Archive
2012
3rd - 23rd January 2012 :: The Attic Presents
24th - 30th January 2012 :: Variations Through This
This exhibition is the first for 3 lens and 1 conceptual based artist. Their combined work deals with a variety of technologies and their cultural application. Expect to see digital ink jet prints, projections, video, and some interesting installations . . .
2011
12th - 22nd December 2011 :: Pedestrian Presents ... 12 Days of Christmas
After the scary dark evening of spooky Halloween and the beautiful lights of Bonfire night why not get Pedestrian's Christmas festivities in your diaries.
This year we have lot's of things going on as part of Pedestrian Presents ... 12 Days of Christmas.
We have our first Open Submission where in our new gallery space at the LCB Depot a variety of different art works will be exhibited. The work can be viewed 12th-22nd December with a Private View on Monday 12th December. Learn more about the exhbition and private view here.
We also have opportunities to get involved in many a creative, fun and festive activities during Pedestrian Presents ... 12 Days of Christmas including exclusive workshops. For more information about what is on contact one of the team at Pedestrian here
9th - 10th December :: 'All We Want For Christmas'
With the success of last years Pedestrian's Christmas Arts and Craft Fair we are pleased to announce Pedestrian Presents ... All we want for Christmas. It will be our first major event in our new space - the front space at the LCB Depot. Over Friday 9th December and Saturday 10th December we will be bringing together local artists and makers to showcase and sell their beautiful products with lots of festivities. Expect mulled wine, mince pies and Christmas music.
For any more information do contact Event Coordinator Jo Lees at jo@pedestrian.info.
29th November - 7th December :: 'Trove'
Trove is the second event by recently established East midlands based art and design group Traverse Creatives. The event will take the form of a unique pop-up store which will showcase a distinctive range of art and design work. Central to the concept of Trove is that it shall provide the public with the opportunity to purchase affordable yet distinctive pieces of emerging and studying artists and designers’ work.
All pieces display skill and quality found in handcrafted and designed works, in a novel and insightful way. Semi-established artists/designers/craftspeople have produced a spectrum of works specifically for Trove, ranging from ornamental pieces, functional décor, greetings cards and original prints and imagery. In addition this is an ideal opportunity to purchase gifts for loved ones during the festive season.
All are welcome to attend the opening night, which will take place on Friday 2nd December, 7-10pm. This will be an opportunity to browse and buy, enjoy a glass of wine and meet the featured artists and designers.
This event is kindly supported by Loughborough University.
More info: www.traversecreatives.com
22nd - 28th November :: 'Exploring Views of Young Parenthood'
An exhibition supporting the work of the Teenage Pregnancy Partnership, offering pregnant teenagers and parents under 20 the opportunity to overcome barriers to positive progression in life. Art work will include work produced by people who became parents under the age of 20, as well as work produced by a range of partner agencies supporting the cohort to evidence the creative and positive work they do.
The exhibition will be made up of a number of framed photographs and more traditional framed artwork, together with objects made by young people and an audio loop and short film.
There will be a strong focus on showcasing creative work but also on raising aspirations for young parents and parents-to-be and helping them to see the creative arts as a possible career path.
8th - 14th November :: 'Icons'
'Icons' is an exploration of our connection to the celebrity, people that we often feel some kind of connection to and yet cannot know. It explores the hidden faces of our heroes, the real emotion that lies within. The 'Iconic' images contained in this exhibition range from Music, to Tv, to Film. The work featured uses differing shapes, textures and blocks of colour combined to represent the features of well known societal figures.
Adam Pick is a visual artist from Leicester working predominately in digital media but also in sand and glass, and more recently, photography. This is his first exhibition in his home town. He currently has work ready to be displayed at Sheffield United in late November, as part of an event to raise money for Breakthrough Arts Charity. Adam is a former mental Hhalth service user, recently self employed, who is now beginning to break into mainstream art.
25th October - 13th November :: 'Our Voices'
A collaborative exhibition that aims to raise questions around the notion of student voice. ‘Our voices’ is a platform to initiate conversation around positive and negative experiences with student voice. Through this exhibition we can celebrate some beautiful art work from young people in Leicester whilst acknowledging their need to be heard.
The work and exhibition has been organised, created and managed by Young People. Jo Lees has Lead on the project and worked with other Pedestrian Members on the October Workshops including Tim Smith and Sophie Lewis.
