Meet #FUAM2024 finalist Mathilda Doubleday from @fahacs Mathilda explores how fungi networks can offer alternative societal models: "They have a different form of intelligence, different from what our society values ... and I think they can inspire us” bit.ly/FUAM2024

This week's #MuseumJigsaw is an image from Cook Up Recipe Book, produced by members of Leeds Asylum Seekers' Support Network as part of our Welcoming Migrants programme, and available to buy Sunny Bank Mills' current exhibition, Don't Play With Your Food! bit.ly/LULGJigsaws

After leading the modernist®'s tour of our public sculpture earlier this month, Steve Marland has shared his favourite route around campus: modernmooch.com/2024/08/12/pub… While summer's here, why not pick up our new map in the Galleries and find your own way, at your own pace...

Get some perspective on furniture design with an exclusive tour of our current Treasures of the Brotherton exhibition for Heritage Open Days. Book your free ticket now for Fall in Love with Furniture - The Library of John Bedford, Wed 11 September from 11am library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1…

This week's Art UK #OnlineArtExchange is outer space for Out of this World, Heather Phillipson at @glynnvivian We love the celestial skies in both 'Cow Considering the Stars and Moon' by Peter Folkes RWA Bristol and Stephen Clatworthy's 'Moon and Stars at Hovingham' 🌙🌠

Meet #FUAM2024 finalist Ella Georgiou from @fahacs Ella invites audiences to stop and think about how they relate to their surroundings: “I seek to shift the perception of sound, to take interest in the unremarkable hum that continually occurs” bit.ly/FUAM2024

A heads up for the upcoming sunny (fingers crossed) summer bank holiday... The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Treasures of the Brotherton and Brotherton Research Centre will all be CLOSED Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 August We will be back open as usual from Wednesday 28 August 🌞

Just to let you know: Treasures of the Brotherton will be closed this morning, Saturday 24 August. We will be open this afternoon 2pm - 5pm. The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery is open 10am - 5pm as usual. Have a wonderful Saturday!

In honour of the #BankHoliday today, our #MuseumJigsaw is our highest flying piece of Public Art, 'Hermes'. This piece was fittingly originally commissioned from the sculptor, William Chattaway, in 1958 by the Midland Bank Overseas Branch 🏦 🧩 bit.ly/LULGJigsaws

Perfect for a post-work stroll, our Public Art Walk next Thursday 5 September starts at 5.30pm. Stretch your legs, get some air and learn more about the amazing art on campus... book your free place now! library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1…

We’re looking at luxurious fabrics in #StillLife for today's #OnlineArtExchange Art UK for Pallant House Gallery. We can’t get enough of the rich patterns in Jean Selby’s ‘Still Life with Apples’ (Edinburgh College of Art) and the vivid textural tones in William MacTaggart’s 'Still Life'

Meet #FUAM2024 finalist Saba Siddiqui from @uoldesign Saba draws on her own family history to explore the contributions of South Asians to Yorkshire’s textile past: “I want to celebrate how two cultures can interact and the meaning of home and memories” bit.ly/FUAM2024

Student Job Opportunity! This is your last chance to apply for our Galleries Student Internship. Closing date: 1st Sept: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Uni Leeds Students AHC Opportunities Leeds Uni Library

🧩Today’s #MuseumJigsaw is Henry Lawford’s gloriously garish 1855 sofa catalogue, currently on display in Treasures of the Brotherton. bit.ly/LULGJigsaws 🎟️Exclusive curator tours of our Part of the Furniture exhibition on Wed 11 September for Heritage Open Days - book now!

September means: 🎒 Kids go back to school 🍂 Seasons begin to change 🏛️ Heritage Open Days We love Heritage Open Days, and this year we have an exclusive tour of our exhibition, Part of the Furniture Wed 11 Sept: Morning Tour, 11am Afternoon Tour, 2pm library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1…

Plans this evening? There's still time to grab yourself a ticket to our free Public Art Walk 👣 Whilst we can't promise sunshine, we do guarantee you'll see some superb sculptures on this guided tour of the artworks on campus See you at 5.30! Tickets: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1…

We’re looking at Terry Frost’s use of #yellow for today’s #OnlineArtExchange Art UK for The Harris We love the rich warm tones in ‘Orange and Yellow Verticals’ (Fitzwilliam Museum) and the expressive use of direction and mark making in ‘Mars Red, Yellow and Brown’ 💛