Exhibition Launch | Northern Soul by Chris Eastham

Name: Exhibition Launch | Northern Soul by Chris Eastham
Start: 2025-09-03T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-03T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Cardigan Rd, LS6 1LJ Leeds, United Kingdom

Schedule

Wed Sep 03 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Cardigan Rd, LS6 1LJ Leeds, United Kingdom | Leeds, EN

September 3rd – October 10th 2025.
Join us for an new solo exhibition from local Leeds based artist Chris Eastham, Chris is a contemporary figurative artist from Leeds. She trained at Leeds Jacob Kramer College of Art, (now Leeds Arts University) and has a Fine Art Degree from Nottingham Trent. Her work is mainly in oils but she also undertakes printmaking and digital art.
She has a strong sense of draughtsmanship - expressed primarily through her work in portraiture and figure painting. In 2020, Chris was a successful contestant on the popular television program, ‘Sky Television Portrait Artist of The Year’ and has undertaken numerous portrait commissions.
Chris contributed to the rebirth of Neville Street, Leeds and was one of ten selected artists to have her mural, ‘A thread through time,’ featured on the Network Rail murals. Most recently Chris has been exploring her own Northern identity through a series of paintings in which she uses archive photography of the people and places which form part of her Yorkshire heritage.
The exhibition, ‘Northern Soul’ is a collection of her most recent work exploring identity within the north and will be displayed at Left Bank from September 3rd to October 10th (viewable during our café opening times only).
Chris will be presenting a guided talk of her work during the Launch on Wednesday 3rd Sept 6-9pm, please grab a free ticket and let us know you are coming down! If you would like to donate to the space to support our exhibitions you can do this when grabbing a ticket.
Chris will offer four portrait workshops to accompany the exhibitions’ theme of Identity using painting, printmaking and procreate for iPad. The workshops are made available by the kind support of Leeds Cultural Investment Programme generously funded by Leeds City Council.
Workshops are on the following dates and times:
Monday August 18th 1-3pm Portrait Mono Print
Wednesday August 20th 6.30-8.30pm Colour mixing for Portraiture, including use of Procreate for iPad, optional.
Wednesday September 10th 6.30pm-8.30pm Mono print Portraits
Monday September 22nd 1-3pm Colour mixing for Portrait painting, including use of Procreate for iPad, optional.
The workshops in August are free on a first come, first served basis.
The workshops in September are ticketed at £15 per session.