Leeds Canvas A city wide collaboration

Now instead of just talking about the first Leeds Canvas we can begin to share elements as they start to emerge.  During January our composer, Gavin Bryars, supervised the recording of brass, wind, recorders, children, church bells and even the River Aire.  Here, during a break in working with musicians from the Orchestra of Opera [...]

During a visit to the Brothers Quay Dormitorium Exhibition in Leeds Town Hall, writer Toby Litt reflects on the their work and looks forward to OverWorlds and UnderWorlds when the Brothers are the Artists taking the lead for Yorkshire  May 18/19/20th 2012.

Join Alex Croft for a v-bloggers look at the announcement of the first Leeds Canvas OverWorlds & UnderWorlds taking place in the city 18th, 19th & 20th May 2012. Alex Croft takes a v-bloggers look at the launch

  Moira Innes, Director of Leeds Met Gallery and Studio Theatre writes … On Light Night – October 7th – we launch the Dormitorium, an exhibition by the Quay Brothers of what they call film decors and having sorted out all the pragmatic details we spent time last week with the Brothers discussing the installation. The [...]

Leeds Canvas, a partnership between eight of the city’s major arts organisation, is looking for a tenacious freelance Project Coordinator to work on ‘OverWorlds & UnderWorlds’ as part of the Cultural Olympiad 2012.   The Brothers Quay have been invited, as part of the Arts Council’s Artists Taking the Lead Olympiad programme, to create an [...]

In September 2009 we went to Arts Council Yorkshire to pitch for the privilege of delivering Yorkshire’s Artists taking the lead project in 2012. The proposition was simple, we offer the city of Leeds as a canvas to The Brothers Quay, saying, ‘Here’s our city, our people, our landscape, our buildings, our artists, our cultural institutions. We will talk about the things that interest us, the interesting people and places we know, then sit back and ask you to respond.’