Dwindling (GP at Lax, Leeds)

Nathan Baxter, Andrew Bracey, Rob Britt, Joana Cifre Cerda, Karolina Dworska, Andia Coral Newton, Nick Simpson, Oliver Ventress, Madara Vimba, Andy Rhys Williams, Lauren Winter

Dwindling brings together eleven artists living and working in Lincoln and London whose works take their starting point from regional games from where they grew up.

Once, games belonged to places. In Dwindling, those places stretch from Yorkshire, Norfolk and Devon to Mallorca, Latvia, Poland and Austria. The exhibition begins with games remembered, misremembered, inherited, witnessed or imagined. Some still survive; most have dwindled into fragments: a rule recalled differently, a gesture repeated with little certainty, a passed-on story of how something used to be played. Games were often shaped by particular regional conditions: the ground beneath them, the materials at hand, the people who played them and the rules they carried between generations. Learned through watching and repeating rather than formal instruction, they were passed between bodies rather than written down. Many have since altered, disappeared or survive only in partial memory.

Across painting, sculpture, installation, film and participation, the artists in this exhibition explore what remains when forms of play begin to fade. Some works revisit existing games and traditions. Others speculate, reconstruct or invent, following traces left behind in stories, objects, gestures and local histories. Rather than presenting games as fixed traditions, Dwindling attends to their instability, how rules shift, memories conflict and play persists through reinvention.

At a moment when leisure is increasingly mediated through screens and standardised systems, the exhibition looks to forms of play that depend on physical immediacy, negotiation, chance and collective experience. What dwindles is not only the game itself, but the social worlds that gather around it. Yet play has a habit of returning. Through repetition, disagreement, adaptation and invention, games continue to generate new meanings, new encounters and new ways of being together. Dwindling is an invitation to follow these traces and to play again.

Public View: Friday 24 July 6-9pm

Exhibition Open: 25 July to 8 AugustFridays and Saturdays, 12-4pm

LAX, Fiik Studios, 28 Cross Stamford Street, Leeds, LS7 1BA (Entrance behind Billions Lounge)

Open to all.Open Fridays and Saturdays, 12-4pm, or at other times by appointment.Please contact: lax.leeds@gmail.com.

Wicked Money Await

LAX at General Practice

19 June – 11 July 2026

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Wicked Money Await is a group show of LAX members exploring the potential of artist-led activity to challenge traditional structures of art production.

At a time when our membership is split more or less equally between Leeds and London, it seems like an opportune time to examine problematic notions of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ in a visual arts context, and to celebrate collectives, studios and artist-led spaces as de-centring sites of exchange. The artists in Wicked Money Await carry with them their layered histories and experiences, their interests and expertise, and they excavate and map these through their rich and varied practices. Where people and practices meet, they affect change in one another. To acknowledge ourselves as nodes in translocal networks is to return agency to the artist, outside of the systems and markets that sometimes seem to contain them.

This exhibition marks the first time LAX has shown work as a collective, in a place not quite halfway between Leeds and London. In combination with General Practice’s track record of promoting exchange with other artist-led initiatives, this seems like a perfect opportunity to acknowledge the mutually constitutive nature of our relationships and our work. In a very real sense, we make each other.

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Opening night: Friday 19 June, 5–8pm

Open: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–4pm, and by appointment (DM @generalpractice)

Where: General Practice, 25 Clasketgate, Lincoln, LN2 1JJ

Please note General Practice is on the top floor and is only accessible by stairs.

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APOLUNE

Apolune  —   Returning to home base, join us on Thursday 21 May from 5pm for an evening of contemporary art, drinks, conversation and the chance to celebrate the warmer days together.

Apolune — the point in an orbit farthest from the moon becomes both title and provocation for this group exhibition by members of General Practice. Rooted in ideas of distance, trajectory and return, the exhibition offers a poetic starting point for reflection, experimentation and reorientation.

Following our recent exhibition in London with MEZZANINE @mezzanine_studios, General Practice now brings the show home to Lincoln for a special presentation at our studio space.

The exhibition brings together a range of contemporary and experimental practices including animation, projection, painting, sculpture and mixed media.

Featuring work by Lauren Winter, Nicholas Simpson, Nathan Baxter, Madara Vimba, Andrew Bracey, Rob Britt, Joana Cifre Cerdà and Oliver Ventress, the exhibition reflects a year of shared experimentation, dialogue and exchange within the group.

General Practice Studios

Top Floor, 25 Clasketgate

Lincoln

LN2 1JJ

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