Perspectives on Public Art

Your guides for this tour will be Layla Bloom, Curator, and Pietro Bellomo, whose research studies the impact of public art on people’s lives.

The University of Leeds campus is home to an extensive range of public sculpture. In this audio tour as part of Being Human Festival, you will be able to look at some of those sculptures from different perspectives. The tour will enable you to discover the stories behind the sculptures and how different audiences interpret and interact with them.

Your guides for the tour will be Layla Bloom, Curator, and Pietro Bellomo, whose research studies the impact of public art on people’s lives. What did the artists intend when they created the artworks and how do people feel about them now? Take a walk to see the sculptures, see what you think of them and share your own thoughts.