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.