by Leeds and Bradford based Cherry Kino, this exhibition brings together works of an elemental nature which reveal the materiality of the medium of film. The exhibition will feature a filmic "exquisite corpse" collaborative creation on Super 8 and 16mm between students from Leeds College of Art as well as revealing how the five elements as understood in Chinese medicine - fire, earth, water, air and metal - affect the film material, revealing layers of intense texture, colour and form.

Monday 11 October 2010

PATRICK OLIVER




Vernon Street

25 October - 12 November



Patrick Oliver (1933 - 2009) both studied and taught at Leeds College of Art and was an important painter though little known outside Yorkshire and Cornwall. This exhibition of paintings, held fittingly in the Vernon Street building, demonstrates his unique talent as a painter.

Tuesday 21 September 2010

IMA PICO




Blenheim Walk


4 - 30 October




Ima Pico is a Spanish artist and digital muralist currently based in Manchester. Her recent work explores media saturation in contemporary culture, publicity, symbols and signage. She finds inspiration for her work in urban lifestyle, public advertising, publicity, store fronts and signs.

STEPHANIE VEGH




Blenheim Walk

4 - 30 October



Canadian artist Stephanie Vegh is based in Hamilton, Ontario. She studied at Glasgow School of Art (2003-2005) and at McMaster University, Canada (1999-2003) and has exhibted widely, in Canada, the UK and in China.

Stephanie frequently uses found books as the basis of her work which she manipulates and uses as her drawing surface in order to propose alternative histories of human progress.

Shown with the assistance of the Ontario Arts Council

ALISON GRAHAM - Metamorphosis

Blenheim Walk

4 October - 10 December

This exhibition of porcelain artworks is inspired by the ephemeral nature of colours and surfaces in the landscape of the Lake District where Alison grew up. Her artistic practice explores the physical and spatial relationships of colour and glaze, which are painted and printed from a plaster block onto the surface of thin sheets of porcelain paper-clay.

Alison studied at Cumbria Institute of the Arts and at the University of Wales and has exhibited widely both in the UK and in Europe.

Tuesday 24 August 2010

ex



Vernon Street

16 September - 8 October


ex is an annual show profiling a selection of artists who have recently graduated and are at the beginning of their careers. All the artists taking part completed their foundation course at Leeds College of Art and the exhibition highlights the quality and range of work being produced on some of Britain's leading fine art degree courses.

This year the exhibiting artists are Alice Brooks (above), Ruth Campbell, Tom Cookson, Lucy Crouch & Katherine Payne, Eleanor Hutchinson, Tim Pulleyn, Eleanor Purseglove, Arron Sands, Rachel Westerman and Josh Whitaker.

Friday 20 August 2010

JASON MUNN - The Small Stakes






Blenheim Walk


3 September -
25 February







California based graphic designer Jason Munn started The Small Stakes in 2003 and it has since become a successful independent design studio, producing nationally and internationally commissioned work in a range of print materials, including book covers, album packaging, t-shirt designs, screen printed posters and illustrations.

Jason's work has appeared in magazines such as Print, Communication Arts and Creative Review as well as being in the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This small display of Jason's posters demonstrates his unique and instantly recognisable style.

Friday 25 June 2010

E3 4RR




Blenheim Walk

30 July - 24 September





E3 4RR is an exhibition of work by artists represented by Matt's Gallery in East London including Jo Bruton, Fiona Crisp, Willie Docherty, Jimmie Durham, Susan Hiller, Melanie Jackson, Nathaniel Mellors, Mike Nelson, Avis Newman, Hayley Newman, David Osbaldeston, John Riddy, Matthew Ticle, Suzanne Treister and Alison Turnbull.

Friday 21 May 2010

Kevin Cummins - Joy Division





Blenheim Walk


28 May - 17 June








Kevin Cummins studied photography in Salford, embarking on a career that began with documenting the burgeoning punk scene in Manchester. He later became Chief Photographer for the NME where his award winning photographs were a major contributing factor in the rise of the Madchester scene. This exhibition concentrates on the iconic photographs that Kevin took of Ian Curtis and Joy Division.

The Duvet Brothers - Blue Monday

Blenheim Walk 28 May - 17 June

The Duvet Brothers have been making videos since the early 1980's, their work being a mix of recycled documentary, music and editing effects, pioneering an art form which became known as scratch video. Blue Monday is perhaps their best known work, set to the music of New Order and created during a period of social and political change, the decline of Communism and the rise of Thatcherism.

Adam Stone - View from a plinth

Blenheim Walk 28 May - 17 June

An exhibition by Adam Stone who spent one hour on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of the Antony Gormley project "Oneandother". During that time he captured 10 large format pin hole images.

Adam Stone studied at the Royal Academy schools and Leeds College of Art where he currently lectures in art and design.

Books & Artists

Blenheim Walk

28 May - 17 June

Books & Artists is a series of occasional short exhibitions on the first floor at blenheim Walk showing exampples taken from the College collection of artists' books. The often surprising work on display, by both local and international artists, from Black Dogs to Sophie Calle, allows a glimpse into this large collection of work.

