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Blenheim Walk Gallery

A photograph of two people wearing headphones and watching a television screen. The title on the screen is "And what do you actually inherit when you inherit land?".
A photograph of two people wearing headphones and watching a television screen. The title on the screen is "And what do you actually inherit when you inherit land?".

Marwa Arsanios: Who is Afraid of Ideology?, installation view at Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, 2022. Photo: Luke Holroyd

A photograph of a gallery wall with four pictures lined up. On the left hand side is a glass cabinet featuring a model of rose.
A photograph of a gallery wall with four pictures lined up. On the left hand side is a glass cabinet featuring a model of rose.

G & H. Kyriaki Goni, Data Garden, 2023, installation view, Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, photo: Jules Lister Photography

A photograph of two people speaking to an audience in a gallery.
A photograph of two people speaking to an audience in a gallery.

The School of Mutants, All Fragments of the Word Will Come Back Here to Mend Each Other, 2022, installation view at Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, 2024. Photo: Jules Lister Photography

Ilana Halperin | Minerals of New York

Ilana Halperin | Minerals of New York

Yoko Ono, Add Color Painting (Refugee Boat) (1960/2016-2019), installation view, Yoko Ono at Leeds, Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, England, 2019. Photo: Hamish Irvine © 2019 Yoko Ono.

Yoko Ono, Add Color Painting (Refugee Boat) (1960/2016-2019), installation view, Yoko Ono at Leeds, Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, England, 2019. Photo: Hamish Irvine © 2019 Yoko Ono.

A photograph of people viewing photographs and screens at a gallery.
A photograph of people viewing photographs and screens at a gallery.

Mieke Bal, Don Quichotte: Sad Countenances, 2020, installation view at Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University. Photo: Memory Potifa

A photograph of a person viewing an image being projected onto a large screen. The image is a close-up of overlapping white formations.
A photograph of a person viewing an image being projected onto a large screen. The image is a close-up of overlapping white formations.

Maya Watanabe, Stasis, 2018, We Live Like Trees Inside the Footsteps of Our Ancestors, installation view at Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, 2023. Photo: Jules Lister Photography

Rosemary Chalmers | Creature Design ex femina

Rosemary Chalmers | Creature Design ex femina

A photograph of a person with their back facing to the camera. They are viewing  multiple photos mounted on the wall of  differing small objects.
A photograph of a person with their back facing to the camera. They are viewing  multiple photos mounted on the wall of  differing small objects.

Dawn Woolley, Consumed: Stilled Lives, installation view at Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, 2019. Photo: Hamish Irvine

A photograph taken of a screen with an abstract image of colours mixed together. Part of the image features a wall on the left-hand side.
A photograph taken of a screen with an abstract image of colours mixed together. Part of the image features a wall on the left-hand side.

Samra Mayanja, installation view at Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, 2019. Photo: Hamish Irvine

Leeds Arts University has a large and exciting exhibitions programme held at Blenheim Walk Gallery.

Our curatorial programme is an educational, cultural, and research component of Leeds Arts University. As University Gallery, the Blenheim Walk contributes significantly to the institution’s research and educational curriculum, with a dynamic public programme of exhibitions, publications, talks, commissions, performances, symposia, across our two campuses and satellite display spaces.

In response to a global moment of environmental and sociopolitical crisis, our curatorial programme invites local and international artists, curators, researchers, and academics to present their research-practice on the most pressing challenges of contemporaneity. Our programme provides opportunities for cultural engagement with practices examining the past, shaping the present and imagining the future of the relationship between human societies and the natural environment.

Our gallery endeavour to engage a diverse audience from the university community to local and international visitors through its curatorial programmes, collections, research and educational projects, prioritising community engagement, practice-based research excellence, aesthetic and knowledge production.

Previous exhibitions include presentations by artists Marwa Arsanios, Kyriaki Goni, The School of Mutants, Ilana Halperin, Yoko Ono and Mieke Bal as well as research projects on decolonial ecologies by Marianna Tsionki and Mariana Cunha, creature design by Rosemary Chalmers, consumer culture research by Dawn Woolley, and an experimental graduate project by performance artist and writer Samra Mayanja.

Previous exhibitions and events

Exhibitions and Events

Blenheim Walk Gallery Advisory Board

Dr Gulsen Bal

Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in MA/MFA Contemporary Curating, Manchester School of Art

Dr Bill Balaskas

Artist, London and Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country, Kamberri (Canberra)

Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange, School of Arts, Kingston University, London

Visiting Fellow of the Australian National University

Dr Desmond Brett

Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Fine Art & Senior Lecturer MA Fine Art, Norwich University of the Arts

Dr Laura Claveria

Exhibitions Curator, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds

Prof Angela Dimitrakaki

Writer

Professor of Contemporary Art History & Theory, University of Edinburgh

Dr Raphael Fonseca

Curator of modern and contemporary Latin American, Denver Art Museum

Tessa Maria Guazon

Curator, Jorge Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, University of the Philippines Diliman

Associate Professor, Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman

2023 Researcher-in-residence, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (MMCA Changdong)

Dr Sol Izquierdo de la Viña

Postdoctoral Fellow, Technische Universität Berlin/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Rosie Vohra

Artist, Leeds

Previous Exhibition Programmes

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