Theatre | Architects of the Invisible
4/5 stars stage@leeds April 24-27 Like every other play produced by the PCI this year, ‘Architects of the Invisible’ lacked a clear story. However, if you dissect all of the small extracts from the play and put them together, it could qualify as having a plot. Yet any attempts of doing this would defeat [...]
The Duffy Archive Brings Bowie to Leeds
Melissa Baksh spoke with renowned photographer Chris Duffy ahead of his highly anticipated exhibition ‘The Duffy Collection’. His astounding prints will give viewers a peek into the life of David Bowie, through a selection of never-before-seen photographs. As the son of legendary Brian Duffy, an innovator of documentary fashion photography during the 1960’s, Chris nonchalantly [...]
Art | Robert Filliou, The Institute of Endless Possibilities
4/5 Stars Leeds’ Henry Moore Institute plays host, this spring, to a vibrant retrospective of Robert Filliou, in an exhibition that shatters artistic boundaries and defies definition. Robert Filliou, born in France in the 1920s grew to fame as a multimedia artist; his films and sculptures key to the Fluxus ‘anti- art’ movement of the [...]
Leeds Must-See: Harewood House
Anna Beketova explores one of Leeds’ top attractions and unearths some of its artistic delights, including the current ‘In Cloud Country: Abstracting from Nature’ exhibition Next weekend if you find yourself craving some more aesthetic stimulus than the graffiti strewn streets of Hyde Park, jump on the number 36 bus – 20 minutes and £3.50 later you could [...]
Dance | The Dark Angel
3/5 stars April 11 Joss Arnott Dance Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre, Northern Ballet The Dark Angel Tour, created and choreographed by Joss Arnott, promises a triple bill of dance exploring the human body in all its strength and beauty. The first piece, entitled Origin, starts off small as Arnott took to the stage [...]
Theatre | Our Class
4/5 stars stage@leeds Leeds Theatre Group Society April 20 Director Jocelyn Cheek has taken a risk with her first production, choosing not only a foreign play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, but also one about the Holocaust. Following the lives of ten classmates in a torn apart Poland, we see how friendships change when war and [...]
A Day in the Life of a Curator
Leeds Student’s Zosia Gamgee catches up with Pavel Pyś, Exhibitions and Display Curator at the Henry Moore Institute, to discuss his work as a young curator in one of the UK’s most competitive artistic fields LS: Thank you very much for talking with us, Pavel. Your work is hugely inspirational to many students. Is there any advice that you would give to [...]
A Closer Look At… Abstract Expressionism
Moving firmly away from the past, works of art that culminate to create the movement we call Abstract Expression focus primarily on the notions of the ‘new’ and the active role of the artist. With paintings on a canvas no longer consumed by a series of pictorial representations or narrative tales, audiences in the early [...]
‘Learning To Be Funny’ – Students and Comedy
With the Tealights just having dropped the curtain on their second show, and student-led comedy nights cropping up across campus and beyond, Charlotte Duffield questions the significance of university in helping young, budding comedians propel themselves into centre stage, speaking with Edy Hurst from the university’s Comedy Society In the dingy underbelly of LUU a [...]