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).

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.

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.

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.

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.