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So excited to finally announce that I’ve been chosen as a Fellow for the British Pavillion at the Venice Biennale!!!! With this incredible opportunity I’ll spend a month in Venice at @labiennale one of the longest-running and most prestigious cultural festivals, developing a personal creative project and acting as an ambassador for the 2026 commission, Lubaina Himid’s ‘Predicting History Testing Translation’. yippppeeeeeeeee (⁠＾⁠∇⁠＾⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♪ @britisharts @lubainapics @yorkstjohn #BritishCouncil #BritishPavilion #BritishArts #VeniceFellowshipsProgramme #VeniceFellowships

a few pictures of my work in 'Provenance' a pop up exhibition collaboration with @cole.pallett last month in @vessel_ysj ▼⁠・⁠ᴥ⁠・⁠▼

As a former textile mill, we are naturally passionate about championing weaving and paving the way for up-and-coming textile artists. On that note, we’re excited to welcome Ones to Watch artist and talented contemporary weaver Tom Hardwick to the Finishing Room this Thursday evening! Tom will be running an ornamental stone weaving workshop as part of this season’s Overtime Art Club. In this workshop, you will learn to weave using only a stone, a needle and some yarn to create a beautiful and unique ornamental stone. Through this accessible approach to weaving, participants will learn basic weaving techniques and simple approaches to designing weaving patterns and tapestries, as well as explore how traditional textiles practices such as weaving can allow us to engage with the material world through a tactile form of knowledge production. Thursday 19th March 18:00 - 20:00 | £14 Book now to guarantee your spot (link in bio) About Tom: Tom Hardwick is a Leeds-based artist studying an MFA at York St John University. Their practice interrogates the material frameworks of memory and knowledge in the Digital Age, reconsidering the conventions of the document through the medium of textiles. Through hand-weaving, Tom re-materialises and re-humanises the act of data processing, exposing the limitations of digital technology and demonstrating a resistant approach to knowledge that is deliberately slow, soft, tactile, terrestrial and laborious. Continuing to contend with the digitisation of the archive, Our Libraries Will Not Burn, They Will Disappear Without A Trace, featured in Ones to Watch, addresses the family photograph, encouraging audiences to consider the personal implications of the digitised archive, and their own role in the ongoing mass accumulation of digital data. This pair of handwoven tapestries combine the rigid and formulaic structure of the digital image with the softness and fluidity of textile, exemplifying the fragility of the digital image while forcing Tom to take agency in the preservation of their own personal photographs. #OvertimeArtClub #EmergingArtists #LocalArtists #CreativeWorkshops #SunnyBankMills #LeedsEvents #LeedsWorkshops

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‘Provenance’ Our upcoming exhibition features Tom Hardwick and Cole Pallett. ‘Provenance’ engages with a materially focused exploration of the physical document. Group Exhibition Opening: 17:00-19:00 March: 12th–15th Vessel | Phoenix Court 📍 We hope to see you there! ✨

We were over the moon to be joined by SIX of this year’s Ones to Watch artists this afternoon as part of one of Agnis' packed out monthly Tea and Textiles meet ups. A huge thank you to Reece Kelly, Scarlet Foster, Ella Brereton, Tom Hardwick, Cassy Oliphant & Ellis Hutton for being part of it! We heard about their processes, use of materials and had a look at some new ideas the artists have been working on. You can see the work of these talented emerging artists in Ones to Watch 2026 - open in the Gallery until 29th March. Reece, Tom & Charlotte will also be joining us later this month to run casual workshops as part of our Overtime Art Club series; 🐴 Create Absurdist Sculptures w/ Charlotte Miles Thursday 12th March 18:00 - 20:00 | £14 Join artist Charlotte to explore character concept and storytelling using collage. 🪨 Weaving on a Stone w/ Tom Hardwick Thursday 26th March 18:00 - 20:00 | £14 Join Tom in the Finishing Room to learn weaving techniques & create a unique ornamental stone! 👁️ Make Your Own Eye Charm w/ Reece Kelly Thursday 26th March 18:00 - 20:00 | £14 Join Ones to Watch artist Reece and create Georgian era eye charms to take home, or add to their exhibited collection. All sessions are suitable for ages 18+. Spaces are limited so book now via the link in our bio! Read more about Ones to Watch on our website. #OvertimeArtClub #EmergingArtists #LocalArtists #CreativeWorkshops #SunnyBankMills #Farsley #LeedsEvents #LeedsWorkshops #YorkshireEvents

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Our final announcement of this year's Ones to Watch programme - Overtime Art Club is BACK! We're staying late at the Mills this March to bring you relaxed evenings of drawing, stitching and more - facilitated by local artists currently exhibiting work in the Gallery as part of our annual Ones to Watch exhibition for emerging talent. You're welcome to bring your own drinks to the sessions, we'll provide all the materials you'll need. 🧶 Stone Weaving w/ Tom Hardwick Thursday 18th March 18:00 - 20:00 | £14 In this workshop, you’ll learn to weaving using only a stone, a needle and some yarn to create a beautiful and unique ornamental stone. 🐴 Create Absurdist Sculptures w/ Charlotte Miles Tuesday 24th March 18:00 - 20:00 | £14 This workshop will focus on Absurdist narratives, which are stories containing illogical events, characters and sometimes even lack an ending. These narratives can be translated into three-dimensional sculptures in the form of vignettes (snap shots) of the story’s climax. By using imagery from magazines and newspapers as a foundation for our stories, we will embellish and attach them together to form illogical and surreal scenes from an Absurd narrative of your creation. 👁️ Make Your Own Eye Charm w/ Reece Kelly Thursday 5th March 18:00 - 20:00 | £14 Create Georgian era eye charms to take home, or add to Reece’s exhibited collection. During this workshop, participants will learn the history behind a lost fashion trend from the Georgian era, and how this lost piece of history has informed artist Reece’s practice and the eye charms that appear in their work. In the workshop we will sew, embroider and bead these charms and use a mix of materials to embellish and create a beautiful unique charm personal to you! You can take your charm away with you or choose to leave it with Reece to add to their exhibited collections. All sessions are suitable for ages 18+. Spaces are limited - BOOK NOW via the link in our bio. #OvertimeArtClub #EmergingArtists #LocalArtists #CreativeWorkshops #SunnyBankMills #Farsley #LeedsEvents #LeedsWorkshops #YorkshireEvents

some documents :p

started engraving :⁠0