Monday 26 April 2010

AARON MURPHY




Blenheim Walk

4 - 26 May





Aaron Murphy was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1978 and is a photographer and digital printmaker whose work is an experimental hybrid of historical sources and contemporary media. He studied filmmaking at Sheridan College in Canada from 1997 to 2000, and Fine Art at the University of Halifax, Nova Scotia and at The Slade in London.

Tuesday 20 April 2010

staring into nowhere . . .





Blenheim Walk



5 - 21 May




staring into nowhere . . . is a small exhibition taken mainly from the College collection and featuring work by artists such as Tek33, Cyclops, SweetToof, Miss Van, Chris Osburn and Jose Parla, whose origins lie in street art. The show includes paintings, drawings, prints, graffiti, books and photographs.

Friday 9 April 2010

VIVIENNE DICK Beauty Becomes The Beast




21 - 22 April

Blenheim Walk





Vivienne Dick was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1950 and studied at University College, Dublin. From 1977 until 1982 she lived in New York and was part of a group of filmakers whose affiliation to punk became known as "No Wave". Working mainly on Super8, Dick's films from this period feature many musicians from the punk movement in New York. Beauty Becomes The Beast was made in 1979 featuring Lydia Lunch in the lead role playing both a tormented five year old and a troubled teenage.

Shown in the Studio Theatre, Blenheim Walk on the following days and times

Wednesday 21st April 12.00noon - 1.00pm
Thursday 22nd April 5.00pm - 6.00pm

Free

Thursday 25 March 2010

AESTHETIC APPARATUS

Blenheim Walk

19 April - 18 June

A small display of gig posters along the main corridor of Blenheim Walk by Minneapolis based designers Aesthetic Apparatus.

SEAN KAYE AND JENNY WEST - Slow Revolution

Vernon Street 12 - 29 April

Sean Kaye and Jenny West began working together in 2006. Their practice uses strategies of limitation, translation and exchange in the production of distinct bodies of work.

This exhibition of new and recent work includes Mirror Mirror a series of paired drawings that highlight the fallibility of communication and translation in their construction and Reflection a series of video works exploring the relationship of balance, equilibrium and rhythm found in the monumental radio telescope at Jodrell Bank. The bookwork A Random Dispersal of Dust (Mutely Understood) will also be accompanied by related research material. This work is a word reveral of the short story The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges and is published by Wild Pansy Press.

In conjunction with the exhibition the film Slow Revolution will be shown at Hyde Park Picture House on Monday 26th April at 6.00pm - admission free.

www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk

Tuesday 16 March 2010

HAMISH FULTON


Vernon Street Library

17 March - 14 May






This small display of a wide range of work by Hamish Fulton has been taken from the extensive College collection.

Hamish Fulton was born in London in 1946 and studied at Hammersmith College of Art, St. Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Since the 1960's Hamish has been creating text and image work as well as sculpture in response to his physical contact with the surrounding landscape and since 1973, when he decalred that he would only make art resulting from the experience of individual walks, he has undertaken walks throughout the world.

Thursday 25 February 2010

CHOQUE CULTURAL

8 - 26 March

Choque Cultural is a contemporary art gallery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with strong links to underground culture, showing pop, outsider and young art in a highly original style. The exceptional silk screens on show feature work by some of the gallery's best known artists including Nuno Valerio, Silvano Mello, Daniel Melim and many others. For more information about Brazilian street art visit www.graffitibrasil.com or www.choquecultural.co.uk

LIZZY STEWART


10 - 26 March

Lizzy Stewart studied illustration at Edninburgh College of Art and since graduating in 2009 her illustrations have been seen in a wide range of publications from Juxtapoz to The Scotsman.

MAH RANA - Jewellery is Life


8 March - 26 March

Jewellery is Life, an exhibition by Mah Rana, who studied jewellery at the Royal College of Art and psychology at London Metropolitan University, highlights the ways we use jewellery to mark occasions and events, significant or the everyday. Through jewellery, issues of value, communication, personal and collective histories are explored. The work reflects the importance of owning, giving and wearing jewellery throughout our lives.

LEN LYE - Free Radicals


8 - 12 March











Len Lye was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1901 and is best known for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. Free Radicals, one of his most important films, will play on a continuous loop in the college from 8th March - 12th March.

Wednesday 20 January 2010

RICHARD DOWNER

22 February - 5 March

Richard Downer was a student at Leeds College of Art from 1949 - 1953. After completing his National Service he began an advertising career in London and following ten years as an Art Director became a Design Consultant where his creative work included corporate identities, publications for major companies, stamp designs and many typographical disciplines as well as designing British Telecom Telephone Directories - he illustrated the directories throughout Britain for fifteen years. Richard was a fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers and President of the Society of Typographic Designers.

He currently draws and paints from his London studio in Kentish Town and the exhibition includes many examples of his recent work as well as illustrations and designs