11th - 24th October :: 'Urban Acrylic'
"I see my work as a link between street art and graffiti. Graffiti is produced on the spot with the traditional tool of a spray can illustrating the artists logo or tags. Street art is generally constructed from stickers, stencils or posters usually consisting of imagery people can relate to easily without having to decipher the artists message, the viewer has an immediate reaction with it."
Graffiti, street art, has it become the norm?
People are securing and saving walls with “art” on. Twenty years ago this would have probably been cleaned off. Who decides what to keep? By what defining factors? Where it’s placed? What is the subject matter? Who is it by?
Society has evolved.We see graffiti in every city centre, the urban landscape has become awash with visually stimulating imagery - advertising, billboards, logos, shops, taxis, buses. It has become harder and harder for the graffiti artist to stand out. Just as graffiti & street art have evolved, materials and how the artist uses them has become ever more elaborate. Acrylic has become widely used since the late 1950’s for all manner of products, industrial and in the home.
"I wanted to use this material to bring the worlds of commercialism, consumerism, art and street culture closer together, mass producing a strong graphical shape, referencing traditional graffiti techniques & styles with the urban paint drips.As with all street art, it is created to be noticed - choosing vibrant colours to mimic those often used with spray paint - I carefully selected the most visually aesthetically pleasing combinations. Would using this material be more accepted? Accepted by society? Accepted by graffiti artists? In a gallery environment they stand out, naked and pure, whilst on the street they may never be noticed. I love the contrast each piece has with the next, and the hundreds of different colour combinations that could be achieved."
Ian Kirkpatrick
4th - 10th October :: 'Urban Canvas'
Urban Canvas are modern mural painters and professional graffiti artists based in Nottingham. Urban Canvas are a public art collective led by Peter Barber and Anthony Donnelly. They design and deliver a broad range of creative projects across the UK.
This exhibition is a small selection of canvas' produced for show and sale.
www.urbancanvas.co.uk
14th September - 2nd October :: 'A Little Sentence'
Tattoos on paper: words & art from young offenders.
Tattoos contain some of the most powerful statements that people make - blending words, image and identity.
In summer 2011, young offenders in HMYOI Glen Parva used the stylings of tattoos to design images and poetic statements.
Through a combination of writing and art workshops, participants pinned their feelings down on paper, to be seen and appreciated by the wider community in Leicester. They pay tribute to the people they care about most, describing their dreams and some nightmares too. They are touching, funny, ambiguous and surpisingly vulnerable.
The project was in partnership between arthur+martha CIC, Rideout and the Education Department of Milton Keynes College. arthur+martha work with people whose voices might not be heard – homeless people, school pupils in danger of exclusion, older people in healthcare, holocaust survivors and other marginalized groups. Rideout the commissioners of this project have facilitated creative work in prisons for over a decade.
Creativity can have positive effects on well-being, sociability and an individual’s sense of belonging to society.
"GROW ROSES or you are wasting time & time is the one thing you never get back." (Participant, HMYOI Glen Parva 2011)
18th July - 2nd Sept :: 'I will talk with anyone who will talk with me'
As part of the summer project; ‘I will talk with anyone who will talk with me’, will host an exhibition, performances and a series of conversations in the new Pedestrian Arts Gallery at LCB Depot.
The project looks at the nature of conversations, the creativity that can come from the gaps, stutters or breakdowns in speaking and the spontaneous production of new ideas that can occur when people meet for conversation and collaboration.
For ‘I will talk with anyone who will talk with me’ Graham Hudson is creating a new installation work and a space for conversation and events. Hudson creates installations that act as spaces for activity. For a gallery in Austin, Texas, Hudson created a space that was used as a rehearsal space by local bands and in Milton Keynes Gallery Hudson created a space to host young peoples workshops.
Other works in the exhibition include David Blandy’s ‘Duels and Dualities, Battle of the Soul’, an arcade game based on Street Fighter II where all the characters have been replaced by Blandy’s own. Two early film works by Blandy are also being shown, ‘What is Soul’ and ‘Emotional Content’.
Rebecca Birch has re-cut a film originally shot in 2007 of a meeting with Canadian artist Robert Sinclair in a cafe on the top of Sulphur Mountain, Alberta. Over a cup of orange pekoe tea they discussed making drawings of the mountain, and the benefits of concertina-folding notebooks.
In 2010 Rebecca Birch described her conversation with Robert Sinclair at a talk at Five Years Gallery, London. The video exhibited in the show is a conflation of both of these occurrences and the third version of the conversation with Robert Sinclair.
