Salon is a group exhibition of painting, sculpture, print and textiles from artists based at Patrick Studios, Convention House and Barkston House, run
Salon is a group exhibition bringing together artists based at Patrick Studios, Convention House and Barkston House, on display in the Project Space at Patrick Studios. Expect a mix of painting, sculpture, print and textiles from artists across Leeds.
Salon opens on Thursday 10 September with an opening night from 6pm, and remains on display until 24 September, including across Open Studios weekend on 12 and 13 September.
Entry is free. Meet the artists below.
Events like this are made possible thanks to the support of funders Leeds City Council, the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) and Arts Council England.
This exhibition is part of Open Studios.
Meet the artists
Alex De Little
(Sound)
Alex De Little is an artist and researcher based in Leeds and London. His practice involves installation, performance, workshops, Deep Listening and writing, often developing through site based work and collaboration.
Andi Walker
(Textiles)
Andi Walker is a Leeds based artist whose practice spans sculpture, textiles, costume and performance, creating sculptural quilts, stitched installations and collaborative projects that explore memory, identity and the stories held in materials.
Andrew Breslin (Breslin/Standeven)
(Painting)
Breslin and Standeven are the remaining members of a group of artists who worked on collaborative art projects in the 1990s. Their current work fuses contemporary subject matter with myth, belief, memory and metaphor.
Ben Winter
(Painting)
Ben Winter’s practice plays with themes of mythology, influence, connectivity and consciousness through painting, drawing, video and sound, exploring relationships between people, surroundings and cultural settings.
CA Ryan
(Mixed media, drawing, print, collage, walking)
The identity of CA Ryan began in January 2020 as a new phase of practice, registering a growing sense of vulnerability in the face of the climate crisis. Recent work includes a series of 12 walks navigating the perimeters of private land and corporate profit.
Cam Rolland
(Filmmaker)
Cam Rolland is a cinematographer, editor and multimedia filmmaker from Leeds, working across short films, music videos, documentaries and short form content since graduating from Leeds Arts University in 2023.
Chris Eastham
(Painting)
Chris Eastham is a figurative painter working mainly in oil on canvas, drawing on archive imagery and personal narrative. Her recent body of work, “A Northern Soul,” explores personal and collective memory in the communities we grow up in.
Drew Caines
(Ceramics)
Drew Caines is a ceramic artist mixing ancient and contemporary influences, producing work from a mythic culture rooted in British folklore: handmade folk horror that’s contemporary, creepy cute and totally alive.
Frances Norton
(Painting)
Dr Frances Ann Norton is an art educator researcher, artist and chaplain. Her artwork considers what it means to have faith in a secular society, painting Christian icons and abstract, geometric process based drawings alongside textiles and sculptural ceramics.
Gabriella Ranito-Baltazar
(Painting)
Gabriella Ranito-Baltazar is a British Portuguese abstract artist whose work explores connection, memory and the cycles of life, working with acrylic, texture, sand and layered materials inspired by landscape and her Portuguese heritage.
Griet Beyaert
(Audio-visual sound work)
Griet Beyaert makes audio visual sound work using materials, generative coding, datasets and algorithmic composition, interested in the sensory, internal experience of the spaces we inhabit.
Irina Lomash
(Multidisciplinary: painting, printmaking, video, sound)
Irina Lomash is an interdisciplinary artist based in Leeds. As a contemporary figurative symbolist, she builds layered metaphors exploring the shadow aspects of the mind, collective experience, repressed dreams and memory.
James Thompson
(Sculpture, video, sound, performance)
James Thompson’s site responsive practice explores the perception and interpretation of architectural space through sculpture, moving image and performance. He is currently pursuing a practice based PhD at the University of Leeds.
Julia McKinlay
(Sculpture and print)
Julia McKinlay’s work is spatial, moving between two and three dimensions and translating forms across drawing, print and sculpture, creating spatial assemblages that represent imagined spaces and environments.
Kaajal Modi
(Socially engaged, soundscapes, installation, print, digital)
Kaajal Modi is a multidisciplinary artist educator mediating material engagements with food, land and water to explore the politics of how humans relate to the world through our bodies and imaginations. Part of Sijelo art collective and Leeds Critical Digital Practice Lab.
Leeds Print Workshop
Leeds Print Workshop is a co-operative, membership based printmaking studio at Patrick Studios in central Leeds, providing facilities and workshops across a wide range of traditional printmaking processes.
Luke Swinhoe
(Collage / found objects)
During his residency at Patrick Studios, Luke Swinhoe has become interested in capturing the elusive essence of the ideas, thoughts and habits that drive us to create. Focusing on speed of creation has led him to collage as a medium.
Mishka Lesayova
(Natural colour and sustainable photography)
Mishka Lesayova is an artist and materials researcher working with natural colour, foraging hyper local seasonal growth or growing traditional dye plants and flowers, exploring collaboration with ecosystems rather than extraction from them.
Rhian Cooke
(Installation, moving image and sculpture)
Rhian Cooke makes work across moving image, animation, sculpture, installation and engagement, drawing connections between our inner worlds, objects and local environments.
Sheila Gaffney
(Sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, research led practice)
Sheila Gaffney is a sculptor and Professor Emerita at Leeds Arts University. Her work explores the intersections of embodiment, memory and identity, developed over more than four decades.
Teresa Flavin
(Painting and mixed media)
Teresa Flavin is an artist, illustrator and children’s book author who creates richly coloured and textured mixed media paintings, juxtaposing finely rendered representational imagery with expressive abstraction.
Tessa Houghton
(Painting)
Tessa Houghton is a contemporary landscape painter based in Leeds, creating atmospheric, semi abstract oil paintings inspired by shifting light, coastlines and open landscapes.
Valerie Heskins
(Watercolour, digital collage and oil on canvas)
Valerie’s work explores place, rhythm and character through two distinct bodies of work: digital collage and oils exploring enthrallment and enchantment, and a watercolour series portraying the people of Leeds.
