Project REBOOT is a Leeds-wide creative project. We are asking for everyone to re-design a government Covid poster and change it to say something new. Posters will be printed and displayed on the Old Red Bus Station in Leeds to coincide with the easing of lockdown April - June 2021. Turning the venue into a huge message board and sending positive messages to the city through this transition.
We're excited to welcome ArtNight to The Old Red Bus Station in June. ArtNight is an art event company which originated in Berlin in 2016 and has continued to spread all over Europe. They have brought their events to London, Manchester, Sheffield and now they're extending their creative experience to Leeds.
Their mission is to create fun, exciting events which bring people together while getting arty and allows an escape from our increasingly busy lives.
The Old Red Bus Station presents FEMALE GAZE: A Multi Media Exhibition
In celebration of International Women's Day FEMALE GAZE at The Old Red Bus Station will feature a visual array brimming full of Leeds’ female talent showcasing work by in demand local artists, such as illustrator and Leeds Arts University alumni Bobbi Rae, indie brand owner and designer The Prawn Shop, and a collection of LAU’s latest creatives. In celebration of International Women’s Day, this exciting multi media group exhibition will explore the diverse experience of being a woman, and seeing the world through a female lens through illustration, photography, painting and more! Showcasing women in all forms, big bad and beautiful feast your eyes on on the FEMALE GAZE!
This event will show work by:
More to be announced!
Vibrant colours and a joyfully honest perspective on the female form can be expected by illustrator and designer Bobbi Rae. Her work ‘promises to bring you vivid colour, vivacious ladies and a barrel of laughs’; her appearance in this exhibition is not to be missed. Bobbi Rae is known for playful illustration practice as well as her big and bold murals as part of creative duo Modes of Expression.
Local up and coming independent business The Prawn Shop explores the female form in illustrations and flamboyant merchandise. Soon to be graduating from Leeds Arts University, Georgia Hamilton of The Prawn Shop recently debuted her newest collection at her successful launch party, held at The Old Red Bus Station earlier this month.
This exhibition also hosts the work of many of LAU’s soon to be graduates, including printmaker and painter Ruby Shelton and local feminist activist artist Liv Talbot. Female Gaze will exhibit an array of ‘ones to watch’ coming into the creative industry, each giving their take on the female experience!
Join us on Thursday the 7th of March between 7pm - 11pm upstairs at The Old Red Bus Station. Our Happy Hour is between 5pm - 7pm at the bar so come early for a bev (and a bite if you're starvin')!
Check out all our International Women’s Day listings at TORBS:
Thursday 7th - Female Gaze // Exhibition
Friday 8th - CUN Presents Shyboi (Discwoman) & Breakwave
Saturday 9th - IWD - DJ Workshops in Association with Equaliser at ORBS
Saturday 9th - Knockers ★ SLUT DROP and Coppafeel!
Opening night: November 7th 2018 from 6pm
Growing up in the rural area of Kuyavia District, Poland defined not only my character but also the way how I see the world as an artist. Open space, wide horizon, no streets, no street lights just pitched black nights filled with the quiet stars. Emptiness with a depth. The depth that with the time passing by I will fill with thoughts and images of my own Space of Lights.
Illustration, print collage and more from BA Illustration students at Leeds Arts University.
Third Wednesday of each month, 6-8pm
