pitch – Fine Art Festival of Art 2026

Our second year Fine Art students are showcasing their work in April and May, through a series of projects and exhibitions in a range of venues on campus and across Leeds.

Under the theme of ‘pitch’, the students have come together as thematic groups or as individuals to present their collective concerns, ideas or media in many different public contexts including restaurants, computer departments, pubs, churchyards and mobile sheds.

All spaces, indoors or out, are being considered as possible venues and the opportunity to pitch their work to a diverse range of audience.

pitch: Fine Art Festival of Art 2026 is 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.

Index of exhibitions and projects

Artificial Ecologies

Viewing by invitation only

Beyond the Surface

Hyde Park Book Club, 27-29 Headingley Lane, Headingley, Leeds LS6 1BL
Monday 4 May, 12 to 2pm

Bygones

Maurice Keyworth building, University of Leeds Business School, Moorland Road, Leeds LS6 1AN
Opening times to be confirmed

DND: Interactive Conquest

Common Ground, Leeds University Union, 2 Lifton Place, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JZ
Wednesday 6 May, 6 to 9pm

Don’t Be Shy

Venue and opening times to be confirmed

Elsewhere

Slung Low, The Warehouse In Holbeck, Crosby Street, Leeds, LS11 9RQ
Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 May, 10am to 4pm
Private view: Wednesday 6 May, 7 to 9pm

Flea Circus

North light Arts Centre, Chapel Allerton
Wednesday 29 April to Wednesday 6 May 

North Bar, New Briggate
Saturday 7 May to Saturday 16 May

flipbook

Online

I Eat Therefore I Am

Venue and opening times to be confirmed

Life could be beautiful if you let it

Venue and opening times to be confirmed

Memories of Meanwood

Pyramid of Arts, Unit 62, Croydon St, Holbeck, Leeds LS11 9RT
Friday 1 May to Monday 18 May

Movement

Northlight Arts Centre, 31 Potternewton Lane, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, LS7 3LW
Thursday 7 to Thursday 14 May

Neo-tribalism

Primrose Pub, 280 Meanwood Road, Leeds LS7 2HZ
Opening times to be confirmed

Pinch Punch

School of Computer Science, Sir William Henry Bragg Building, University of Leeds, Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 9JT 
Tuesday 5 May to Friday 22 May

RAW: The Visceral and Vulnerable 

Chapel Forty Nine, 49 Chapel Lane, Headingley, Leeds LS6 3BW
Saturday 9 May, 1 to 6pm

食飯 (sik faan)

Magic Wok
Opening times to be confirmed

The Art of Self-Defence

Venue and opening times to be confirmed

The Shed

Dagmar Wood, St. Michael’s Church and Left Bank
The Shed moves across venues from Saturday 2 to Sunday 10 May

The Waiting Place

Slung Low Warehouse in Holbeck
Tuesday 5 to Thursday 7 May

Traces of Form

Assembly House, 44 Canal Road, Leeds LS12 2PL
Saturday 9 May, 4 to 8.30pm

Where Connection Moves Us

Hyde Park Book Club, 27-29 Headingley Lane, Headingley, Leeds LS6 1BL
Tuesday 5 May, 11am to 2:30pm

Women and Identity

grounded&co, 3 Cross Belgrave Street, Leeds LS2 8JP
Tuesday 14 April, 10am to 5pm

Σ(in)+compass

Online

Feature image

Selection of works by artists taking part in pitch: Fine Art Festival of Art 2026.