Fri 04 Apr
|The Mill Gallery
Behind the Spaces: Disrupting the Frame
Step into a world where art challenges tradition and embraces imperfection. Behind the Spaces brings together the bold works of Sarah Francis and Lucy Fiona Morrison, both artists who push boundaries while leading creative change. Discover art that redefines identity, questions societal norms, and r
Time & Location
04 Apr 2025, 13:00 – 18:00
The Mill Gallery, Stanningley Rd, Leeds LS13 4EP, UK
About the Event
Behind the Spaces: Disrupting the Frame
4 April - 2 May 2025
Artist-led spaces are built on the principles of disruption, challenging hierarchies, redefining creative environments, and making space for voices that exist outside traditional frameworks. Yet, the artists who run these spaces often find their own practices side lined by the demands of advocacy, organisation, and community-building. Behind the Spaces brings the work of Sarah Francis and Lucy Fiona Morrison to the forefront, exploring how their personal practices reflect the same radical ethos that drives their leadership.
Both artists push against convention, questioning structures, whether physical, societal, or institutional. Francis works with assemblage, sculpture, and photography to interrogate agency, consent, and the intersection of queer and disabled bodies' memory, land, and self. Morrison disrupts the constraints of the canvas, creating sculptural paintings that reject perfection and embrace tension through misaligned structures and fragmented forms.
Their shared interest in displacement,…