Our first exhibitions for the new year are now confirmed:

The Yorkshire Artists, Part 1

4 January – 25 January 2012

A selection of works from 6 contemporary artists either living and working in or originally from Yorkshire; pieces range from printmaking to oil and from abstract to landscape.

David Cook
Mark Sofilas
Helen Peyton
Tony Noble
Drew Ward
Leslie Child

Leeds Print Festival

26 January – 31 January 2012

Celebrating traditional and contemporary print process through type and image.

The one-week Leeds Print Festival 2012 at Leeds Gallery has a programme of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, open studios and performances covering all print disciplines. This unique collection of events will deliver a dose of inspiration whilst drawing attention to print and its importance in contemporary design culture.

For more information about this exhibition go to www.leedsprintfestival.com

Back to Basics

3 February – 17 March 2012

20 Years of Back2Basics artwork – more information coming soon.

The Yorkshire Artists, Part 2

19 March – 9 April 2012

Part two of our Yorkshire Artists show from January, more artists living and working in or originally from the Yorkshire area.

Colin Halliday
Tom Wood
More to be announced soon.

The weekend of 9 – 11 December is the 2011 Christmas Market at Leeds Gallery.

Friday 9 to Sunday 11 November
10am to 6pm

Leeds Gallery and Café 164 are collaborating to bring you a Christmas market on the 9th, 10th and 11th of December, from 10am – 6pm, with stalls selling a range of textiles, handicrafts, greetings cards, jewellery, cakes and sweets (including vegan cakes), holiday hampers, ornaments, clothing, wall art and much much more.

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening of the gallery and the private view of our first show.

Photographer Mark Dolby was there for Exposure Magazine and he took some fantastic shots of the event and of the gallery before it officially opened: http://www.markdolby.co.uk/2011/leeds-gallery-opening-for-exposure-leeds/.

Ed Waring for The Culture Vulture was also there; read his article here: http://theculturevulture.co.uk/blog/reviews/“i’ve-never-thought-of-myself-as-an-artist-it-was-just-what-i-did-”/.

Photograph by Mark Dolby.

Following the private view tonight, Leeds Gallery will be open Monday to Saturday from 15 September.
Opening hours are 10am – 6pm.

Photograph by Matthew Andrews.

We are excited to announce that the grand opening of Leeds Gallery will be on Wednesday 14 September 2011. Our exhibition Terry O’Neill: 50 Years at the Top will mark the official opening; we’ll be sending out invitations in the next few weeks. For enquiries about this event please send an email to events@leedsgallery.com. There will be previews of the exhibition before the official opening.

The infamous LLD weekly life drawing classes are now held at Leeds Gallery.

For more information go to: leedslifedrawing.com or go to twitter.com/LDSlifedrawing.