Leeds Degree Shows Adventure documents my journey around Leeds Fine Art degree shows at University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University in 2006 and 2007. The photographs explore my own interaction with other graduate’s work. Playfully negotiating ideas around Authorship, an Artists’ Ego, Art Education and Artwork-as-backdrop it relates to my own position as a recent Artist Graduate.
The project uses audience and artist interactions with the work as the central focus. The photographs are documents of interactions already taken place.
Credits: Emma Cooper (photography, 2006), Joe Mawson (photography, 2007) & Leeds Metropolitan University and University of Leeds Fine Art graduates 2006-2007
Spy Bat T-shirts
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Hand-drawn: no screen printing here, all drawn with fabric pen and paint. It will be an edition of 10.
Cathedral School
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10th October 2007
I ran workshops with Nicolar Bell at Wakefield College for Partake’s Cathedral School launch night. In our workshops we helped children to make felt finger puppets, plush toys and cardboard robots.
Archive: Leeds
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Archive: Leeds is a collaboration with Sarah Dee Barrett
As artists interested in working in the public realm, we felt the need for a comprehensive resource looking at the possibilities of spaces, public and private, for creative events and exhibitions. Archive: Leeds is a resource of information regarding art activity in Leeds, focusing on the usage of venues and spaces. The aim of the project was to make useful information freely available to encourage creative activity in the city.
There are no restrictions on what is seen as a “venue,” all spaces are considered from art galleries to underpasses. Over time the archive will be gradually expanded to include information on useful local resources, contacts and art groups in the area.
Archive: Leeds is now permanently housed in theartmarket, Leeds and can be accessed during its opening times.
22nd September 2007
The Really Super Market…..An event organised by Bob & Roberta Smith located outside MIMA, Middlesborough.
We brought a bit of theartmarket with us and occupied a stall for the day.
4-5th August 2007
I was invited to run a series of plush toy making workshops by Folksy at the Innocent Village Fete, Regents Park, London. The workshop was for people of all ages and we used discarded clothing and unwanted fabrics to make the toys with.
Moor Music Festival
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20th July 2007
I ran a workshop to help kids make soft toys in the kids tent at the Moor Music festival.
Workshop plush
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Love SlugRat and Handy made at the Re-Toyed Trash plush workshops in May.
19th-22nd May 2007
I held two plush character workshops as part of Re-Toyed Trash in an abandoned unit in the Merrion Market, Leeds. The workshops were in association with theartmarket’s ‘Corner in the Market’ programme for Situation Leeds festival. One of the workshops was with Nicolar Bell who had created templates of her plush foxes for other people to make their own. All work made in these workshops then went on to be displayed in a exhibition of Re-Toyed Trash work.
April 2007
I ran a toy making workshop during Ladyfest Leeds festival as part of Re-Toyed Trash. To make the trash toys we were sticking together a number of discarded items such as broken toys, broken electrical equipment and abandoned shop stock.
