During our time at university we got taken on a tour of all the creative spaces that Leeds had to offer. We started off the tour by going into the Parkinson’s building on uni of Leeds campus where there were two art galleries. Normally these aren’t the type of galleries I am drawn to however I was nice to look at art I wouldn’t normally look at. The galleries were called The Stanley and Audrey Burton gallery. The other was called the library gallery. There was one piece of work I was drawn to which was images taken of a baby’s hand in different compositions by Mary Kelly. It was part of a project that she did on post-partum relationships.

The second place we went was village book shop. I was very inspired by village as I saw it as a good starting pace if I were to ever want to produce and print a book as they made it clear that they stock books even if you’re a up and coming artist. Also, they have a small exhibition space upstairs which anyone can book out to have work shown and often have open evenings there.

Next we went to surf, it was an ex Leeds art student’s studio where he explained that he and many other creatives work in this rented space. They then turn half of it into an exhibition space for them or others to show their work. Standing in such a creative space really gave me a push to make me more creative as this is a space that I could see myself working in in the future.

The last place we visited was colours may vary which was linked with a café so had much attraction and had a very nice exhibition space to show work however it was more to sell work so therefore being an inexperienced student this is something id look to do after uni.

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