East Street Arts East Street Arts
East Street Arts is a contemporary arts charity founded in 1993 in Leeds, we are an organisation with a membership that creates and provides spaces for visual artists to develop. We focus on building connections between artists and actively encourage engagement with local communities.
Taking reference and inspiration from the history and current development of the artist led movement, studios were developed in East Street Mills and our first public exhibition took place in two empty shop units underneath the railway arches in Leeds city centre. Since then we have continued to explore a myriad of contexts and issues in connection with the ‘alternative’ or non gallery space and our work now extends throughout Yorkshire, the North East, West Midlands, the East of England and London.
We have three permanent studio buildings in Leeds, one in Gateshead and have been freeing up vacant commercial premises since 2010 nationally for artistic use. We have access to a vacant shop in Watford and two offices in Stevenage available for local artists to use as showing or work space.
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My Events
Collective Perspectives / Thu 10 to Sat 19 Apr 2014 (1 week)
Working with Amanartis Studios the third exhibition in the series, entitled “Collective Perspectives”, opens on the 10th April, brings together 5 local artists who are at different stages of their career development to d...
Missing You Already / Thu 03 to Sat 05 Apr 2014 (3 days)
East St Arts welcomes you 'intu' Charter Place for the new show at their Watford Showspace in April 2014 – “Missing you already...™” Opening Event – Thursday 3rd April, 4 - 7pm Closing Event – Saturday 5th April 2014...
Wat Art? / Sat 22 Feb to Fri 14 Mar 2014 (3 weeks)
Wat Art? A new Pop Up Gallery celebrates local artistic talent. East Street Arts is working with Herts Visual Arts and intu Watford to celebrate artistic talent in Watford by transforming a vacant shop in Charter Pla...