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.