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SHEILA GAFFNEY - Others

Blenheim Walk

3 March - 1 April

An exhibition of lightboxes and sculpture created while artist in residence with Bradford Museums & Galleries during 2007-8 using the costume collection of Cliffe Castle Museum that archives the types of clothing that ordinary people have worn. Not just fine or expensive costumes, but rather nylon dresses from C7A and the hand-knitted woolly hats that you might have stuffed in the back of your wardrobe. Others refers to the people who might have once worn the items of clothing.

ROB RYAN

Blenheim Walk
31 January - 25 February

Rob Ryan was born in Cyprus in 1962 and studied at Trent Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. His much sought after work is painstakingly created by hand cutting delicate papers and these intricate works are either exhibited in paper cut form or developed as limited edition screen-prints, cards, books and other items, some of which will be shown in this small display.

MICK WELBOURN

Vernon Street

10 - 28 January

For the last fifteen years Mick Welbourn has mostly made collaborative work.

When not collaborating his output of artwork has often been about swimming pools.

The new works in this exhibition are not about swimming pools.

JOAN BROSSA / ANTONI TAPIES - Poems from the Catalan

Blenheim Walk


7 January - 31 January







Poems from the Catalan is an exhibition of avant-garde poetry and art inspired by 30 years of political oppression in the Catalan region of Spain, focusing on the collaborative work of Barcelona-born poet Joan Brossa (1919-1998) and artists Antoni Tapies (b.1923), which they produced in the early 1970s as a response to General Franco's Nationalist regime in Spain. This exhibition reflects their artistic and political concerns and they remain important figures in 20th century art, each now represented by their own Foundation in Barcelona.

Shown with the assistance of the Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.