Our Facilities
Leeds College of Art & Design offers state-of-the art equipment, and plenty of it: you’ll find it much easier to access what you need, when you need it, than at many other colleges. Our purpose-built learning resources, including 45 specialist rooms, account for over a third of the College’s total space. We provide workshops for every discipline we teach, areas in which to exhibit, and well-supported networks of PCs and Apple Macs (all with high-speed broadband). The College’s ongoing commitment to maintaining up-to-date, industry-standard technology means you’ll be able to produce the highest-quality work, meeting or even exceeding the demands of modern practice in art, craft and design.
ANNA- LENA HALLQVIST Originally from Sweden, she was training to be a nurse before she started studying two evenings a week at Leeds College of Art. In the meantime, Chris Shaw who owns Overview Photography and specialises in room set work, needed a permanent in-house stylist as they had previously only employed stylists on a freelance basis. He approached Pauline Keenoy, who is the course leader for the Interior Design and Decoration course, and asked if she had anyone whom she thought may fit the bill. Pauline recomended some students from the course who Chris then interviewed. As part of the interview process, Chris gave them a photograph of a basic kitchen and asked them to come up with recomendations for colours and styles for the kitchen.
TOM BING HAZEL
Tom Bing is a photographer, but with a difference. His interests lie in documenting what you wouldn’t normally see and bringing things to light. Such as refugees and asylum seekers currently living in Leeds. He was originally drawn towards Graphic Design, so he started his A Levels in product design, art and photography, but found the academic teaching style hard to engage with. Having almost given up on education, he decided to try the BTEC National Certificate in Graphic Design. His tutor, and the more hands-on teaching style helped him to develop his ideas and political views so when he came to see what the BA (Hons)Visual Communications course was about at Leeds College of Art, he knew it was the perfect choice for him.
Hazel took the Foundation Diploma at Leeds College of Art & Design before going on to study a BA and an MA in Manchester. In between all this studying she spent four months on an Erasmus exchange at the University of Lapland in Finland and volunteered at a number of Galleries in Manchester. These included the Manchester Art Gallery Exhibitions Team, Castlefield Art Gallery, a community knitting project at Tameside Museums and the Development Department at The Whitworth Art Gallery. Hazel exhibited in the Liverpool Biennial Independents in 2004, and is a founding member of The Doorstep Collective based in Manchester.
Industrial Sabotage IGNITO Level One students from the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Leeds College of Art & Design present Industrial Sabotage - a show of the site specific works produced during five weeks of residency at Armley Mills Industrial Museum. Reacting and responding to the context of the museum and its surrounding community, students have produced work ranging from sculpture, video and installation, to drawing, performance and painting in a show that will be at the museum from 20th May through until the end of August 2008. Armley Mills Industrial Museum, Canal Road Armley Leeds LS12 2QF 0113 263 7861
“My time at Leeds College of Art really gave me the ability to stand out from the scores of other young creatives trying to get into the industry.” After completing a National Diploma in Graphic Design at Leeds College of Art, Ross went on to a BA (Hons) Visual Communication at the College. After graduation he worked as a marketing designer and an art director within Leeds before taking his current position as an art director at the London based agency Ignito. “What I found most valuable was the way I was encouraged to question everything and not be complacent with the norm. Leeds College of Art allowed me to get into a certain way of thinking that has been invaluable to my career.”
New Designer of the Year Abigail Borg who is 22 and from Redditch near Birmingham is currently studying on BA (Hons) Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Design at Leeds College of Art & Design and has this year has been awarded The Business Design Centre (BDC) New Designer of the Year. Abigail, who gained a 1st class honours degree. She delighted the judging panel with her ‘Exquisite drawing skills and sensitivity to colour. The collection is an accomplished and consistent body of work which is both professional and has strong commercial potential.’ Janet Martin, Head of Monsoon Home; Suzanne Imre, Editor of Living etc; Rosie Greenlees, Executive Director of the Crafts Council and Damian Barr, Journalist and Writer had reviewed the work of nearly 2000 graduates from 200 UK design courses who launched their professional creative talents at the New Designers Event in Islington. The judges looked for work that was innovative, inspirational, engaging and forward thinking – reflecting the core values of the BDC. Still taking in the news of the award, Abigail Borg commented, ‘It gives me a fantastic opportunity to launch my designs into the commercial world, equipping me with both financial and business advice and support which is so crucial at the start of my career. All my hard work has been recognised by the industry; I am very excited.’
Leeds College of Art would like to congratulate their alumna, Katherine Fryer, on her 100th birthday. Katherine has had a long, distinguished career both as an artist she is an accomplished practitioner of drawing, painting and wood engraving - and as a highly regarded teacher.
Level One students from the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Leeds College of Art & Design present Industrial Sabotage - a show of the site specific works produced during five weeks of residency at Armley Mills Industrial Museum.
LCA: A CENTURY OF ART
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Katherine was born in Leeds on 26 August 1910. She could draw before she could walk, and soon displayed the determination and passion for the creative arts that were to propel her throughout her career. She studied at the College from 1926 - 1931 winning the Princess of Wales Scholarship which helped to fund her studies. She reminisces about the soot-clad buildings, and the grime and general darkness that enveloped the city during those years. As a young artist she used to wonder how the French Impressionists were able to create their brightly coloured canvases from urban scenes. The industrial era has, of course, long since been steam-cleaned away, the mines and mills have closed and Leeds has regenerated into the vibrant city and thriving cultural centre it is today.
Reacting and responding to the context of the museum and its surrounding community, students have produced work ranging from sculpture, video and installation, to drawing, performance and painting in a show that will be at the museum from 20th May through until the end of August 2008. Leeds College of Art would like to congratulate their alumna, Katherine Fryer, on her 100th birthday. Katherine has had a long, distinguished career both as an artist - she is an accomplished practitioner of drawing, painting and wood engraving - and as a highly regarded teacher. Katherine was born in Leeds on 26 August 1910. She could draw before she could walk, and soon displayed the determination and passion for the creative arts that were to propel her throughout her career. She studied at the College from 1926 - 1931 winning the Princess of Wales Scholarship which helped to fund her studies. She reminisces about the soot-clad buildings, and the grime and general darkness that enveloped the city during those years. As a young artist she used to wonder how the French Impressionists were able to create their brightly coloured canvases from urban scenes. The industrial era has, of course, long since been steam-cleaned away, the mines and mills have closed and Leeds has regenerated into the vibrant city and thriving cultural city and thriving cultural centre it is today.
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Katherine was born in Leeds on 26 August 1910. She could draw before she could walk, and soon displayed the determination and passion for the creative arts that were to propel her throughout her career. She studied at the College from 1926 - 1931 winning the Princess of Wales Scholarship which helped to fund her studies. She reminisces about the soot-clad buildings, and the grime and general darkness that enveloped the city during those years. As a young artist she used to wonder how the French Impressionists were able to create their brightly coloured canvases from urban scenes. The industrial era has, of course, long since been steam-cleaned away, the mines and mills have closed and Leeds has regenerated into the vibrant city and thriving cultural centre it is today.
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