Celf Ar Waliau at The Mill Gallery - a-n The Artists Information Company

Venue: The Mill Gallery
Starts: Friday, November 29, 2024
Ends: Friday, December 13, 2024
Address: Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS13 4EP
Location: Yorkshire
Organiser: Aire Place Studios

Join us for our inaugural exhibition, Celf Ar Waliau. This special event will feature the incredible talents of contemporary artists from Leeds, showcasing a diverse array of artwork, including textured sculptures, mixed media, painting, and photography. Each piece tells a story, blending humor, sadness, and everything in between.

We promise it will be a captivating experience that invites you to explore art in new and unexpected ways. You’ll discover how artists transform everyday moments into extraordinary narratives, and we hope you’ll feel inspired to reflect on your own journey through their work.

Let’s Celebrate Together! We can’t wait to open our doors and welcome you into this beautiful space. Join us in celebrating a new era of artistic expression in Leeds! Don’t forget to follow us on social media for sneak peeks and updates as we get closer to the opening.

Participating artists:

Alice Kin, Amelia Frances Wood, Andrew Pickles, Andy Cahill, Beth Waite, Caitlin Burns, Fernanda Cortes, Grzegorz Linkiewicz, Heidi Walker, Jun Rui Lo, Louise Ventris, Lucy Fiona Morrison, Nicola Ramsey, Phee Jefferies, Sarah Francis, Tanya Bentham and Trish O’Shea

The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, LS13 4EP

Sarah Francis

Artist Curator Sarah Francis is a Leeds based Artist Curator who focuses on bringing under-recognised artists and narratives to the public, using empathy and warmth to build self-confidence in creatives left behind by the mainstream system. Fascinated by complex possibilities lying dormant in ‘familiar’ environments, setting a challenging dialogue between cultural identity and the inner worlds which we as artists manifest within our work. This conceptual framework draws parallels between artists from differing socio-cultural worlds, whose work follows similar lines in metaphysical realms. Francis' interpretation of the curator is that of a caretaker of other worlds, working in collaboration as the tour guide and storyteller, bringing these converging manifestations to our physical spaces. Francis’ artwork centres around her neurodiverse and queer identity, building her own language and worlds to explore and understand ‘how I made me’; a reference to an early body of work that investigated her inner trauma and re-articulation of her current self. Her work has been shortlisted for the Saatchi Gallery’s Art of Giving Prize, selected by Richard Billingham for Curator’s Choice Noise Young Talent 2009, and recognised in Aesthetica’s 100 Best Contemporary Artists in Europe. In addition to her work, Sarah Francis is the Founder and Director of Aire Place Studios, Leeds. @sarahfrancis.art & @aireplacestudios

Aire Place Studios CIC

Aire Place Studios is a creative studio which holds spaces of equality and solidarity. We host comfortable studios spaces, hold safer spaces for workshops and a bold gallery space centred around innovation and inclusivity. Aire Place Studios also features a collective of associated artists who exist to radically uplift under-represented creatives with empathy and warmth to realise the potential of those often overlooked by traditional art institutions. This dynamic collaboration builds trust and collective accountability to serve our communities.