Imogen Stidworthy’s film 'Barrabackslarrabang' was shot in two Liverpool pubs (The Vines and The Lion Tavern) - locations strongly associated with informal chat and the birth of the railway, respectively - with speakers of a local underground slang, Backslang.
The film draws upon the history of adaptation in language and pronunciation with berth of the railways, consumer capitalism and Standard Pronunciation on one hand and the secretive Backslang designed to protect risky speech from being overheard on the other.
8th July - 14th July :: Network Nature Express
7th July– 14th July :: English mARTyrs
English Martyrs Art Department presents work from every key stage in the school, from year seven through to year thirteen. Our annual exhibition is a celebration of all the talent in our school which when combined with hard work, commitment and perseverance produces the wonderful work you see before you. We are very proud of our students and their efforts and we hope you enjoy our exhibition.
21st -5th July :: A Sense of Loss.... and others
A Sense of Loss tells an intimate story of how a former negative self has been changed to a positive frame of mind, free from the shackles of the past.
Also on show are a selection of images from a new project recently started titled Personal Space. As well, a selection images from his newly published book, “In My Time...a 30 year retrospective document of Street Photography” will be on show.
The exhibition is the work of photographer Christopher Ford, currently having just completed his first year of p/t study on the MA Photography degree program at De Montfort University. The work is a personal story, which examines his memories forged out of a tempestuous relationship with his father.
“The photographic process can be an evocative medium in relationship to therapeutic healing. As I think back over the living years with my father, I struggle to remember more than a handful of positive memories.” 
UK born Christopher grew up Eastern Canada and has been involved in professional photography since 1975. First published in 1984 in The Best of Photography Annual, his work has been on show since. He has been involved in photographic education since 1981 and is currently principle photography lecturer at Oxford & Cherwell Valley College, Oxford.
23rd June - 6th July :: Zanzibar Above and Below the Surface
This exhibition captures both the colourful and strange world of the vibrant reefs and also the beauty of the beaches, villages and the amazing people Ross is proud to call his friends.
Ross has just finished his first year in a two-year Foundation Degree course in Photography & Video at Leicester.
Previous to coming back to Leicester to study he lived and worked in Zanzibar. It was in Zanzibar where he fell in love with photography. Firstly he became a very keen underwater-photographer but only had a very basic camera and so when he returned to the UK for a month he brought a DSLR camera and went back to Zanzibar to capture the sheer beauty of the island.
One particular photographer 'Javed Jafferji' who was just about the only professional photographer from Zanzibar inspired and filled Ross’s head with all sorts of inspiration.
“I hope though my lens I have captured some of that beauty that Zanzibar holds!”
27th June – 1st July :: ‘Fabric Minimalism’ and ‘The Emotive Grid’
‘Fabric Minimalism’ and ‘The Emotive Grid’ is the first solo exhibition of work by Elliot Juby. This exhibition is an opportunity to see work that Elliot has produced over the last two years whilst in the middle of studying part-time towards a BA in Fine Art.
“Throughout these two years my work has become not only about the final pieces but also the making process – the repetitiveness of making cubes out of MDF, of cutting out squares & triangles of fabric, of making pom-poms and then bringing them all together in an ordered fashion.
I have been inspired by the same artistic principles used by the De Stijl movement and neoplasticism philosophy – simplifying visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, straight lines, squares and rectangles, using only primary colours along with black and white.
I realized that my work had become a lot about order and using grids in the way it was made and displayed. Grids are usually viewed as being removed from emotion so I set out to produce work in a grid-like form with emotional references in it.”
22nd June :: CUSPeditions
CUSP is pleased to announce a new project: CUSPeditions, featuring work by 20 artists in editions of 25 signed and numbered A3 prints. The prints will be exhibited for one night only, after which they will be available to buy from cuspblog.blogspot.com
Editions are priced at £10 each with all proceeds going towards a new artist-led gallery and studios in Leicester.
6th – 20th June :: Decent Exposure
Decent Exposure’ is the end of course show for the 18 students graduating from the Foundation Degree in Photography and Video at Leicester College.
Throughout this two-year Higher Education course, which is validated by De Montfort University, the students have undertaken professional and academic training in many areas of still and moving image production and this exhibition is the culmination of three months self-directed study at the end of this course.
The show is a real opportunity for the students to express their own interests and creativity. On show is thought-provoking work of various styles, techniques, concepts & thematic concerns.
