The Sunday Review

This was ment to be the sunday review on the 6th of March but things got the better of me
Leeds Art Walk 03/03/10

Straggling behind the main bulk of of art appreciators out on the cultural razzle in Leeds I found this months art walk to be a mixed bag.
first call was the Midnight Bell where I discovered for the first time the drawings of Richard Taylor

'drawings address the subject of living environments from the opposing viewpoint of creating structures that are subtly different each time and repetition is non existent.'
http://www.midnightbell.co.uk/news/read/bellspace-gallery

I really enjoyed these expressive yet detailed drawing's reminding me in part of illustrations from Einid Blyton's Magic Faraway tree, not to suggest in any way that these drawings where quaint and I think there impact was blighted from being on display in a pub, they where deffinatly not 'cafe art'

Next Stop along the way (reached by bus rather than foot I will add addmit) was the Henry Moore institute for a brief talk on the curren't exhibition, Alan Johnsonton's wall drawings

I must say I was far more taken with the reasoning for the work than the work it's self

'Johnston’s drawings give new perspectives to familiar spaces; thus the striking architecture of the Institute’s top-lit galleries – Victorian wool merchants’ offices which were converted by Dixon Jones in 1993 – comes into focus. Whilst not being obviously three-dimensional, the drawings highlight the galleries as sculptural spaces in their own right. Alongside and framed within the large wall drawings, the exhibition includes a series of smaller abstract pencil drawings on plaster, lino, and wood prepared with titanium and zinc white.'
http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/hmi/exhibitions/alan-johnston

Did the wall drawings do any more to highlight the space than leaving the space white would have done?

Next stop 'The art Market' Merrion Market,

I think the art market is a fantastic set up, they will soon if they have not already be opening a mini shop down at PSL

The current exhibition is of work from an ex leeds uni student and member of the art market 'hub' along with a guest artist (names may be inserted at a later date) both artists work with photography and there work held a simular sence on nostalgie/place in the 70's
in terms of practicall display, the work was all fairly small scale and hung in a very infromal way. Some of the images where mounted directly onto the wall, while others where simply in clip frames I don't think this worked for me unless the aim of a piece of work is to be uninposing it should be hung in a way that comands some kind of respect.
otherwise it may as well stay blutaked to the studio wall.

The next stop on the walk was trinity where there where free mini eggs and crispy buns a plenty!
there was a performance piece by urban angels, which I personaly found not to be enjoyable, there where times when it was increadably moving however these where when the performer was still.
follow this link to learn more of urban angels http://www.urbanangelscircus.com/