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Photos from Assembly House's post 18/05/2026

Install has started for The Sun and Us by Ruby Jean Waterhouse!☀️

Thursday 21st May 6pm -10pm
Opening Ceremony 7pm - 8pm

Friday 22nd May 2pm - 8pm
Saturday 23rd May 11am - 6pm

Sunday 24th May 11am - 5pm
Closing Ceremony

Expanding her exploration of drawing as a time-based act informed by her surroundings, Ruby presents a site-specific installation of suspended silk sculptures, harnessing the power of sunlight to generate patterns and forms that act as records of time, space, and our interaction with our environment.

Using a cyanotype technique to transform these sculptural forms into receptive surfaces, Waterhouse employs the sun as her collaborator as its movements and rhythms create marks and forms across them. Generating a space imbued with physical traces of the past and a sense of the mystical powers of nature, she plays with the simultaneous existence of stillness and motion—the hanging forms both stationary and gently fluttering, the sun’s drawings both chronicled and quietly ongoing.

Over the course of the show, a selection of these sculptures will undergo a process of live exposure, beginning with their submersion in cyanotype solution on the opening day, and ending with their ritualistic rinsing on the closing day, stopping the development process. As those in the space interact with the works, traces of them will become imprinted on their forms, expanding the collaboration to one of incidental participation.

Visitors to the space are invited to experience and consider the often unnoticed presence of the sun in our everyday lives, its power, and our relationship with this celestial body.

Get the date in your diary and we’ll see you there!

Poster by Martha Burgin
Description by Liliana Muñoz Flannery .lianaaaa_____

for more info head to our website through the link in our bio or www.assemblyhouse.art in your browser 🔗

12/05/2026

Human Furniture with Kylie Darling

We are excited to announce we will be closing Voyeurs 2026 by collabing with See you Naked Mondays at Left Bank on Monday 18th May.
It'll be a perfect way to unwind from the weekend events with an evening of life drawing.

Kylie Darling and their partner will be exploring forniphilia which is a form of 🐝DSM where a person is used as household furniture.
From foot stool to table - watch and draw Kylie and their partner as they work through different poses.

🎟️ Ticket link is in bio and is booked directly through See You Naked Mondays 🎟️

29/04/2026

We’re building a community garden! 🌱

That’s right - it’s not just been the new studio build over the last year… we’ve been tackling the pit for even longer! As some of you might have seen before, or even come down to help volunteer, the pit is our outdoor space that you can see from the windows in the exhibition space.

With funding from Kew Gardens, and plenty of effort from our staff and volunteers, we’ve been working hard to create a community garden that will provide green space, gardening workshops and a welcoming community for the people of Armley and artists alike.

In this video we take care of an old roof structure that needed removing, along with another skip worth of rubbish and dirt.

Huge thank you to everyone who has given their time and efforts to make projects like these possible - we love you all and can’t wait to share the fruits of our labour with you soon ❤️

See you next week!

28/04/2026

THIS SATURDAY! Open at 10am on the 2nd of May, we invite you to bring your pre-loved treasures to trade for tickets which can be exchanged for other donated items inside.
And don’t worry if you’ve got nothing to bring, you can still come down and buy some tickets on the door!

we hope to see all of you leaving Ass Haus with some new threads and smile on your face 🧦🧡

Assembly House
44-46 Canal Road, Armley
Leeds

Things we’ll accept:
Clothes, plants, shoes, trinkets, small furniture items (e.g. lamp, side tables)

Things we won’t accept:
Large items of furniture, beds, mattresses, broken items, dirty clothes, underwear, faulty electronics

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