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Artist Miriam Handid has been crafting her Phoenix Jug piece in her Suffolk workshop after being inspired by the birds of Temple Newsam, in particular an 18th century side table designed by John Vardy and the Chinese Drawing Room wallpaper featuring birds cut from John James Audubon’s book The Birds of America. Credit Leeds Museums and Galleries Nick Singleton.

Artist Miriam Handid has been crafting her Phoenix Jug piece in her Suffolk workshop after being inspired by the birds of Temple Newsam, in particular an 18th century side table designed by John Vardy and the Chinese Drawing Room wallpaper featuring birds cut from John James Audubon’s book The Birds of America. Credit Leeds Museums and Galleries Nick Singleton.

Artist Miriam Handid has been crafting her Phoenix Jug piece in her Suffolk workshop after being inspired by the birds of Temple Newsam, in particular an 18th century side table designed by John Vardy and the Chinese Drawing Room wallpaper featuring birds cut from John James Audubon’s book The Birds of America. Credit Leeds Museums and Galleries Nick Singleton.

Artist Miriam Handid has been crafting her Phoenix Jug piece in her Suffolk workshop after being inspired by the birds of Temple Newsam, in particular an 18th century side table designed by John Vardy and the Chinese Drawing Room wallpaper featuring birds cut from John James Audubon’s book The Birds of America. Credit Leeds Museums and Galleries Nick Singleton.

Artist Miriam Handid has been crafting her Phoenix Jug piece in her Suffolk workshop after being inspired by the birds of Temple Newsam, in particular an 18th century side table designed by John Vardy and the Chinese Drawing Room wallpaper featuring birds cut from John James Audubon’s book The Birds of America. Credit Leeds Museums and Galleries Nick Singleton.

Artist Miriam Handid has been crafting her Phoenix Jug piece in her Suffolk workshop after being inspired by the birds of Temple Newsam, in particular an 18th century side table designed by John Vardy and the Chinese Drawing Room wallpaper featuring birds cut from John James Audubon’s book The Birds of America. Credit Leeds Museums and Galleries Nick Singleton.

Yusuke Yamamoto’s piece, Dappled Swag: Temple Newsam, made at his base in North Wales, has been influenced by plants found around the estate which also feature prominently in the 500 year-old house’s décor. His remarkable artwork includes English oak, platanus, horse-chestnut, cherry plum, weeping willow, pine, thistle, hollyhock, and roses. Credit Leeds Museums and Galleries and Nick Singleton.

Yusuke Yamamoto’s piece, Dappled Swag: Temple Newsam, made at his base in North Wales, has been influenced by plants found around the estate which also feature prominently in the 500 year-old house’s décor. His remarkable artwork includes English oak, platanus, horse-chestnut, cherry plum, weeping willow, pine, thistle, hollyhock, and roses. Credit Leeds Museums and Galleries and Nick Singleton.

Yusuke Yamamoto’s piece, Dappled Swag: Temple Newsam, made at his base in North Wales, has been influenced by plants found around the estate which also feature prominently in the 500 year-old house’s décor. His remarkable artwork includes English oak, platanus, horse-chestnut, cherry plum, weeping willow, pine, thistle, hollyhock, and roses. Credit Leeds Museums and Galleries and Nick Singleton.

Yusuke Yamamoto’s piece, Dappled Swag: Temple Newsam, made at his base in North Wales, has been influenced by plants found around the estate which also feature prominently in the 500 year-old house’s décor. His remarkable artwork includes English oak, platanus, horse-chestnut, cherry plum, weeping willow, pine, thistle, hollyhock, and roses. Credit Leeds Museums and Galleries and Nick Singleton.

Demolition work taking place at the former Kingsdale Court flats complex in Seacroft, Leeds, in late 2025.

A computer-generated image - looking north at the junction of Boggart Hill Gardens and Boggart Hill Road - showing how part of the housing development proposed for the former Kingsdale Court site in Seacroft, Leeds, could shape up.