17th May - 3rd June :: Riverside's Art
The Curatorial Perspective
This body of work demonstrates the range of media and themes that Riverside School offer their art students. The students have applied both traditional and contemporary skills and techniques in their work. Offering portraits created through digital composition, using imagery from their own backgrounds and experiences; paintings that pull together shape and colour; movements of colour and line in paint drawings on acrylic and still-life of various styles.
In curating this exhibition we have attempted to group the work in the themes above and created contexts for the work to fit into. The living room setting playing host to still-life helping to reflect a time and place in which this type of work feels at home. The coloured squares on the walls help to define the transparency of the acrylic shapes and bring them together as a set of works that link to each other by colour. The darkened space is used to transport the audience to a contemplative space in which to reflect on the lives that are presented to them in the photographic portraits. Grouped together the perspective and shape paintings have a stronger presence in the gallery setting.
The arrangement of the space tries to amplify the strengths in the work and highlight the range of skills and experiences the young people have gained in creating their art.
Curators: Sally Newham & Jodie Cresswell
17th May - 3rd June :: Hannah Bott Final Exhibition
Artist Statement
I am on a Creative Arts course at Pedestrian. This is some of the work I have produced over the past year. I have used a variety of materials to experiment with and have made final pieces of canvas with acrylic (Traffic Lights), Ink and food colouring drawings (My Bloody Lips) as well as modrock, and chicken wire to acrylic paint (Loud ‘N’ Bright). I have also directed and featured in a photoshoot.
I like to work with bright colours, text and pictures. I started creating 2D pieces and then developed onto 3D work.
Traffic Lights
This painting was inspired by the way that colours on the traffic lights are placed and how they function and what they mean on the street. I wanted to put portraits onto them because I am interested in the bright colours and wanted to create my face in a pop art style.
Loud ‘N’ Bright
I have an obsession with lips because I am fascinated with their shapes and want to make something bold that shows how lips can give away emotions. I added a lamp to make it form |’Loud N Bright ‘.
My Bloody Lips
After creating Loud ‘N’ Bright I sat sketching with food colouring and Ink and just created this piece which I love because it just happened naturally and it shows how I can make ‘darker’ work like Tim Burton’s illustrations.
Bag of Love
I was studying the well-known story Romeo and Juliet and through using felt materials I managed to form my opinions into a bag piece. I also looked closely at music and the old and new Stories of Romeo and Juliet. I think my bag represents the traditional story.
Whisk Away
I was looking at the Artist Cindy Sherman and I liked how she creates
new characters in her photography work. I decided that I wanted to be a fairy in my photos because when I was young my Dad always said that my sister was with the fairies. I wanted to play out this fairy character in the city centre to create interesting pictures as well as remembering my sister. I have put my images and handmade props into a corner to make people think that the space, which was a white room before, is now something else.
I would like you to use your imagination on what my exhibition is about.
10th -12th May :: ExCHANge
ExCHANge is an exhibition of large scale paintings by Ana Pareja and Sara Vazquez, that represent urban living. The work consists of paintings that depict abstract beauty,geometric placement and classic expressionism which creates a dynamic interplay between the work.
10th – 16th May :: Univeristy of Leicester Photography Society
University of Leicester photographers offer you genuine creations: observations, captions and experiences from all over the world. The society welcomes you to enjoy a community of pictures from Leicester’s talented student collective; a diverse and personal contribution to the Cultural Quater.
6th - 8th May :: Collate
Collate is an exhibition by 2nd year Design Craft students studying at De Montfort University. The exhibition consists of a variety of contemporary pieces ranging from glass, textiles & ceramics to metal, wood & paper. It is an opportunity to see and purchase unique work by future designer makers.
Private view 6th May 7pm - 10pm
25th - 29th :: Keeping the Art of Braiding Alive
Keeping the Art of Braiding Alive is an exhibiton showcasing the art of braiding hair. The exhibition consists of images and practical demonstrations.
Cherub Braids is a braiding service based in Leicester dedicated to providing high quality braiding services, exclusively for children and young people.
Opening times
Mon 25th 1pm - 4pm :: LAUNCH Young People in Attendance - Practical Demonstration
Tues and Wed 9am - 5pm
Thurs 28th 9am - 9pm :: 7pm - 9pm Young People in Attendance - Practical Demonstration
Fri 29th 12pm - 4pm
23rd April :: Made In England
To celebrate St George’s Day the Cultural Quarter hosts a large festival each year, consisting of fairs, performance, workshops and music. This year it’s theme is “Princesses & Knights”, and we will be holding workshops for children in conjunction with our second arts and craft fair : Made In England. For information, please contact Jo Lees on jo@pedestrian.info
Notes: Our first arts and crafts fair was held at Christmas time, 2010.
