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 create here in Bramley and Stanningley.

​We invite you to explore the art, reflect on the stories, and consider how creativity can be a force for resistance and change.