Hellfire Potters Club :: Previous Exhibitions

Showing from the 4th of December at Leeds Design Innovation Centre, the obsessively - minded art of Leeds newest art collective ‘The Hellfire Potters’ club.’

Featuring drawing, pottery, photography and sculpture, in styles favouring hallucinatory detail, replication and pattern, Michael Duffey, Andrzej Skotny, Drew Caines and Sophie Flynn, all share a common, yet diverse obsessive trait in their approach to art.

Drew Caines' pottery, encrusted with his hallmark miniaturised limpet-like psychedelic ‘turbans’, features a range of imaginative subjects exotic or otherwise, from teapots and vases encrusted with images of the virgin Mary to tiny ceramic robots and swirling landscape vases.

A true outsider artist, Michael Duffey, whose drawings are entirely fashioned with the hypnotic graphic device of black mushroom gills, employs an organic, almost phobic line where mushrooms balloon, mutate or insinuate themselves into unexpected forms.

Andrzej Skotny's stylised sculptural heads and 'life circles', depicting variations on a range of emotions/psychological states, are normally secreted in outdoor rural settings or unexpected spaces in the urban environment. Andy leaves his sculptures to interact with the elements, or, in an anti-commercial gesture, to be discovered by passers-by.

Sophie Flynn’s recent drawing has featured a series of large detailed umbrella studies. Appearing to float like satellites in the stratosphere, these are drawn like a cartographer minutely recording the rhythms, turns and changing light of a landscape from below.

Expect the unexpected,
and if not,
the downright strange!

Free entry and wheelchair access