Reframe: New Perspectives in Photography
12 September - 26 September 2025
Reframe brings together the work of photographers who are shifting how we see the world — reframing the familiar, challenging assumptions, and expanding the language of photography.
From intimate portraits and bold conceptual pieces to documentary work and experimental techniques, this exhibition explores what it means to look, to notice, and to tell stories through images. Each photograph in Reframe offers a new way of seeing — capturing moments, moods, and messages that move beyond the surface.
At The Mill Gallery, we are committed to platforming both emerging and established artists who are pushing boundaries and opening up fresh conversations. Reframe reflects the diversity and dynamism of contemporary photography today — and invites you to step into the frame, and see things differently.
One Moment In Time
12 September - 26 September 2025
In One Moment In Time, Bramley-based photographer Paul Abraham turns his lens toward the quiet, everyday moments that often go unnoticed — yet speak volumes.
From fleeting expressions and still corners of the city to unguarded gestures and subtle light shifts, Paul’s work captures the poetry in the ordinary. His images are both observational and emotional, offering a sense of calm, honesty, and deep attention to the world around him.
Grounded in real places and real people, this collection invites us to slow down and see the familiar differently — to find beauty, humour, and meaning in the unremarkable moments that make up our lives.
GESTURES
15 August - 5 September 2025
A Radical First Look from the Resilient Artist Cohort
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Gesture explores the many ways movement, mark-making, and intention shape artistic practice. From layered landscapes that shift with emotion, to energetic strokes alive with vitality, to abstract compositions that carry the weight of memory and heritage, each work reveals gesture as both signal and action.
Some pieces trace the quiet rhythms of daily life — the repeated movements of care, the subtle adjustments shaped by cultural expectation. Others hold stillness, where the placement of objects, colour, and form suggest emotion without the human figure.
This is the first exhibition in a 12-month journey with the Resilient Artist Cohort, a live experiment: open-ended, collaborative, and in motion. We are only at the beginning. Over the year ahead, the artists will continue to develop their practices together, building towards a final exhibition in March 2026. Here, process matters as much as outcome, and every gesture, large or small, leaves its mark.
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.
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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 create here in Bramley and Stanningley.
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We invite you to explore the art, reflect on the stories, and consider how creativity can be a force for resistance and change.
Start With One
16 May - 6 June 2025
An Exhibition for First-Time Collectors – All Artworks Priced at £100!
​The Mill Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Start with One, a ground breaking exhibition designed specifically for first-time art collectors. The exhibition, which opens on 16th May, will feature 45 original artworks, each priced at just £100, making it the perfect opportunity for those looking to start their own art collection without the pressure of high price tags or complex art jargon.
​Start with One aims to demystify the world of art collecting, offering a welcoming and accessible space for anyone interested in acquiring their very first piece of original art. The exhibition is built around the idea that owning art should feel inviting and achievable for all, regardless of experience or knowledge.
​Spanning a diverse range of mediums, styles, and artistic voices, ensuring that there is something for every taste and every wall. From bold paintings to delicate prints, abstract works to figurative pieces, the show showcases contemporary art in a variety of forms. The exhibition offers collectors an exciting chance to discover new artists, connect with their stories, and start a relationship with art that could last a lifetime.
​The exhibition invites visitors to engage with the art, find something that resonates with them, and take home their very first piece to begin their collection.
Summer
Exhibition
20 June - 3 August 2025
The Mill Gallery is excited to present Summer Exhibition 2025, a dynamic group show featuring an inspiring collection of works by both emerging and established artists. Opening on Friday 20th June, this exhibition brings together a vibrant mix of painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and printmaking, capturing the energy and diversity of today’s contemporary art scene.
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Summer Exhibition 2025 celebrates creativity without boundaries, offering visitors a unique opportunity to experience a wide spectrum of artistic voices and styles. From intimate, detailed works to bold, large-scale statements, the exhibition showcases the innovative approaches artists take to form, material, and concept.
Designed to engage and inspire, the show invites all visitors to explore and connect with the works on display. Whether you’re passionate about art or simply curious, this exhibition offers a welcoming space to discover fresh perspectives and experience the vibrant pulse of contemporary practice.
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Step into the gallery and join a community where creative voices converge, dialogue unfolds, and art comes alive.
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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, resistance, and reconstruction speaks to the dual experience of artists who build for others while carving out space for themselves. Just as artist-led spaces exist in the gaps left by commercial and institutional systems, Francis and Morrison create work that occupies the in-between, challenging what is fixed, reclaiming what is lost, and making visible what is often overlooked.
Behind the Spaces is both an exhibition and a statement: a reclaiming of time, practice, and creative autonomy by the very artists who make space for others.
Print It! 2025
7 March - 28 March 2025
The fifth edition of Print It! continues its mission to make art accessible by removing financial and logistical barriers for artists. In collaboration with The Mill Gallery, this year’s exhibition showcases diverse works in visual art, photography, illustration, and digital art from artists worldwide.
By embracing a digital format, Print It! eliminates the need for physical materials, expanding opportunities for artists to share their work globally. Each participating artist also receives a book featuring all exhibited artworks, fostering an inclusive creative experience.
More than just an exhibition, Print It! redefines how art is shared and celebrated today.
Art By Chance
7 February - 28 February 2025
Art by Chance at The Mill Gallery is a bold, playful exhibition that embraces randomness as the ultimate curator. This unique showcase invites artists from all backgrounds to submit their work, with spots on the gallery walls granted by pure chance alone. With no selection panel and no juried process, the exhibition lineup is determined entirely by the spin of a bingo wheel, creating an open and democratic art experience.
Participating artists purchased numbers to represent their entries, and once the submission period closed, The Mill Gallery assigned them their numbers. In a series of live bingo draws on Instagram, the wheel selected numbers at random, filling the gallery “house” one artwork at a time until all spots were claimed. This light-hearted process breaks down traditional barriers to entry, offering artists an equal chance to showcase their work and bringing an element of thrill and unpredictability.
The Still & Me
7 February - 28 February 2025
The Still & Me brings a fresh perspective to still life, blending tradition with modern creativity. This exhibition invites artists to reimagine the genre, from bold paintings to innovative sculptures, showcasing how contemporary artists breathe new life into a centuries-old subject.
A cornerstone of artistic expression for centuries, still life offers endless possibilities for experimentation. The Still & Me challenges artists to push its boundaries—exploring fruit, flowers, bodies, landscapes, and unexpected contemporary twists on 16th-century motifs.
This vibrant exhibition celebrates the diversity of still life, highlighting nature, the human form, and everyday objects across painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and print. Whether classical or unconventional, each piece invites you to see still life in a new way.
Celf Ar Waliau
29 November - 13 December 2024
We are thrilled to present Celf Ar Waliau, a bold group exhibition
showcasing the multifaceted talents of contemporary Leeds-based artists. This exhibition is an adventurous dive into the dark, whimsical, and deeply human aspects of our world, as seen through the eyes of each artist. With works that range from textured sculptures to mixed media, painting, and photography, Celf Ar Waliau is a celebration of diverse creative voices.
Through a combination of humour, sadness, and bold imagery, the
artist’s craft a surreal yet relatable narrative. Their pieces explore
personal, societal, and conceptual connections, bringing to life
both the magical and melancholic aspects of our experiences.
The dialogue between the works creates an interplay of light and
shadow, leaving room for interpretation and emotional resonance.
From the tactile to the intangible, this exhibition takes your senses
on a journey—where the familiar becomes strange, and the strange becomes beautifully familiar. Step into a world where the bold, the dark, and the whimsical collide, and prepare to be immersed in a truly unforgettable artistic experience.