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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · 3h

Professor Abigail Harrison Moore will speak about ‘Whose Power? Learning from Leeds Museum’s Preservative Party’ at the John Roles Memorial Lecture 2025

📅 Thursday 9 October, 18:00–19:30

📍 Leeds Museum
Millennium Square
Leeds LS2 8BH

Book your place 👇

www.leedsphilandlit.org.uk/shop/john-ro...

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · 1d

Carried Over is an exhibition of student work shaped by a year abroad.

📅 8-10 October, 12-4pm

📍 Project Space
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University Road
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
Leeds LS2 9JT

Find out more 👇

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...

Poster design for Carried Over exhibition by Caitlín O’Doherty. Photograph by Olympia Kopiec.

School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · 5d

Heritage Show + Tell - speakers announced!

7 three-minute talks have been confirmed so far for the return edition of Heritage Show + Tell on 9 October at Leeds Central Library.

Full details including how to book your place 👇

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · 5d

BA History of Art student Robin Stones is one of 27 artists to have work displayed in a new #Zine Library at the #ManyHands exhibition @sunnybankmills.bsky.social

Created in collaboration with Working Class Creatives, the exhibition runs to 5 October.

More info 👇

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/new...

Zine Library at the Many Hands exhibition, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds. Photo by Harry Meadley.

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · 5d

Last chance to see the current exhibition in our Project Space – Pictures of Tilling and Weaving by Dr Louise Atkinson.

Open today until 4pm in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Free, all welcome! 👇

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...

Image shows augmented reality in action at the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving exhibition in Project Space. Photo courtesy of Rob Knifton.

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · 13d

Join us at this symposium to explore the meaning, materiality and making of Chinese export wallpaper throughout history, organised as part of the #IfWallsCouldTalk project

📅 26 Sept, 12:30–19:00

📍 Newlyn Building @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Book your place:

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...

A scene of tea production from the wallpaper at Harewood House. Image credit: Harewood House Trust.

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · 15d

Pictures of Tilling and Weaving – a new exhibition by Dr Louise Atkinson – is now open!

📅 Open weekdays 12-4pm until 3 Oct (except 26 Sept)

📍 Project Space
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
@universityofleeds.bsky.social

Find out more 👇

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 21d

Direct from emerging creatives, hear from all of our FUAM Graduate Art Prize Finalists. Watch the full videos on our YouTube channel bit.ly/LULGYouTube

And pick your winner for the People's Choice Award - the art prize that's chosen by you!

Leeds University Library Galleries

Highlights from Cultural Collections & Galleries at the University of Leeds Free and open to all. Visit us at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Treasures of the Brotherton, and Brotherton Research…

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · Aug 8

Now open!

FUAM 2025: The Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize 🎨🏆

Discover the freshest talent from Leeds’ art scene!

Each year a panel of judges select 4 finalists from @fahacs.bsky.social and School of Design @universityofleeds.bsky.social

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Room shot of the FUAM 2025 exhibition, a large white room with hanging brown textiles, warm lampshades, a grey architectural model, and ceramics on a wooden table.

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · Sep 4

Who doesn’t love Paula Rego? Meet FUAM 2025 finalist, Esme Mclean ⭐️

Hear how she infuses family memories into miniature ceramic scenes as she explains the influences behind her artworks 🏠

It's a personal insight into creative practice and studying @universityofleeds.bsky.social @fahacs.bsky.social

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · 15d

📣 Heritage Show + Tell is back!

And there's still time to change the future of heritage in Yorkshire in just three minutes!

Last seen in 2018, we are returning rested and refreshed on 9 October. Find out more about our call for speakers & how to book your place:

ccsmgh.leeds.ac.uk/events/herit...

Image features ‘Georgian? hourglass’ from the Wellcome Collection. License: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 21d

Fibres, fishing nets, and our final FUAM 2025 finalist... It’s Alice Boot! ⭐️

Explore scavenged sculptures, inspired by the seashore, as they explain the influences behind the artworks 🐚

It's a personal insight into creative practice and studying
@universityofleeds.bsky.social @fahacs.bsky.social

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University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social · 20d

Considering studying at Leeds? 🎓

Join us for our Open Days on Saturday 4 and 18 October to learn about your course and get a feel for campus life.

You can also explore ⬇

🏋️‍♀️ The Edge gym and sports centre
📚 Libraries
👥 Leeds University Union
🌐 HELIX, our digital innovation space
🏠 Accommodation

Two people stood near Beech Grove Plaza, University of Leeds. One of them is holding an Open Day booklet in their hand.

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Helen Graham @helengraham.bsky.social · 23d

I'd had quite a bit of trouble working out why facilitating participation in museums was tricky so I wrote a book about it. @uclpress.bsky.social @fahacs.bsky.social

The front cover of a book. The title reads Deconstituting Museums: Participation's Affective Work. The image is of old rope, enwtined for strength but now fraying.

The image is primarily text. The text reads:

Over the past 30 years, museums have turned to participation in the hope that direct involvement of non-museum staff would serve their claims to be accessible, inclusive, representative and diverse. And yet, adding participation to museums has often generated conflict, disappointment and anger.

