Visual Arts

The iconic Number 36 Bus, which runs through Harewood village on its journey between Leeds and Harrogate is one of Yorkshire's oldest bus routes. This summer the route will have its own artist in residence: photographer, video and performance artist
Simon Warner.  

The concept of ‘artist in residence’ has its roots in Leeds University’s pioneering Gregory Fellowships during the 1950s. Simon Warner's residency is itself a groundbreaking one - part of a collaboration between Harewood House Trust and PSL (Project Space Leeds) in Leeds city centre - he will be, as far as the organisers are aware, the first ever artist in residence on a bus.

Simon Warner is a West Yorkshire-based artist working mainly with photography and video, together with performance and installations. He is also a self-employed landscape and theatrical photographic artist, as well as teaching in further education.

Diane Howse, Trustee of Harewood House Trust and Co-Director at PSL, says: "In the exhibitions we're staging at both Harewood and PSL we're exploring the relationship between Town and Country, and the Number 36 project literally links the two."

"This bus goes every twenty minutes, throughout the year, taking passengers from the city into the country and back again. We all look forward to seeing how Simon develops work in this very unusual context. Passengers will see him along the way and may even feature in the finished work!"