50th Anniversary Conference

Accessibility

The Denny Room is located on the bottom floor of the museum, which can be accessed from the cafe or via lift or stairs from the main floor.

The Museum itself has ramp access to the left of the main doors, which are can be opened by an accessibility button if they are not already open.

Once inside the main entrance you will be greated by a visitor assistant who ccan explain which galleries are on which floors and give any further directions or help needed.

Accessible toilets are located on each floor.

Assistance dogs & guide dogs are welcome.

Masks are encouraged. Please test yourself for COVID and do not attend if you are showing any symptoms.

For any further access information, please contact Leeds City Museum

2:15pm -  4:15pm, Broderick Room, Leeds City Museum

Kit George Art & Newtonian Arts will be hosting a Rainbow Plaques workshops where you can create a temporary plaque for your own trans and queer history.

No tickets required, just turn up!

Accessibility

The Broderick Room is located on the main floor of the museum, which can be accessed via lift or stairs from the entrance. The room itself this a large circular room with double doors.

The Museum itself has ramp access to the left of the main doors, which are can be opened by an accessibility button if they are not already open.

Once inside the main entrance you will be greated by a visitor assistant who ccan explain which galleries are on which floors and give any further directions or help needed.

Accessible toilets are located on each floor.

Assistance dogs & guide dogs are welcome.

Masks are encouraged. Please test yourself for COVID and do not attend if you are showing any symptoms.

For any further access information, please contact Leeds City Museum

TBA

11am - 5pm, The Collector's Cabinet, Leeds City Museum, Millenium Square,  Leeds, LS2 8BH

The Collector’s Cabinet will host a display case curated by GossipGrrrl looking at Yorkshire’s transgender history.

Featuring Bronze Age Hull, Roman Age Catterick & York, Edwardian Era Bradford, Wartime Wakefield and 70s Leeds - we can see trans people have been a part of Yorkshire longer than there has been a Yorkshire to be a part of!

Tuesday 12th March - Sunday 28th April

Leeds City Museum entrance, Leeds City Museum, Millenium Square,  Leeds, LS2 8BH

Leap of Faith is an exhibition of work by artists Newton Danger and Kit George Art depicting transness in relation to faith both past and present. Judaism and Christianity contain many examples of being trans and/or intersex, with the Talmud containing at least 8 genders and Christianity venerating multiple saints that we would now think of as transgender.

10am - 5pm, The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Parkinson Building, 

Contested Bodies will be open as usual:

Delve into the work of over 40 contemporary artists from across the gender spectrum.

Explore gender stereotypes, self-representation and shapeshifting through fashion in artworks made in the last ten years in a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography and video.   

Challenge your ideas around race, class, objectification, pleasure or desire. Discover strategies of resilience, empowerment, kinship and community building.   

Contested Bodies understands that gender is socially constructed and performed. It is not an innate aspect of someone’s identity. The exhibition attempts to create a space where each artist has the freedom and power to perform gender in a way that feels right to them. The show also aims to drop gender, sexual and racial hierarchies altogether in order to recognise every person’s humanity.    

All the artworks in the exhibition are from the Marcelle Joseph and GIRLPOWER Collections and the show is co-curated by independent curator and collector Marcelle Joseph and Dr Laura Claveria, Exhibitions Curator at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery. Artists include Jonathan Baldock, Jesse Darling, Martine Gutierrez, Sin Wai Kin, Jala Wahid, Alberta Whittle, Gray Wielebinski and Zadie Xa.   

The University of Leeds has also commissioned a new large-scale textile artwork for Parkinson Court from Leeds-based artist and alumnus Tiegan Handley.  

The exhibition is accompanied by a supporting programme of events and a printed catalogue (digital version available here). 

List of participating artists: Larry Achiampong, Rebecca Ackroyd, Nel Aerts, Saelia Aparicio, Jonathan Baldock, Boris Camaca, Eileen Cooper, Leo Costelloe, Coco Crampton, Jesse Darling, Maryam Eisler, Kira Freije, Penny Goring, Martine Gutierrez, Neil Haas, Lisa-Marie Harris, Sam Keelan, Paul Kindersley, Jakob Lena Knebl, Sandra Lane, Jessie Makinson, Richard Malone, Alexi Marshall, Lindsey Mendick, Ad Minoliti, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Rose Nestler, Sola Olulode, Rithika Pandey, Anna Perach, Amber Pinkerton, Paloma Proudfoot, Zayn Qahtani, Agnes Questionmark, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Devlin Shea, Sin Wai Kin, Tenant of Culture, Jala Wahid, Alberta Whittle, Gray Wielebinski, Caroline Wong and Zadie Xa. 

Coinciding with Contested Bodies, Galleries’ student intern Abs Taylor has selected and reinterpreted a number of artworks from the University of Leeds Art Collection through a Queer and feminist lens. The project aims to provoke conversation and encourage different perspectives within historic and contemporary art. Look out for the lavender labels throughout the permanent collection display in the adjoining galleries.