The Big Love Show

Featuring our alumni and students, the BIG LOVE SHOW is an exhibition of 30 artists curated by artist, writer & Menace George Storm Fletcher, working with the team at Hyde Park Hyde Park Art Club

The exhibition is only one part of the BIG LOVE project, which explores the meaning of love in an expanded form. The other part is the BIG LOVE Book, a repository and long-lasting device that captures what love is in this present moment.

An enquiry of this kind only makes sense, when it’s shared with others – for this reason, the works were selected through the BIG LOVE open call. The 76 contributors reflect on the theme and tickle a curious understanding of love and loving. 
 
So, let us show you our bleeding, beating or bestill hearts: through drawings, print, photography, poetry, sculpture and prose. Works that are love letters in the broadest sense ... and yes – love is most frequently used for the lovers, but BIG LOVE presents sycophantic, friendship-based and inanimate object revolving loves, as well as those that live and breathe close to us.  
 
The BIG LOVE Book expands the exhibition with a further 50 contributors into 226 pages full of art, prose and poetry in all imaginable forms – kept and treasured in this anthology as something possibly or impossibly sexy.

Join us at the launch of BIG LOVE on the 15th of February from 6pm for an artist’s talk with George Storm and the team, readings and live performances, followed by a Big Love Party with resident beauty DJ Subaru playing tunes in the Snug until 10pm.  
 
Big love from George Storm and the HPAC team x o x free, all welcome, bring your love, reading glasses or your dancing shoes!

Full info on the Hyde Park Book Club website.

The exhibiting artists at Hyde Park Book Club are:

George Storm Fletcher, Emily Eve, Ellie Andrews, Yvonne Baines, Helen Beard, Ellen Burroughs, Astrid Butt, Shauna Cribbin, Charlotte Saint Cullen, Eleanor Dunn, dogman, Maddie Exton, Hannah Guy, Samantha Killinen, Jun Rui Lo, Emilia-Rose Manship, Jill McKnight, Cole Pallett, Julia Pomeroy, Alice Parsons + Harriet Cash, Milly Recci, Dulcie Rhodes, Cal Rutter + Robin Stones, Claudia Sambo, Connor Shields, Sunshine Child, Islay Wolstenholme and Amelia Frances Wood.

The Big Love book features:

Alice Boulton-Breeze, Claye Bowler, Kurtis Brade, Tom Branfoot, Kai Brooks, Eve Bullard, Melissa Burntown, Daniel Chapman, Stella Collier, Rachel Cracknell, Ronnie Danaher, Bob Dunning, Michelle Duxbury, Mariana Edurne, Zoe Everett, Jake Frances Ferguson, Bel Fox, Jingyun Guan, Éléonore Guiraud, Carla Hallgarten, Joshua Hart, Amber Homes, Tallulah Howarth, Saff Jarvis, Aaron Jolley, Lexi Karpathios + Sarah Nolan, Eva Kennington, Sophie Lambert, Ellen Lansdown, Daisy Lewis, Lucky Iris, Lottie Mac, Jack McCulloch, Ekaterina Mendor, James Mellor, Steven Morant, Chiara Morganti, Oran O’Sullivan, Sarah Roberts, Rachel Prince, C. Roseheath, Anna Ross, Izzie Hinton Smith, Flora Snelson, Delilah Sykes, Ufy Art, Simon Williams, Elizabeth Williams-Bulkeley and Hang Zhang.

Exhibition poster for The Big Love Show at Hyde Park Book Club in 2026. Artwork by George Storm Fletcher.

Venue

Hyde Park Book Club
7-29 Headingley Lane
Leeds LS6 1BL

About the fine art alumni, students and staff in the show

Curated by alumni George Storm Fletcher (BA Fine Art 2022, MA Fine Art 2024), we’re excited to see that the BIG LOVE show and book features work by students, alumni and staff from the School of Fine Art, HIstory of Art and Cutlural Studies including:

Aaron Jolley, Astrid Butt, Claye Bowler, Connor Shields, Delilah Sykes, Eleanor Dunn, Ellen Burroughs, Ellen Lansdown, Elizabeth Williams-Bulkeley, Emily Eve, Eve Bullard, George Storm Fletcher, Hang Zhang, Hannah Guy, Jun Rui Lo, Lexi Karpathios, Michelle Duxbury, Robin Stones, Ronnie Danaher.

Feature image         

Image courtesy of George Storm Fletcher.