HOLD – BA Fine Art Degree Show 2026

HOLD brings together 34 undergraduate Fine Art students graduating from the University of Leeds this summer.

Over the past couple of years, our communal studios have held us and our work together. Side-by-side, we have developed distinct practices that explore a huge range of materials, issues, mediums, ideas and feelings.

Now the same studio spaces offer our work to welcome a wider audience as we take our turn to present the annual degree show. HOLD embraces the shared studio as a place and a way for making connections – amongst ourselves, between us and all the artists who have studied here before, and now with an audience.

Throughout our studies, we have explored and experimented. There have been successes and failures. Most importantly, there has been determination; a devotion to making and thinking, with each artist taking different directions.

HOLD demonstrates this same commitment. It presents a range of mediums from painting to installation, printmaking to video, and is accompanied by a programme of related engagement events running onsite and online.

The studios have now become galleries, and each one defends our desire for the intermingling of forms, mediums and subject matter. We have refused to create false separations and hope a spirit of staying together in our differences rings loud.

Through this, we want HOLD to open a chance for everyone to find the time and space to connect with us and our work, whether quickly or slowly, impulsively or contemplatively, alone or together.

Artists

Alexandra Plum • Amelia Browne • Amy Jamieson • Caitlín O’ Doherty • Charlotte Levy • Daisy Sophia Krens • Daniel Brocklesby • Elise Palmer • Ella Brereton • Ella Davis • Izzy Cheyne Jones • Jake Jacobs • Jessica Stevens • Lily McCord • Livi Smith • Lottie Smith • Louie da Silva • Louise Porritt • Madeleine Cattanach • Matilda Phillips • Meg Bristol • Melissa Nesbitt • Mia Sylvester • Paige Reuben • Scarlett E K Richardson • Shanklin MacKillop-Hall • Simi Suman • Summer Tait • Talia Skolnick • Tayne Ashwell • Tia Smith • Verity Fleur Moulding • Wiktoria Przybylska • Zusanna Gers

Find out about the artists taking part in the degree show.

Opening times

The exhibition is open daily from 12 to 21 June, 10am to 6pm.

HOLD launches with a Private View on Thursday 1 June, 5.30 to 8pm. All welcome! If you would like to attend, please RSVP to fincomms@leeds.ac.uk.

Venue

School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
University Road
Leeds LS2 9JT

AccessAble guide to the building.

More information

See the HOLD website for further details about the BA Fine Art Degree Show and the artists taking part.

Follow the show on Instagram @hold.degree.show

Find out more about the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.

Image

Design courtesy of HOLD.