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Lines of Enquiry: Drawings from the collection at Leeds Art Gallery

21 April 2026 – 11 April 2027 | Leeds Art Gallery | This display brings together a range of drawings from the Leeds Museums and Galleries nationally renowned works on paper collection which illuminate the varied roles sketches and preparatory drawings play in the creative process.

‘Some Steel’: Sculpture and Steel in Britain, 1960-90

31 January 2026 – 10 January 2027 | Leeds Art Gallery | Tracing the relationship between sculpture and steel over a period of thirty years,

We Bathe in Starlight

Leeds Art Gallery | 14 November 2025 - 19 April 2026 | A community exhibition of poems and prints in the Ziff Gallery by Arts & Minds members, inspired by artist John Atkinson Grimshaw’s paintings and the wider exhibition Don’t Let’s Ask for the Moon.

Plant Dreaming

Leeds Art Gallery | 14 November 2025 - 19 April 2026 | An exhibition of works on plants, and their real and imagined histories

'Don't Let's Ask For the Moon...': Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw

Leeds Art Gallery | 14 November 2025 - 19 April 2026 | Explore the poetic moonscapes of Leeds artist John Atkinson Grimshaw

Pyramid view on… John Atkinson Grimshaw

Leeds Art Gallery | 14 November - 19 April 2026 | This artistic response features original artwork created and curated by Pyramid member artists, inspired by the distinctive nocturnal scenes of 19th-century Leeds-born artist John Atkinson Grimshaw.

Mike Nelson: M62 (East, West)

Leeds Art Gallery | 12 July 2025 - 28 June 2026 | A new commission as part of Mike Nelson's blown out tyre series

Portrayals of Women

Leeds Art Gallery | 29 March 2025 - 5 April 2026 | A display from the works on paper collection exploring how women have been portrayed from the 1600s to the present day

'An Axis of Abstraction': Art in Cornwall and Yorkshire – Then and Now

Leeds Art Gallery | Until 7 June 2026 | Exploring Modernist artist practices in West Cornwall and West Yorkshire.
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