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Events at Leeds Art Gallery

Agenda

Night Time Drawing Workshop with Sarah-Jane Mason

Tue 17 Feb 11:00 - 15:00

Join artist Sarah-Jane Mason to make invisible line drawings with wax, apply night time colours to reveal your drawings.

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School Holiday

Family

Workshop
Tue 17 Feb

11:00 - 15:00

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Plant Dreamworlds in Central Court

Wed 18 Feb 11:00 - Sat 21 Feb 15:00

Collaborate on a huge botanical backdrop in Central Court to create your own plant worlds and ecosystems.

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Family

Drop-in
Wed 18 Feb

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Sat 21 Feb

From 11:00

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Early Years Atelier

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Thu 26 Feb - Fri 27 Feb

Inspiring creative session in the gallery for under 5s and their carers.

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Family

Workshop
Thu 26 Feb

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Fri 27 Feb

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Blooming Zine Workshop

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Thu 26 Feb 10:30 - 13:00

A creative zine workshop, taking inspiration from Plant Dreaming exhibition, hosted by artist Kristyna Baczynski.

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Adult Talks, Tours and Workshops
Thu 26 Feb

10:30 - 13:00

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Meet & Make

Every Friday in term time, 1pm - 3pm

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Fri 27 Feb - Fri 3 Jul

Explore the exhibitions and displays through the art of making, meet new people and learn something new. Drop-in, every Friday in term-time.

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Adult Talks, Tours and Workshops

Community

Drop-in

Workshop

Free
Fri 27 Feb

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Fri 3 Jul

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Stitch Art

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Wed 4 Mar

Take a closer look at artworks in our collections and exhibitions to help inspire your own textile art. Join us on the first Wednesday of every month.

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Workshop

Free
Wed 4 Mar

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Art Social CPD for teachers and other art educators

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Wed 4 Mar and Wed 1 Apr

Leeds Art Gallery and the Henry Moore Institute offer free, informal sessions for teachers and educators of all kinds that focus on ‘teachers’ as creative individuals.

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Wed 4 Mar

and

Wed 1 Apr

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Plant Dreaming: A Leeds Art Gallery Late

Thu 19 Mar 18:00 - 21:00

On the eve of the Spring Equinox, join us for a special late night opening to celebrate Plant Dreaming

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Thu 19 Mar

18:00 - 21:00

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Folklore & Flimsies

The plants we grow and the stories they tell

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Thu 26 Mar 10:30 - 13:00

Make your own mini herbarium sheet with artist Joanna Jowett responding to the artworks in the exhibition Plant Dreaming.

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Workshop
Thu 26 Mar

10:30 - 13:00

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The Picture Library Selection Weekend

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Thu 9 Apr - Sun 12 Apr

Join us on the selection weekend to choose from hundreds of new original artworks to take away and hang up at home.

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Drop-in
Thu 9 Apr

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Sun 12 Apr

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Thinking With Plants: Ecofeminism and Contemporary Art

Thu 16 Apr 13:00 - 14:00

Join Dr Marianna Tsionki for a lunchtime talk exploring feminist thought, art and ecology.

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Adult Talks, Tours and Workshops
Thu 16 Apr

13:00 - 14:00

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Explore exhibitions

All exhibitions and displays

Lines of Enquiry: Drawings from the collection

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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