Fri 15 Aug
|The Mill Gallery
Protest & Pride – Art as Resistance
Protest & Pride – Art as Resistance, an exhibition that celebrates queer creativity, resilience, and the power of art to challenge, uplift, and unite.
Time & Location
15 Aug 2025, 18:30 – 21:00
The Mill Gallery, Grange Mills, Unit 5, The Other Studios, Cardinal House, Stanningley Rd, Swinnow, Leeds LS13 4EP, UK
About the Event
Protest & Pride – Art as Resistance
15 August - 5 September 2025
Welcome to Protest & Pride – Art as Resistance, an exhibition that celebrates queer creativity, resilience, and the power of art to challenge, uplift, and unite.
This exhibition brings together work by LGBTQIA+ artists who use art as a tool for protest — from acts of personal defiance to collective movements for justice. Here you’ll find responses to LGBTQIA+ rights, climate justice, disability activism, anti-racism, and more. Alongside expressions of righteous anger, there is also radical joy — because celebration is protest too.
Protest & Pride is the first exhibition in The People’s Gallery, a new free gallery space supported by the People’s Postcode Lottery and run alongside our main space at Aire Place Studios. The People’s Gallery aims to make the arts more accessible, inclusive, and community-led — shaped by the people who live and…