Deconstituting Museums argues that the difficulties produced by adding participatory practice arise from political incompatibility. In the representational liberal logics that underpin museum decision-making, trustees and professionals make decisions ‘on behalf of’ future generations and the public. This is a political infrastructure the book names ‘museum constitution’. Conversely, participation arises from ideas and practices from direct and horizontal political traditions, drawing those who act as facilitators into new relationships and expanding political imaginations.

Through sustained engagement with theories of affect, materialism, and feminist and decolonial praxis, Helen Graham identifies techniques for deconstituting museums. She uses experimental writing as a method to turn away from the desire to right institutional wrongs and towards relational and directly negotiated ways of organising. In doing so she locates participation not as engagement but as a mode of governance that is enabled by, and enables, variant political ontologies. This is an alternative named ‘participatory worlding’. The affective work of facilitating participation has long tugged at and frayed museums’ constitutional liberal logics. Deconstituting Museums envisages how participation and its affects might be activated in reworking the politics of heritage.

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · 22d

A new book by @helengraham.bsky.social – Deconsituting Museums: Participation’s Affective Work – has been published by @uclpress.bsky.social

Dr Helen Graham’s book explores why participation – the direct involvement of non-museum staff in museums – has been so hard.

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/new...

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Congratulations to the five graduating #MA #FineArt students who presented an amazing degree show last week @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Find out more about the #exhibition and the artists in this new article on our website:

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/new...

Photos by Mark Bickerdike.

School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Danny Burns and Jo Howard: In Conversation with Jade French

📅 Thurs 11 Sept, 4-5pm

📍 School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies & online

Join us for an in-conversation event organised by the Participation & Social Practice Research Group

Book here 👇

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...

School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · Sep 6

Last chance to see The Inside and Outside of Belonging - this year's MA #FineArt #DegreeShow

Open today (Saturday 6 Sept) from 10am-5pm

📍 School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University Road
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT

Free, all welcome!

👇

insideandoutside.leeds.ac.uk

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · Sep 1

We're celebrating this year's MA Fine Art Degree Show – The Inside and Outside of Belonging – with an evening private view on Tuesday 2 September, 6-8.30pm.

If you'd like to join us, please RSVP to [email protected]

School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · Aug 27

This year's MA #FineArt #DegreeShow – The Inside and Outside of Belonging – launches on Tuesday 2 September & runs to the 6th!

#AnnieGreenwood #HsinTien #HuayuZhang #KirstinHarvie & #IsobelRichards will present an exploration of what it is to belong

Full info 👇

insideandoutside.leeds.ac.uk/about/

Poster for The Inside and Outside of Belonging exhibition taking place at the University of Leeds from 2 to 6 September 2025. Images shows a film still from Returning to Sundays, digital video with sound by Annie Greenwood, 2025.

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University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social · Aug 21

Registration for our October Open Days is now open 📣

Join us on Saturday 4 and 18 October to explore our beautiful campus and find out more about your course.

Our Open Days are the perfect chance to see what Leeds is all about.

Book your place 👉 bit.ly/47E17Pj

Open Day attendees stand outside the Great Hall, speaking to staff. There is a large flag saying "Great Hall" and a stand that has event timings on it.

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · Aug 27

This year's MA #FineArt #DegreeShow – The Inside and Outside of Belonging – launches on Tuesday 2 September & runs to the 6th!

#AnnieGreenwood #HsinTien #HuayuZhang #KirstinHarvie & #IsobelRichards will present an exploration of what it is to belong

Full info 👇

insideandoutside.leeds.ac.uk/about/

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · Aug 15

Explore the work by graduates from @fahacs.bsky.social and School of Design @universityofleeds.bsky.social

FUAM 2025: The Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize 🏆

8 August - 1 November
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Free and open to all

Plan your visit: bit.ly/FUAM2025

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Finalist Alice gestures whilst talking to two visitors, one holding a bouquet of flowers.

Finalist Esme gestures whilst presenting a talk in front of her work, a colourful miniature model home filled with ceramic figures and furniture.

A visitor takes a photo on their smartphone of a large, burlap textile piece hanging in the centre of the exhibition.

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · Aug 5

In a new article, Postgraduate Researcher Izzy Bartley discusses a recent colloquium at the University of Leeds, organised with ‪@owenhodkinson.bsky.social

The colloquium gave researchers a platform to showcase a wide range of intersections between history & games:

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/new...

The board game 'Ticket to Ride: India' was played as part of Izzy Bartley’s research project. Photo by Izzy Bartley.

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social · Aug 5

BA #FineArt (International) graduate Lola Pugh-Cordero is taking part in #NationalPlayDay

📅 6 August

📍 Artspace, Leeds Art Gallery

Families are invited to explore art through touch, movement & a shared imagination, through Lola’s soft, tactile sculptures:

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Lola Pugh-Cordero with Pink Squig at the Make No Bones BA Fine Art Degree Show 2025, University of Leeds. Photo by Andy Lord.

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · Aug 4

Be the first to meet our finalists, before FUAM 2025 opens this week! 🥳

This annual showcase gives graduates from the School of Design and @fahacs.bsky.social a spot in our Galleries

Get ahead of the game, and get to know the four selected finalists...

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