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A bright, colourful painting showing two people sat at a table eating cakes and pastries.

[uz], [uz], [uz]: Artists from Working-Class Backgrounds

Challenge your expectations in this landmark group exhibition.

Painting of three staff members behind a copper coloured bar. The person on the left is preparing food, the person in the middle is pulling a pint, and the person on the right is drinking from a glass. Behind them are various coloured bottles on shelves.

A Continuous Circulation: Artists and Art Education in Mid-century Leeds – Selections from the archive of Maurice de Sausmarez

Discover Leeds’ history as a centre for new thinking on art education, through the archive of an artist in the middle of it all.

A person with short brown hair and wearing a black shirt looks at a bronze bust of a man with a moustache on a wooden plinth. They are in a wood-panelled room.

Who am I to you?

Celebrate ten years of the Treasures of the Brotherton with a bold reimagining of our collection of portrait busts.

Life drawing sketches on pink and yellow paper

Life Drawing with Rob Oldfield

Join us in our monthly life drawing class with Gallery favourite, experienced artist and tutor, Rob Oldfield.

A person in a yellow dress holding a clipboard and writing in the middle of a museum space surrounded by glass cases. Behind them, two more people are looking at the displays.

Write on Wednesday

Drop in and write every Wednesday afternoon.

A colourful hexagonal block on a golden mirrored floor with golden spheres on threads hanging from the ceiling above it. In the background a person walks in front of a colourful multipaneled painting.

In Conversation: ‘Cultures of Memory’ – A Response to Turner Prize 2025 

The theme of memory in art is explored by a panel of artists, curators and academics, with reference to the Turner Prize 2025 and contemporary artistic practice.