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.