A Place of Sense - a-n The Artists Information Company

Venue: Aire Place Studios
Starts: Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Ends: Thursday, October 27, 2022
Address: Unit 2c, Aire Place Mills, Kirkstall Rd, Leeds LS3 1JL
Location: Yorkshire
Organiser: Aire Place Studios

Featuring works by Maddie Hancocks, Zara Browne-Gilbert, Aasif Davidson, Charlotte Johnson, Isabel Geffryes, Rebecca Cardwell, and Anjana Dey Clark, the show will run from Wednesday 19th October to Thursday 27th October, with the gallery open Wednesdays to Fridays 11am-3pm.

Aire Place Studios is delighted to present Work on Walls Student Edition 2022. This project is designed to help those who missed out on physical exhibitions within the last few years due to COVID19 – giving students, artists, and curators the opportunity to show work in a physical gallery space. Supporting our fellow creatives, lifting spirits, and celebrating the talents Leeds has to offer.

Sarah Francis

Artist Curator Sarah Francis is a Leeds based Artist Curator who focuses on bringing under-recognised artists and narratives to the public, using empathy and warmth to build self-confidence in creatives left behind by the mainstream system. Fascinated by complex possibilities lying dormant in ‘familiar’ environments, setting a challenging dialogue between cultural identity and the inner worlds which we as artists manifest within our work. This conceptual framework draws parallels between artists from differing socio-cultural worlds, whose work follows similar lines in metaphysical realms. Francis' interpretation of the curator is that of a caretaker of other worlds, working in collaboration as the tour guide and storyteller, bringing these converging manifestations to our physical spaces. Francis’ artwork centres around her neurodiverse and queer identity, building her own language and worlds to explore and understand ‘how I made me’; a reference to an early body of work that investigated her inner trauma and re-articulation of her current self. Her work has been shortlisted for the Saatchi Gallery’s Art of Giving Prize, selected by Richard Billingham for Curator’s Choice Noise Young Talent 2009, and recognised in Aesthetica’s 100 Best Contemporary Artists in Europe. In addition to her work, Sarah Francis is the Founder and Director of Aire Place Studios, Leeds. @sarahfrancis.art & @aireplacestudios

Aire Place Studios CIC

Aire Place Studios is a creative studio which holds spaces of equality and solidarity. We host comfortable studios spaces, hold safer spaces for workshops and a bold gallery space centred around innovation and inclusivity. Aire Place Studios also features a collective of associated artists who exist to radically uplift under-represented creatives with empathy and warmth to realise the potential of those often overlooked by traditional art institutions. This dynamic collaboration builds trust and collective accountability to serve our communities.