14th - 20th April :: Horizon
A documentary collective featuring four diverse, contemporary photographers demonstrating their own individual styles and methods of recording their surroundings.
Featuring: James Marsh, Jason Osborne, James Macfarlane, Peter Watkins.
6th - 9th April :: Carlos A. Hebles & Susana Delgado
A collective exhibition featuring two different artists. A photographer who focus her study on reality, and a painter who studies human figure.
28th March - 2nd April :: Journey
This exhibition shows the final outcomes from a project that has involved young artists responding to a stimulus around the safety of young people.
Students from Rushey Mead School (Leicester) used Gus’ story from the YPSS (Young People Seeking Safety) website as a stimulus for drama to put themselves in Gus’ shoes.
They then used a digital SLR camera to create photographs to illustrate their thoughts and ideas. Using longexposures and drawing words with light - Light Graffiti. There are around 16 images in the collection.
24th - 29th March :: Repetition
Valerie Turnton and Dawn Healey-Dakin exhibit works that represent 'Repetition' in diverse forms.
Additional Saturday opening 10am until 3pm.
15th March - 21st March :: Diamond in The Rough
An exhibition by 5 students who pursue photography and painting outside their studies.
The title relates to their self-description as "unfound talent".
Unsure of where they might head with their work in the future, but embracing it at the moment. . .just for the love of it!
7th March - 14th March :: Sophia Braham
Sophia exhibited in our gallery in 2010, and is returning to showcase her work created in the second year of her degree at DMU. Presented by Sophia, a third year BA Fine Art student at De Montfort University.
The exhibition consists of paintings and photos focused on the aesthetic quality of portraits and landscapes, which have been stripped down to the bare outline of the location or person through highlights and shadows
21st -28th February :: Vanilla Galleries
‘Old Church Slavonic’ was the first literary Slavic language - a language no more. No more of a language than nothing at all; furthermore, nothing that can ever be spoken again.
Language is our great limitation – we are bound by it and we are no freer than our very definitions of the word freedom. Unfreedom is how we exist. Language is everything we must unlearn. Art offers a displacement of image and word that we must embrace. You must succumb to it.
17th -21st February :: Up Your Art
An exhibition from a collection of artists - Jim Duncan, Lewis Grant, Catherine Keen and Jasmin Page. All students from DeMontfort University, Leicester.
Jasmin: A portrait made from approximately 1500 hand cut and printed text squares, layered together to create the piece. Entitled "Conrad".
Jim: A coloured sculpture light piece incorporating light, print, and colour with geometric shapes. "Untitled".
Lewis: An urban renewal mixed media piece, entitled "Bananas".
Catherine: Layered sculptural and print piece made from acetate. "Untitled".
2nd -15th February :: SPITKLAPP
"What if a chair was a time bomb? What if a dining table doubled up as a king or queen’s throne? What if a coffee table was a social commentary?SPITKLAPP REPLACES THE ‘WHAT IF’ WITH ‘WHY NOT’.
If furniture was never invented, our muscles would be freed and our skeletons happier. The question is - how have we evolved since design? What can interiors teach us about our contradictory desires for comfort? Is the nine-to-five biological model not one of indirect self-harm?
Contra-evolutionary and progressively lazy, furniture relies upon the needs for states of nothingness.
This event lies in the middle - between a furniture shop and an art exhibition. Work will be sold through the age-old tradition of haggling; be prepared to grab yourself a magnificent piece of art history ready for practical domestic use in the home, at a bargain price.
7th -14th January :: My Visual Diary
A note from Ed :
"A self expression through live art following the rules of capturing a moment by drawing/painting what I can see around me, using only materials within hands reach. In each image I capture a separate moment; the use of tone and line work will not only represent the event and what my eyes can see but also the mood, emotion, thoughts and anxieties going through my head at the current time.
The artwork hopefully displays images people can relate to, expressing emotions through visualisations they can compare to their own thoughts in everyday situations."
2010
6th December - 15th December :: New Paintings
Daniel is a recent graduate from Northampton University and has already exhibited in London and Cyprus. Pedestrian Arts is pleased to announce that Daniel's first solo exhibition will be showcased across two of its amazing gallery spaces. He feels that he is at a crossroads with his work and has used the exhibition as an opportunity to test new ideas.
