Media library

On Leeds Civic Hall, Belgian artists Nele Fack and Niels Blondeel were inspired by the mathematical idea of duality. The piece explores how two apparently different things can be alternative expressions of the same underlying form.

Eternal Ensemble at Leeds Minster sees a cellist appearing to perform across multiple points, as spatial audio and immersive projection repeat, layer and transform the performance.

A beautiful ode to memories of a life lived in Leeds took centre stage as one of the major projections at Light Night Leeds. Transforming the façade of The Queens Hotel, Call My Name, Call Me Home combines song and story in a moving celebration of belonging and the places that shape a life.

Enormous butterflies roamed freely through Aire Park at Light Night Leeds.

Enormous butterflies roamed freely through Aire Park at Light Night Leeds.

For Aftereal at Aire Park, visitors can watch a luminous landscape ripple before their eyes as hundreds of fluorescent threads rise, fall and shimmer in ultraviolet light.

The piece at Leeds City Museum sees three magnificent European eagle owls brought to life as glowing holograms within sculptural birdhouses.

The piece at Leeds City Museum sees three magnificent European eagle owls brought to life as glowing holograms within sculptural birdhouses.

Action from the 2025 edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Credit: ASO & Pauline Ballet.

A vivid woodcut illustration depicts a famous scene when the soothsayer was reputedly confronted by nobles sent to her cottage by the powerful Cardinal Wolsey, who was furious she had made the treasonous prediction that he would never set foot inside the city of York. Under threat of being burned at the stake, a defiant Mother Shipton was said to have plucked a handkerchief from her head and thrown it into the fire, proclaiming that if it did not burn, then neither would she.

Other texts to be found in the library’s collection include a copy of The Discoverie of Witches, first published in 1584, which attempted to debunk popular and scholarly beliefs about witchcraft, magic and other superstitions with rational explanations. Also included is a copy of Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft published in 1830, which covers a range of histories and beliefs on spirits, demonology and witchcraft from a variety of sources.

Librarian Sally Hughes with a vivid woodcut illustration that depicts a famous scene when the soothsayer Mother Shipton was reputedly confronted by nobles sent to her cottage by the powerful Cardinal Wolsey, who was furious she had made the treasonous prediction that he would never set foot inside the city of York. Under threat of being burned at the stake, a defiant Mother Shipton was said to have plucked a handkerchief from her head and thrown it into the fire, proclaiming that if it did not burn, then neither would she.