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PANIC!

PANIC! Promoting an Artists' Network in the Crisis

How to join PANIC!

  • Sign up to our PANIC! network mailing list
  • Join our programme of talks and activities
  • Share opportunities, events, research and learning with us to distribute throughout PANIC! Artists’ Network
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Led by artists, curators, organisations and individuals in Leeds City Region, PANIC! worked to create an artists' network in Leeds in response to the pandemic.

Here, discover the artworks commissioned through project and resources pulled together by the steering group and The Tetley team.

Collectively, the network offered benefits through:

  • platforming activities;
  • sharing information;
  • offering mentoring support;
  • and distributing bursaries for practising artists.

The PANIC! Steering Group was made up of seven artist members, three artist advisors and The Tetley Team. They distributed the bursaries and advised, assisted and promoted the PANIC! Network and activity.

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Artists' resources

We've pulled together a list of resources covering artists' statements, CV and invoice templates, plus research, podcast and opportunities sites.

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PANIC! Bursary artists

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Round one bursary artworks

Discover the artwork of our first four bursary recipients: alabamathirteen, Thahmina Begum, Kevin Devonport and Hannah Lawless here.

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A black and white photograph of a concrete structure with a person laying on top of it

Round two bursary artworks

We are delighted to present here the artworks of our second round of bursary recipients.

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City scene, pavement in the foreground, lined with a patchwork concrete and brick wall, a tall green wire fence blocking off an overgrown concrete slab with bin bags. Houses and an 11-storey high-rise are in the background. A person in a black jumpsuit is in the centre frame, walking across the pavement, pulling a neon orange ratchet strap attached to a small metal plate which is being dragged along the pavement.

Presenting our round three PANIC! bursary artworks

We share here the artworks of our round three bursary recipients.

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Current opportunities

Our Aims

To create a network of artists living or working in the Leeds City Region

To distribute the available funds through six bursaries, and ten smaller grants for artistic projects that address the specific nature of the world crisis in the wake of the 2020 pandemic

To support artists to make new work exploring the conditions, experiences, pressures and possibilities of enforced digital sociability and the related phenomenological, psychological, social, cultural transformation of our lives

To offer opportunities for members to attend network events, such as talks, mentoring sessions and crits, with invited artists, curators, dealers, writers and others

To critically engage and address the entanglements of the axes of power: race, class, disability, gender, sexuality and the complex experiences of situated, self-reflexive diversity among the creative communities of Leeds

To share, activate and action the research that has been done on the role and significance of artist-led and artist-based initiatives in the creation and sustaining of visual arts in cities

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Participation

We work with communities and young people in Leeds to collaboratively explore art, making and ideas.

PANIC! Steering Group

The PANIC! Steering Group is made up of seven artist members, three artist advisors and The Tetley Team.