Students exhibit at Sunny Bank Mills

Students from across the University have been selected to show their work at Ones to Watch, an annual exhibition of emerging talent at Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds.

The Ones to Watch exhibition is an opportunity for emerging artists to exhibit in a professional, established independent gallery with extensive social media and website coverage and thousands of visitors annually. Now in its thirteenth year the exhibition brings together work by artists from across disciplines, from painting to sculpture, film, photography, ceramics, and design.

MA Creative Practice student, Jude Kershaw, MA Photography student, Louie Haslam-Chance and BA (Hons) Illustration students Martha Hinde, Pooja Mistry, Stanley Goretzki, Felix Booth, and Aleksandra Druc have all been selected to exhibit for Ones to Watch 2026. They were chosen by a panel of judges including visual artist Aliyah Hussain, Cat Scott MRSS, an established international contemporary artist and Hayley Dixon, Director of Yorkshire Contemporary, and the Sunny Bank Mills Arts Team.

The exhibition will launch with an event on Saturday 10 January and will run until 29 March at Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley.