Pinch Punch

Featuring work by second year fine art students, Pinch Punch brings fine art practice into the realm of computing history.

Artists Georgia Warrington and Molly Clarke encode poetic language through textile work and print, acknowledging the lost biographies of those who developed computing.

Respectively, the artists explore the mechanisation of weaving as a forerunner to modern computing, and the Allied codebreaking effort in the second world war.

The exhibition will display quilts encoded with letter excerpts in binary language, and prints referring to wartime documentation which house poetry. These works merge the presumed systematic barrier between art and science.

The exhibition will be held in a computer room in the Sir William Henry Bragg Building, unexpectedly bringing art into a space of computing.

Artists

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Molly Clarke I Instagram I LinkedIn

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Venue

School of Computer Science
Sir William Henry Bragg Building (Room 2.07)
University of Leeds
Woodhouse
Leeds LS2 9J

 

More information

Pinch Punch is one of a number of level 2 student exhibitions and projects taking place across Leeds this April and May as part of pitch: Fine Art Festival of Art 2026. 

See the full programme of projects and exhibitions.

pitch: Fine Art Festival of Art 2026 is also part of Situation Leeds Festival, happening across May and June 2026, celebrating contemporary art in the public realm. Situation Leeds is supported by Yorkshire Visual Arts Network and Hyde Park Book Club.

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Pinching the Punch by Molly Clarke and Georgia Warrington.