ABBEY HOUSE MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: closed
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat: 12 – 5pm
Sun: 10am – 5pm
Last admission: 4.30pm
Address
Abbey Walk
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
ABBEY HOUSE MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: closed
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat: 12 – 5pm
Sun: 10am – 5pm
Last admission: 4.30pm
Address
Abbey Walk
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
LEEDS ART GALLERY
Opening Hours
Mon: Closed
Tues -Sat: 10am – 5pm
Sun: 11am – 3pm
Address
The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AA
LEEDS CITY MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: closed (11am – 5pm on bank holidays)
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat & Sun: 11am – 5pm
Address
Leeds City Museum
Millennium Square
Leeds
LS2 8BH
Ticket Provider
LEEDS DISCOVERY CENTRE
Opening Hours
Visits by appointment/special event only.
Free public store tours are now available by booking in advance. Please call or email us.
Address
Leeds Discovery Centre
Off Carlisle Road
Leeds
LS10 1LB
LEEDS INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: Closed (10am – 5pm on bank holiday Mondays)
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat – Sun: 12 – 5pm
Last admission one hour before closing.
Address
Canal Road
Leeds
LS12 2QF
KIRKSTALL ABBEY
Opening Hours
Mon: closed (10am – 4pm on bank holidays)
Tues – Sun: 10am – 4.30pm
Last admission: 4pm
Address
Abbey Road
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
LOTHERTON
Opening Hours
Open Daily
Estate opens: 7.30am
Café: 9am – 5pm, hot food finishes 45 mins before
Hall: Open (Downstairs only) 10am-5pm
Wildlife World: 10am – 5pm
Estate closes: 7pm
Last entry 45 mins before estate closing time
TEMPLE NEWSAM
Opening Hours
House: Tues – Sun: 10.30am – 5pm
Home Farm: Tues – Sun: 10am – 5pm | Open Bank Holiday Mondays and throughout summer holidays
Last entry 45 minutes before
THWAITE WATERMILL
Address
Thwaite Lane
Stourton
Leeds
LS10 1RP
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Artist Karanjit Panesar has been commissioned to create a new artwork for an exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery News, NewsImage credit: Ollie Jenkins
Panesar’s proposal was selected from over 80 submissions from artists based across the North of England. He has since been invited to engage with digitised and physical collections at both the British Library and Leeds Museums and Galleries, as a catalyst to produce new work that creates a dialogue between the collections. This is the second time the two organisations have collaborated in this way. Panesar’s artwork is based on his research into the Leeds Sculpture Collections at Leeds Art Gallery and the Henry Moore Institute, and the oral history collections at the British Library and Bradford Industrial Museum. The Bradford Industrial Museum oral histories were made available thanks to Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, an audio preservation project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and led by the British Library.
Karanjit Panesar said: “I am passionate about working with collections and archives. I believe in the revolutionary potential of reimagining and critiquing the structures of knowledge that are built in museums and libraries; questioning what we choose to remember, and who chooses.”
Panesar’s practice is ambitious, broad and layered. His starting point is filmmaking and from these films he often builds installations, with sculpture, drawing and writing spilling into and out of the moving image space. Panesar is interested in connecting personal experience and individual agency to vast structures like global capitalism, media saturation and post-colonialism.
For this new co-commission, Panesar is exploring experiences of Punjabi immigrants that found themselves working in British foundries in the 1950s and 1960s. He said: “They were a cheap, itinerant labour force that made everything from scaffolding to cast iron car parts. Drawing on research into the collections, my work for the commission interrogates a longer lineage of metal-working in Britain, and the interior changes born of migration.”
Speaking in response to being awarded this commission, Panesar said:
“I’m grateful to Leeds Art Gallery and the British Library for the Collections in Dialogue commission. It’s a privilege to have an opportunity to make new work in a very dark time.
The work is a look into one corner of the vastness of empire. Today we are watching in real-time the mechanisms of violence and narrative that all empires rely on.”
Karanjit Panesar’s work will be on display at Leeds Art Gallery from 4 October 2024 until March 2025.
About Karanjit Panesar
Karanjit (born 1992) is an artist and filmmaker living and working in Leeds. Recent solo presentations include: Clarence Pier (2022), Aspex Portsmouth; Parts of Wholes (2022), Workplace Foundation, Newcastle; Actor, Container (2021), Two Queens, Leicester; Strange Loop (2019), Turf Projects, Croydon; THE WAY THINGS ARE (2018), arebyte Gallery, London.
About Collections in Dialogue
Launched in 2021 Collections in Dialogue is an artist co-commission project between Leeds Art Gallery and the British Library. It is centred around the commissioning of an artist based in the North of England to work with collections at both institutions as a catalyst to produce new work that creates a dialogue between them. The inaugural commission was awarded to Jill McKnight in 2021. Her work was exhibited at Leeds Art Gallery from March – October 2022.
Any enquiries about Collections in Dialogue or about Karanjit Panesar’s co-commission can be sent to Holly Grange, Exhibitions Curator at: [email protected].