David Sowerby
A Makeshift Flesh
Thursday 27 February - Friday 8 May 2020

Sowerby’s work strives to connect and project his contextual experience through the matter and forms he uses in his productions. For some time now Sowerby’s routines and employment have supplied his practice with a daily sampling of discarded 'waste' material that is his data set, he treasures and re-purpose this stuff, regarding it with the imagined and physical traces of my locality, exertions and interactions.

KP Culver
Underground Network
14 October 2021

As part of the residency Underground Network has been formed in response to the college as part of Light Night, focusing on systems of knowledge and how we access information through nature, technology and voice. Researching into the mycorrhizal network which is an underground hyphae created by fungi, connecting individual plants together by passing information.

Charlotte Cullen
I give
4 March - 29 April 2022

I give succumbs to the collapsing of boundaries that BLANK_’s significant window space evokes as sculptures subside into 2-dimensional surface only to emerge as structural form woven into the fabric of the building. Surface is interrogated as a barrier and as a marker, etching and gestural mark making create a visual language which evidence lives lived outside of dominant structures of control, informed by etchings on school desks, carved graffiti and witch marks; an inherited act of marking one’s place in history.

Julia McKinlay
Undergrowth
Thursday 9 September - Friday 1 October 2021

McKinlay’s practice combines sculpture and print processes to move between two and three-dimensional space. She makes installations and works in series that represent semi-fictional environments for the viewer to experience. Previous works have explored the edge of the world, an aquarium and the back of a snail’s shell. Her work is informed by research visits to museum archives, landscapes, and workshops. Using processes in the studio that mimic events in nature through the involvement of chemical reactions, heat and pressure, McKinlay’s work considers the overlap between the natural and the industrial. 

Peter Lavery
Summer of 68
Saturday 9 October - Friday 22 October 2021

Photographer Peter Lavery is collaborating with St George’s Crypt to help them celebrate their 90th Anniversary which falls on 14th October 2021. BLANK_ will host an exhibition of photographs; St George’s Crypt have been working with homeless and vulnerable adults in Leeds since the 1930’s; supporting them with food, clothing and accommodation. In recent times their remit has grown exponentially. Their overall mission is to support homeless and vulnerable people in Leeds from chaos to citizenship, away from a life on the streets.

Rosie Leventon
Ripple of Light
Friday 5 November 2021 - Friday 14 January 2022

Rosie Leventon makes sculptural installations, and environmental art in the landscape. She experiments with new materials, such as Celotex Insulation, central heating pipes, recycled mobile phones and paperbacks, as well as more durable stone, water earth and wood and uses them in innovative ways. Continuing themes in her work are the promotion of meditation on vulnerability and the illusion of solidity and permanence in life; many of the works explore things which have been lost, hidden or forgotten.

Leeds Youth Muslim Forum
Breaking Down Barriers; Catalysing Conversations
Thursday 13 October 2022 - Friday 25 November 2022

In a post Covid era, the need to foster new friendships, and interfaith relationships between Leeds’ diversity of communities seems ever more important. This series of community walks explored shared green spaces and sites of historical and religious significance in four different locations around the city. Each walk was curated with themed conversations, interspersed with stopping points for reflection, and concluded with a shared meal. Each walk was planned, stewarded and photographed by the young people from Breaking Down Barriers, and led by Imam Adam Aslam.