Guild has commissioned two new collaborative partners to run campaigns across the next two years to progress this work with specific areas of focus. These collaborative partners will lead on structuring, researching and delivering campaigns around:
(1) Artists working unpaid in studio spaces.
(2) Higher Education provisions for Art Students and Graduates.
These campaigns sit alongside a collaborative research project undertaken by PHD candidate Benedetta D’Ettorre. She is supported through a scholarship as part of a collaborative doctoral partnership of East Street Arts and the University of Leeds School of Performance and Cultural Industries. Through shared supervision between the university and East Street Arts Artistic Director Karen Watson, our candidate Benedetta D’Ettorre will research the themes and aims of the Guild Programme.
Progress of campaigns and PhD research will be updated here throughout; East Street Arts will provide updates around crucial findings, recommendations, and opportunities to get involved through contributing to research, attending discussions or events. East Street Arts and Guild see hands-on and practical campaigning and research as integral to the survival of the artist-led sector in the UK and are excited to develop this artist-led campaign model to ensure that the new bodies of research created can underpin practical change-making in the sector.
Other things!
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Artists
I'm Gonna Find You White Rabbit! by Silvia Liebig
Silvia Liebig's artist book I'm Gonna Find You White Rabbit!: Being Beeston Projekt 2019-2023 is now available to buy.
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Event
Reproductive Futures: Creative Workshop
Join artist Herfa Thompson and academic Zoe Tongue to explore your reproductive health experiences, responding to the duo's Reproductive Futures exhibition, in this visual art workshop.
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News
Welcome to our new trustees
We’re thrilled to welcome two new trustees to our Board following a recent round of open recruitment.
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News
Artist selected for Taipei artist residency
Leeds-based artist James Thompson has been selected for a sought-after six-week residency at Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taiwan, from August to September 2024.
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Commission
Making Public Art - a new interview series
We worked with some wonderful artists throughout 2023 to bring large-scale mural pieces to various locations across Leeds. We’ve been catching up with the artists, in a new series that looks at working with communities, sustainability, and their working process in creating public art.
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Artist support
No Going Back: exploring the archives
Here are some of our favourite images from last month's No Going Back exhibition, for anyone who may have missed it.