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Eye for detail
An edgy new exhibition at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery shows there is much more to photography than meets the eye.

‘The Object of Photography’ opens on 7 April and runs until 30 June, admission is free.

“We’re so pleased to be showing these fresh, up-and-coming young artists from Yorkshire,” says exhibition curator Layla Bloom. “We hope it will get people talking and thinking more deeply about the images they see every day on the news or in advertising.”

Joe Mawson is interested in how photos can change the social meaning of events. Using toy models, he painstakingly re-creates scenes of disasters, such as the 1988 Lockerbie crash in Scotland. Mawson then photographs his models in highly saturated colour to produce images that are at once both fake and hyper-real.

Italian-born artist Ignaz Cassar, a fine arts PhD student at Leeds, has produced a series of eerie, black-on-black prints of Yorkshire landscapes that shimmer as the viewer moves around them. Another PhD student, Andrew Warstat, isolates stills from an early Laurel and Hardy film and re-animates them to seem uneasy and forbidding.

An interest in illusionism guides Spanishborn artist Hondartza Fraga, who enlarges and transforms photographs of television static to resemble outer space.

For details see www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/events.htm or phone 0113 343 2778.

Inaugural lecture
Professor of geotechnics Barry Clarke (School of Civil Engineering) will give his inaugural lecture on Wednesday, 1 April, starting at 6pm.

‘Earth, wind and fire’ will highlight some of the energy challenges we face due to dwindling supplies of oil and gas, and how they impact on the ground engineering industry.

If you’d like to attend, please print out the invitation at http://tinyurl.com/atxwsv and return it by 25 March. Alternatively, email Stephanie Day, s.j.day@leeds.ac.uk with ‘Inaugural lecture’ as the subject or phone 0113 343 8461.

Musical postcode
LS2 The School of Music Contemporary Music Ensemble will give a ‘Rush Hour Recital’ on Friday, 24 April in the Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, starting at 6pm.

Directed by Dr Michael Spencer and Adam Ferguson, the programme includes Chaya Czernowin’s Afatsim; BBC Philharmonic composer James MacMillan’s …as others see us, and a composition by Leeds postgraduate students.

Admission is free. This event is part of the Contemporary Music Festival on campus from 22 to 29 April.

For details see http://tinyurl.com/5k9wcp

Employee benefits fair
The employee benefits fair on Wednesday, 25 March is the best place for all staff to learn about the huge range of benefits, discounts and support available to you.

Drop into Parkinson Court from 11am to 3pm and enjoy a free muffin and drink! Find out how to get discounts on travel, lifestyle and shopping, and get information on maternity leave, sickness rights, childcare and health insurance.

Some of this year’s stalls include Sport & Physical Activity, Staff and Departmental Development Unit (SDDU), the student union (LUU), Opera North, the wellbeing team and Consulting Leeds. Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) will also be offering free advice on legal and welfare rights.

New to the fair this year, staff can sign up for one of two guided tours (11.30am and 1.30pm) of the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery. For details email Layla Bloom at l.bloom@leeds.ac.uk or phone 0113 343 2777.

Tibor’s textiles
A selection of works by the 20th century textile designer Tibor Reich are the focus of a new exhibition opening on 31 March at the University of Leeds International Textiles Archive (ULITA).

After studying textile technology and design at the University of Leeds in the 1940s, Reich set up Tibor Ltd, which became one of the most innovative textile companies of the post-war period. His prestigious list of clients included Concorde, British Airways and Lotus Cars.

The ULITA exhibition comes from a collection of several thousand woven and printed textile samples designed by Tibor Reich, including some of his most famous designs such as ‘Age of Kings’ (pictured above).

‘Tibor Reich: a Life of Colour and Weave’ is showing until 26 June 2009 (closed over Easter bank holiday weekend), Tuesday to Friday, 9.30am to 4.30pm, admission is free. For further details see www.leeds.ac.uk/ulita or phone 0113 343 3919.

More events
See www.leeds.ac.uk/events for details of the many other events happening on campus.

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From March, the events sheet will only be available online.