Tag: Leicestershire

  • Community Spirit Project Launch

    Community Spirit Project Launch

    Calling all covid-related volunteers! Have you volunteered to help others during the pandemic in Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland? You’ve done amazing work over the last two years, supporting communities throughout the pandemic.  I am collecting stories and making an artwork to celebrate the incredible work of local people during the pandemic. The stories will become…

  • Chair of Leicester Society of Artists

    Chair of Leicester Society of Artists

    Over the last couple of years I have been working as a consultant for Creative Leicestershire, researching the future of the role of Made in Leicestershire, a network of local artists. Since this work has now finished, I have decided to try and take some of my recommendations forward through working in partnership with another…

  • Made in Leicestershire consultancy

    Made in Leicestershire consultancy

    Earlier this month Creative Leicestershire was awarded a grant from Arts Council England to enable us (me) to do more on my Made in Leicestershire development project. I’ve been working on research and consultation for Made in Leicetershire for about 18 months and this grant has allowed us to extend until the end of September…

  • Libraries Live Artist Residency

    Libraries Live Artist Residency

    I’m almost at the end of my two-month library artist residency. For the last few weeks I’ve been in the village library / community hub of Newbold Verdon in rural West Leicestershire. I’ve been talking to volunteers, running workshops for over 50s and getting a feel for why so many people volunteer and why they…

  • Tacit exhibition

    Tacit exhibition

    Tacit – Made in Leicestershire contemporary craft exhibition at LCB Depot 17th-29th September. My first co-curated contemporary craft exhibition is now open! On Friday I installed Tacit – Made in Leicestershire exhibition at LCB Depot in Leicester. I am working for Creative Leicestershire as a consultant on the Made in Leicestershire brand development and putting…

  • Themed school workshops

    Themed school workshops

    I love collaboration; I find it exciting and engaging both creatively and practically. Sharing skills, knowledge and expertise is vital to creating a good outcome and I always find it pushes my own creative boundaries and helps me work better and learn all the time. Whether it is working with schools, community groups or other makers, I…

  • Travelling Tool Shed

    Travelling Tool Shed

    Today would have been my Grandad’s 98th birthday. My work, Tool Shed, inspired by his collection of tools, is heading off for a new exhibition later this month. What’s in Your Shed opens at Snibston, Coalville, Leicestershire 26th July – 26th September 2014 curated and conceived by Transform, an arts project working to create artistic interventions…