Attenborough Art Centre in Leicester asked me to photograph some of their courses, for the new courses brochure. So I spent a lovely week dipping into what was going on, then editing, and chatting, in their café.
These are some of the photos from the painting, drawing and silver jewellery courses.
I saw Matt Smith’s piece “Splintered” which he created with Meg Ullah. It impressed me with it’s simplicity and power. It’s mixture of the personal and impersonal and tempting failure. So I knew he would be a good subject for PoPA.
I returned a couple of days later. It had all disappeared, but you could tell where the flour had been, as there were patches, covered in snail trails.
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Attenborough Arts, part of The University of Leicester, has a new gallery, and I was lucky enough to be asked to photograph the opening.
The late Richard Attenborough was the founding patron, who handed the patronage to his son Michael. Richard’s brother, Sir David Attenborough formally opened the new gallery.
In the Summer, there was an Art Trail, organised for Artists Access to Art Colleges and De Montfort University curated by Leila Houston & Leanne Franks.
There were three galleries: the newly opened WTS Gallery, LCB Depot and The Great Central.
The range of work shown included contemporary painting and drawing, ceramics, video, textiles, photography, projection, sound, sculpture and installation.
Here’s a small selection of the pictures I took on the opening day.
