The new Health and Safety regulations put in place this year at Leeds Arts University have affected the Fine Art students in what they can and cannot exhibit or bring into the University to sculpt or create with, and will continue to effect them if we do not act. By having these new extreme measures on heavily controlling the environment of learning and growing artists is to control their freedom to exhibit what works they want or to create how they want, limiting their creative process through controlling selection of materials. From being one of the most renowned Art Universities in the UK, you would expect an institution of this standard to provide the essential tools to create professional bodies of work and the steps to become the artists we aspire to be. While we understand that Health and safety needs to be put in place at Universities to ensure safety of both students and staff, the new regulations that have been put in place have restricted peoples work, and their abilities to exhibit. that it restricts the students to a point of not being able to practice their work; that no other Universities have undergone and/or restricted their students by doing so. The lack of prevenative measures is also causing more confusion over the freedom of LAU's art students works; we do'nt get told what is/isn't allowed until we try to exhibit/sculpt with what isn't. Sign this petition to make our health and safety measures reasonable and not to hinder the learning and development of its Fine Art students.
