PGR Group Exhibition: Practice holds Discovery

Date & Place
Private view: 6-9pm, Wednesday 18 June 2025
Exhibition open : 11am-4pm on 19 & 20 June, then 12noon-3pm on 21June
Location: Patrick Studios, St Mary’s Lane – Leeds LS9 7EH

Practice holds Discovery is a group exhibition featuring work by PhD researchers from the School of Design and the School of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. It brings together a variety of artistic and design practices shaped through distinct approaches to materials, methods, form, and critical reflection, offering insight into how practice itself can function as a mode of investigation and discovery.

The title expresses a shared belief in the capacity of creative practice to generate new insights and deepen understanding within academic research. Throughout the exhibition, the interplay between making and thinking is evident, articulating how discovery can emerge through the. specific processes and reflective approaches that inform each researcher’s work. Spanning a
range of disciplines and media, the exhibition highlights the diversity and continuing evolution of practice research.


Walking

Across the world, walking is a vital way to assert one’s presence in public space and discourse. Walking maps the terrain of contemporary walking practices, foregrounding work by Black artists, Indigenous artists and artists of colour, working-class artists, LGBTQI+ artists, disabled artists and neurodiverse artists, as well as many more who are frequently denied the right to take their places in public space, not only in the street or the countryside, but also in art discourse. This anthology contends that, as a relational practice, walking inevitably touches upon questions of access, public space, land ownership, and use. Walking is, therefore, always a political act.

Artists surveyed include:
Stanley Brouwn, Laura Grace Ford, Regina Jose Galindo, Emily Hesse, Tehching Hsieh, Kongo Astronauts, Myriam Lefkowitz, Sharon Kivland, Andre Komatsu, Steve McQueen, Jade Montserrat, Sara Morawetz, Paulo Nazareth, Carmen Papalia, Ingrid Pollard, Issa Samb, Sop, Iman Tajik, Tentative Collective, Anna Zvyagintseva. Writers include: Jason Allen-Paisant, Tanya Barson, André Brasil, Amanda Cachia, Sarah Jane Cervenak, Annie Dillard, Jacques Derrida, Dwayne Donald, Darby English, Édouard Glissant, Steve Graby, Antje von Graevenitz, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Kathleen Jamie, Carl Lavery, JeeYeun Lee, Michael Marder, Gabriella Nugent, Isobel Parker Philip, Rebecca Solnit.

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Film Intro – Letters to the Landscape

A box was found in an attic, along with old photographic equipment, containing family photographs, letters and over 300 postcards of Brontë Country.  Polaroids, pinhole photographs and a map were also found in the box. This film is inspired by this collection.