Fine Art students involved in this year’s degree show, ‘Shift’, took their first opportunity to show work at 6 Grosvenor Mount, Woodhouse, on March 22nd.
The choice of venue was important – Leeds Community Project are currently occupying an ex-University of Leeds Agriculture facility at 6 Grosvenor Mount, which the University are trying to sell to private housing developers for the sum of £600,000.
The space consists of a network of some seven purpose-built glasshouses, beautiful, functional structures that have been allowed to fall into disrepair by the University. A large garden sprawls out from the main buildings, host to several rare plant species, and now host to Leeds Community Project, an association of passionate locals and students keen to retain this unique property for use by the community. In a city that recorded 4,747 long-term empty homes in 2014, more private housing is not what Leeds needs. Continue reading “Shift @ Leeds Community Project”