A completely unique experience, the Art Hostel offers the opportunity to sleep inside the creative imagination of artists, in the heart of Leeds. With no two rooms the same, guests have a catalogue of artistic installations to choose from. As a social enterprise for East Street Arts, the Art Hostel helps build financial sustainability for the charity. A creative, comfortable, vibrant and fun place to stay, the Art Hostel is the perfect place to explore the very best of Leeds. Leeds-based artist Emma Bentley-Fox has designed this room to create a warm, nostalgic and hopeful space. Wanting to avoid using clichés around heteronormative romantic narratives, she is interested in representing co-dependency, independence, platonic love, and queer relationships, with nods and allusions to queer culture and tokens of ‘broken’ relationships, that our visitors might recognise and see themselves reflected in. Her use of second hand items and personal and found artefacts asks the question ‘what can objects tell us about their owners?’. Emma’s practice spans from visual art and photography, to organiser, producer and Party Mom with Party Mom Society, a Leeds-based arts collective celebrating trashy moms, dancing queens and queers everywhere. She enjoys working with kitsch objects and pop culture imagery, exploring ideas of taste, nostalgia, sexuality, gender, femininity, performative identities and care. She likes her work to be imbued with humour, playfulness and a deep respect for the references she’s drawing from.