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About the Friends
The Friends of University Art and Music (Leeds) was founded in 1989 to promote and support art and music at the University of Leeds. Our membership includes a wide range of people, drawn from the University and the wider community it serves in Leeds and West Yorkshire. From informal beginnings as a group of staff members and friends with an interest in helping to foster the University’s musical and artistic life and outreach, FUAM has grown into an active and lively organisation, with a regular programme of events.
FUAM’s primary purpose is to raise funds to enrich the cultural life of the University and the City of Leeds through support for the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery and the University of Leeds International Concert Series by way of subscriptions and donations.
Patron: Murray Perahia KBE
President: The Rt Hon Lord Bragg
Honorary Vice-Presidents: Professor Sir Michael Arthur, Dame Jane Francis, Sir Alan Langlands, Professor Shearer West
Founding President: the late Mrs Audrey Burton OBE
News
Alice Boot wins FUAM Graduate Art Prize
And the winner is ... The judges have chosen, and the winner of the Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize 2025 is Alice Boot (BA Fine Art). Boot's practice investigates the complex mysteries of fibre through the deconstructing and reconstructing of burlap. The artist is very interested in the laboriousness of this process...
Newsletter - September 2025
ART NEWS FUAM GRADUATE ART PRIZE - Prize giving date announced Date: 14 October 2025, 17:00 – 19:00 Location: The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery Admission Free. Book in advance online here Programme for the evening: As places are limited please book in advance 5 – 5.30pm: Drinks in Parkinson Court outside The Stanley &...
Could you be our new treasurer?
Calling all FUAM members! From Martin Staniforth. Once again I am making a plea for members to come forward to help run FUAM. We badly need a new Treasurer as David Salinger has been doing the job on an acting basis for far too long. We will also need a new Chair to take over...