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Artists
From artists to artist-led spaces and from past to present, explore the artists and collectives who have created work as part of the East Street Arts community.
Artist, Blackpool
Abingdon Studios
Abingdon Studios is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, London
Adam Peacock
Adam Peacock was one of our four Convention House residency artists in 2022, funded by Garfield Weston Foundation.
Artist, Patrick Studios, Leeds
Andi Walker
My work is an ongoing exploration of the evolving nature of human narratives, where stories are continually made, unmade, and remade.
Artist, Barkston House Studios, Leeds
Andrea Thoma
Andrea Thoma is one of our studio holders in Barkston House Studios in Leeds.
Artist, London
Armelle Skatulski
Armelle Skatulski was one of our four Convention House residency artists in 2022, funded by Garfield Weston Foundation.
Artist, Halifax
Artworks
Artworks is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Leeds
Assembly House
Assembly House is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Amsterdam
Axmed Maxamed
We worked with Axmed Maxamed on a residency as part of our We Need Queer Liberation project in 2021.
Artist, London
Babeworld
Babeworld is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Leeds
Beatrix Haxby
Beatrix Haxby was a Leeds Arts University graduate resident studio holder at Patrick Studios in 2022.
Artist, Margate
Bon Volks
Bon Volks is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Bristol
Bricks
Bricks is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, London
Broccoli Arts
Broccoli Arts is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Leeds
CA Ryan
CA Ryan was one of our three Convention House residency seed commission artists in 2022.
Artist, Bristol
Caraboo Projects
Caraboo Projects is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Leeds
Centre for Live Art Yorkshire (CLAY)
CLAY was an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Patrick Studios, Leeds
Chris Eastham
Chris Eastham is a figurative painter who works across a range of media including painting, printmaking and digital art.
Artist, Cornwall
DECODER
DECODER is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Exeter
Double Elephant Print Workshop
Double Elephant Print Workshop is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Patrick Studios, Leeds
Dr Frances-Ann Norton
Dr Frances-Ann Norton is an interdisciplinary creative, working across tempera painting, textiles, ceramics, poetry and folk fiddle.
Artist, Barkston House Studios, Leeds
Drew Caines
Drew Caines is a studio holder at Barkston House Studios in Leeds.
Artist, Norwich
Dyad Creative
Dyad Creative is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Newcastle
Edwin Li
Edwin Li brought a hint of his Bowie magic to our first Art Hostel on Kirkgate with an installation in one of the bathrooms.
Artist, Penryn
Fish Factory
Fish Factory is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Leeds
Flea Collective
Flea Collective joined us as one of our three Convention House Residency seed commissions in 2022.
Artist, Leeds
Found Fiction
We worked with Found Fiction in summer 2020 to deliver Street Stories across our local neighbourhood, Mabgate.
Artist, Patrick Studios, Leeds
Gabriella Ranito-Baltazar
Contemporary abstract pieces with compelling narratives.
Artist, Barkston House, Leeds
Gillian Holding
Gillian Holding attempts to express how we live in an absurd world through art
Artist, Leeds
Grief Series
Grief Series is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Patrick Studios, Leeds
Griet Beyaert
Audio-visual sound work using glass, generative coding, datasets and algorithmic composition.
Artist, Wirksworth
Haarlem Artspace
Haarlem Artspace is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Leeds
Hannah Stacey
Hannah Stacey was the mind behind The Riverside Mission Room at the first Art Hostel on Kirkgate.
Artist, Patrick Studios, Leeds
HATCH
We establish & host events for communities to create, make & debate, with a collective interest in how art can make a real difference to our lives.
Artist, North Yorkshire
Jade Montserrat
Jade Montserrat joined us for a virtual residency in summer 2020.
Artist, Leeds
Jake Krushell
Jake Krushell joined us as one of four Convention House residency artists in 2022 and also worked with us on our Season for Change project.
Artist, Southampton
K6 Gallery
K6 Gallery is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Union 105, Leeds
Khadijah Ibrahiim
Khadijah Ibrahiim is a theatre maker and published writer, who combines inter-disciplinary art forms to re-imagine poetry as performance theatre.
Artist, London
Kremena Dimitrova
Kremena was one of two artists researching and reporting on the history of Burmantofts and New Briggate for our Heritage Action Zone project.
Artist, Patrick Studios, Leeds
Leeds Print Workshop
Leeds Print Workshop is a cooperative, open access printmaking studio in central Leeds.
Artist, Leeds
Lorna Johnson
Lorna Johnson created the Curio•sea•ty room in our first Art Hostel in Kirkgate.
Artist, Patrick Studios,
Mafwa Theatre
Community theatre company bringing refugees, asylum seekers and settled communities together to celebrate our diversity together in Leeds.
Artist, Convention House, Leeds
Michaela Lesayova
Michaela Lesayova is one of our studio holders at Convention House. She has worked with us on various projects including the MLGB Neighbourhood Plan.
Artist, Middlesborough
Navigator North
Navigator North is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, London
Nicolas Henninger
Nicholas Henninger worked with us to create CABANON as part of our Season for Change programme in April 2021.
Artist, Bolton
Nwando Ebizie
We worked with Nwando Ebizie on a residency as part of our Season for Change project in 2021.
Artist, Birmingham
Ort Gallery
Ort Gallery is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Leeds
Precious Art Collective
Precious Art Collective created the Stranger in Pink room for our first Art Hostel in Kirkgate, and The Outside Inn for our current Art Hostel.
Artist, Greater Manchester
Proforma
Proforma is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, London
Rhianna Ilube
Rhianna Ilube worked with us in 2021 on our Radical Structures project.
Artist, Leeds
Rosie Todd
Rosie Todd was one of two artists who supported us with uncovering the history of Burmantofts and New Briggate for our Heritage Action Zone project.
Artist, Leeds
Sarah Francis
Sarah Francis joined us as one of our three Convention House Residency seed commissions in 2022.
Artist, Leeds
Sayang
Sayang designed Rooting at our current Art Hostel and also took part in a Taiwanese residency exchange visit to Taipei in February 2023.
Artist, London and Berlin
Season Butler
Season Butler worked with us in 2021 on our Radical Structures project.
Artist, Birmingham
Selina Thompson
We worked with Selina Thompson in 2020 on her performance installation Oh God, Not Another One! with members of our local community.
Artist, Manchester
Shy Bairns
Shy Bairns is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Dortmund
Silvia Liebig
We've welcomed Silvia Liebig to Leeds on residencies, since 2010, including at Artist House 45. She also designed a room for our first Art Hostel.
Artist, Glasgow
Soorin Shin
Soorin Shin was one of our four Convention House residency artists in 2022, funded by Garfield Weston Foundation.
Artist, Leeds
Tanith Mab
Tanith Mab joined us for a residency at Convention House between Aug 2021 and March 2022.
Artist, Patrick Studios, Leeds
Tessa Houghton
Tessa Houghton is one of our studio holders at Patrick Studios in Leeds.
Artist, Manchester
The Centre for International Women Artists (CIWA)
CIWA is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Manchester
The Penthouse
The Penthouse is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Reading
The Rising Sun Arts Centre
The Rising Sun Arts Centre is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Leicester
Two Queens
Two Queens is an artist-led space that we worked with as part of our Guild programme from 2018 to 2023.
Artist, Leeds
Vee Dagger
We worked with Vee Dagger on two residencies as part of our We Need Queer Liberation project in 2021.
Artist, Manchester
Vicky Clarke
Vicky Clarke was one of our four Convention House residency artists in 2022, funded by Garfield Weston Foundation.