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FAT BABY: University of Leeds MA Fine Art Degree Show

22.10.2024, by Charu Vallabhbhai

Two people watch a film on the large screen; the footage is of the canopy of trees seen from a forest floor

Oliver Ressler: Hothouse Planet Breakout

04.06.2024, by Sarah Pennington

A view of a wall with large strips of photographs hanging from a rail at the top down to the wooden floors. There are some smaller 10 by 15 cm sized black and white photos arranged around between the larger strips. In the foreground, to the bottom right, is a trestle table, the top a large sheet of board. There are a number of A4 sized paper documents under perspex displayed on it.

No Going Back

24.05.2024, by Benjamin Barra

Two painted school chairs, lips of seats touching. Beads hang from the backrest of one, the other has the words 'thE Next tIME FIRE' painted on the back.

The School of Mutants: All Fragments of the Word Will Come Back Here to Mend Each Other

05.03.2024, by Derek Horton

A group of adults and young children sit on the floor with a selection colourful paper and pencils.

Mothers Apart

03.02.2024, by Lara Eggleton

A roll of perforated orange plastic in front of a tent-like structure made from aluminium tubing

Katrina Cowling: Near to the Wild Heart

06.11.2023, by Saffron Ward

Layers of white gauze fabric hanging in a gallery, printed with images of skeletal grey trees.

We Live, Like Trees, Inside the Footsteps of Our Ancestors

07.07.2023, by Chloe Elliott

Four people are seated in front of a large projection screen at Brighton CCA Dorset Place; they are silhouetted in a darkened room. On the screen is a still image from 632700, showing an red and green abstract pattern around the edge, a central white circular band with a photograph of a den made from sticks in the woods inside the circle, a drawing of red and blue flowers in the bottom right, and a drawing of a person painting a landscape scene on canvas in the bottom left.

Anne-Marie Atkinson: ‘632700’

29.03.2023, by Michael Orr

A still from a CGI video essay. The background is black with small white lines marking out space, and navigation tools at the side of the screen. A 3D model of a mountain is in the centre, with green plants growing among white and grey rock.

Kyriaki Goni: Data Garden

18.03.2023, by Alasdair Milne

A black and white film still, in which a figure is starting to ascend a staircase in a south London tower block.

Jerwood/FVU Awards: Soojin Chang & Michael.

21.01.2023, by Tessa Norton

A draped piece of white knitted fabric is pinned against a white wall by a silver scaffold pole.

Jenny Beard and Connor Shields: Middle of The Road

28.11.2022, by Daniel Potts

A vertical screen showing a figure in a medieval-inspired dress, framed in a pixelated arch. To the right is a doorframe filled with perspex clouds held together in a grille structure. Behind is a computer terminal and a hanging painted curtain.

Ronnie Danaher: iConfess

06.08.2022, by Zara Worth

A wall with wood panelling in the lower half. On the upper half a collection of photographs, collages and drawings are arranged, with gold painted arrows and symbols connecting them.

Emily Hesse: The Witches’ Institution (W.I.)

27.07.2022, by Joanna Byrne

A plastic bag filled with soil sits in the middle of 4 concentric circles made of pieces of dried corn and beans.

Marwa Arsanios: Who Is Afraid of Ideology?

12.07.2022, by Jessica Piette

A photo of a hand held lighly against the front of a tshirt.

A reflection on CHASM: Live Art in isolation

16.06.2022, by Samra Mayanja

A painting depicting art deco style busts of butlers looking at two lobster-humans on a plate with a leaf of lettuce.

Justin Fitzpatrick: Alpha Salad

07.04.2022, by Louis D’Arcy-Reed

Northern Formations launch

06.04.2022

An image showing a few large painted canvvasses suspended from the ceiling and from wooden frames.

Beth Shapeero: The Shape of Things

09.02.2022, by Alice Bradshaw

3 sculptures resembling flagpoles hung with fringed material are positioned in the paved back garden of a red-brick terraced house.

On the street where you live: Threshold, a year in review

20.01.2022, by Saffron Ward

An image of a drawing on brown, distressed paper suspended by wires on top and gripped with hand-like clasps on the bottom.

Lily Lavorato and Amelia Wood: A Passing Place

02.12.2021, by Holly Grange

The artist stands beside a wavy sculptural wall installation, backlit.

YSI 2021: A summer of sculpture

14.10.2021, by Abi Mitchell

An image showing the full installation from a central perspective, with a grouping of sculptures and a clear view of the glass ceiling.

James Thompson: Spatial Drifts

23.09.2021, by Orla Foster

A close-up of a fabric assemblage, perhaps a quilt or garment. There is applique in various different fabrics and small shells are attached in two rows. There is a shape that looks like the earth as well as shapes suggesting waves and sea creatures. The colours are blues, purples and pinks with some deep yellow.

Zadie Xa: Moon Poetics 4 Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers

29.07.2021, by Martha Cattell

A black woman, with her hair tied up, stands in front of a sculpture in a church. Her arms are raised as though she is conducting music or dancing.

Preview: Yorkshire Sculpture International Summer 2021 Programme

07.07.2021, by Tessa Norton

James Thompson and Samra Mayanja performing 'Recording Performance II — Memorial to Queen Victoria statue' in Leeds, 2019.

Commemorative Space: Artist reflections on monumentality in Leeds

01.04.2021, by Emii Alrai, Simeon Barclay, Samra Mayanja, Jill McKnight and James Thompson; ed. Rebecca Senior

A photograph taken in an artist's studio, showing a long trestle table covered in overlapping drawings and studies.

Coincidence and Constellations

14.01.2021, by Cathy Garner

A collection of small clay and assemblage sculptures sit nestled in a black soil like shape

Emii Alrai: The High Dam

18.12.2020, by Holly Grange

A person in a mauve bodysuit stands in a living room with purple walls. Behind them are shelves with objects, to the side is a wooden dresser with shelves, a framed print, an old style gas fire topped with a potted plant.

Magnetic North: direction of travel at Compass Live Art

15.12.2020, by Pamela Crowe

A sculpture made of metal and feathers in the room of a historic house.

Kate MccGwire: Menagerie

31.07.2020, by Catriona McAra

A white wall gallery space with a lightwood floor and white pillars. Works are hung on the walls, and several people are gathered in the space.

Sara Barker: All Clouds are Clocks, All Clocks are Clouds

07.05.2020, by Holly Grange

A person's face wrapped in a face mask and bandages, with their hair covered by a cap. Two hands hold either side of their face to massage it.

Taus Makhacheva: Hold Your Horses

16.03.2020, by Pamela Crowe

A gallery space with several TV screens showing artist films. Benches can be seen in the background.

Empathic viewing in Mieke Bal’s Don Quichotte: Sad Countenances

28.02.2020, by Jaroslava Tomanova

A still from a film, showing the screen of a computer. The internet browser on screen resembles pornography sites in its format. The video shows a person lying flat on their back, they seem to be restrained with brown parcel tape.

Collecting the act of collecting in Harlan Whittingham’s films

12.01.2020, by Jaroslava Tomanova

Two colourful paintings hanging side by side in a gallery.

Slow Painting

22.12.2019, by Derek Horton

A series of white abstract and geometric sculptures in a white gallery space.

Edward Allington: Things Unsaid 

29.11.2019, by Tessa Norton

A black artist or performer stands at a microphone and music stand, their arms are flung wide. The background is white.

Call it what you like. Art as words, spoken and heard

21.11.2019, by Amelia Crouch