Barkston Ceramics Studio is a workspace and ceramics facility in South Leeds. Home to 10 self contained studios our community of artists include career ceramicists, makers and pottery collectives.
The facility is aimed at artists who have some experience of working with or have trained in ceramics or plan to subsidise their making through workshop teaching.
Facilities and services include a part-time technician, two kilns (one front loading, one top loading), a pug mill, wheels, washout sinks, purpose-built mobile drying storage, and group workspaces.
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News
Leeds Creative Labs Follow on Fund: Herfa Martina Thompson Dr Zoe Tongue
Visual artist Herfa Martina Thompson and Law lecturer Dr Zoe Tongue first collaborated as part of Leeds Creative Labs, a programme that partners artists and academics, initiated by the University of Leeds’ Cultural Institute and facilitated in partnership with East Street Arts.
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History
Listen to the Sounds of New Briggate
Sounds of New Briggate is our podcast series - hosted by local people, telling local stories - which celebrates New Briggate, a unique and vibrant high street in the heart of Leeds.
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News
Artist Mohammad Barrangi’s large-scale murals come to the streets of Leeds
We're working with Leeds-based, Iranian-born illustrator and printmaker Mohammad Barrangi to bring three large-scale paper murals to the streets of Leeds.
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Artist support
Submit your publications to our exhibition and learning library
Do you make books or printed materials on artist-led housing, live/work spaces, civic practice or living archives? Contribute now! Together we can learn.
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Artist support
Artist-Led Housing: Histories, Residencies, Spaces
An evening in conversation with Jonathan Orlek, architectural researcher, director of Studio Polpo, and author, to launch his new book Artist-Led Housing: Histories, Residencies, Spaces.
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Artist support
At Home: Can the archive inform the future?
Take a walk through 30 years of East Street Arts, exploring the No Going Back exhibition, and hear all the tales of project planning and delivery, highs and lows, first hand from the co-founders.