Daniel is a local artist who explores the line between abstraction and representation and attempts to frustrate the process of recognition for the viewer.
This is a great opportunity to view some thought provoking work from a developing artist who isn’t afraid of pushing boundaries.
For further information contact Daniel on: 07906691081 and to see more of his work click here.
19th November - 1st December :: Chromaphilia
Chromaphilia is the first exhibition by the colour-loving collection of artists Mark Boot, Jamie Scott and Simon Woolerton.
Simon has produced a group of oil paintings on canvas. Derived from the vibrations from sound he has used beautiful tones and colours to develop ‘Indigo’.
Mark’s large fluorescent sculpture is suspended from the ceiling by a motor to keep it rotating. ‘Chromophilia 1’ has a definite wow factor. He has blacked out our middle gallery space to show off his spectacular piece, which is made from copper pipe.
Finally Jamie has designed an installation that explores the use of positive and negative space. His use of acrylic on MDF generates interesting discussion of how we interpret the different shapes and colours.
The exhibition uses a variety of working practices to challenge and stimulate our interpretation and senses of colour.
10th October - 16th October :: MAX
A diverse grouping of this year’s graduates from the prestigious and acclaimed photography Masters programme at De Montfort University demonstrates a wealth of original and innovative photographic practice. Themes include pathos and humour, psychological investigations, landscapes that are both topographical and metaphorical, and street photography with images that intrigue and delight, puzzle and invite contemplation. The resulting exhibition encompasses and accentuates the wealth of life experience that students bring to the course.
David Atterbury, Daisy Fawcett, Ian Fletcher, Sian Hedges, Kate Luck, David Manley, Chris Matthews, Adela Miencelová, Ingrid Newton, David Singh, Daryl Tebbutt, Emma Willison.
1st October - 7th October :: Colour and Mind fifth Exhibition
Born 1959 in Iraq, Satta now lives and works in Leicester.
At the age of nineteen, Hashem's exile began when he left Iraq for Algeria where he started his education as an artist. He then moved to Russia to complete his education and then to Sweden, before settling in the UK in 2000.
Satta has an MA in Fine Arts (1989), from Mukhina College of Art and Design, in Leningrad, where he specialised in Mural painting.
He is represented in a number of collections, including drawings in The British Museum’s permanent collections, and paintings in the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Kaleningrad, Russia, Leicester Museum & Art Gallery – UK, and many private collections.
E-mail: hashem59@yahoo.com Web: www.sattahashem.com
16th August - 27th August :: Outcome
An Exhibition of the Outcomes of Pedestrian Students' 09-10 NOCN Art Qualification
Examples of the students' portrait work
Visually striking Light Graffiti in the form of a projected slide show
Students’ Computer Art, examples of work using Photoshop
Mixed Media pieces
Paintings of various sizes
An opportunity to view students’ sketchbooks, showing their development throughout the academic year
Students worked towards completing units in each term, creating sketchbook work and finished pieces. They were given the responsibility of planning projects and coming up with ideas for pieces within strict time scales, a valuable learning tool in itself. The students were also made aware of a final exhibition. This made for the enusiastic creation of canvases and installation style pieces of art suitable for display.
The project began in September 2009 and ran until July 2010. An arts based project, we took on a number of young people between the ages of 14 to 16 from the special education service and based the project around “urban style art” ie Graffiti and contemporary design. Notable projects on the course included computer arts, Animation, Light Graffiti and portraiture. The students came to us from the special education service in Leicester, a service specially set up to facilitate the learning of young people who have been presented with challenges affecting their progression in mainstream education. The course was a chance for these young people to find new skills and really spark their imagination, engaging them in a creative manner as well as providing them with important life skills in the safe, welcoming surrounding of the Pedestrian studio.
19th July - 27th August :: Youthnique Exhibition
Youthnique Summer Camp was a six week summer school at Pedestrian HQ, and featured Film, Music, and Drama production, Animation, Dance, and Urban Art. The exhibition shows off the work that was completed over course of the camp.
July :: Rowley Fields to Riverside The Story of School
Riverside Business and Enterprise College presents a collection of photos and documents from the past three decades to celebrate the life of the school and all that it has achieved. “The story of a school” commemorates the success of Riverside and the significant changes it has undergone from opening as Rowley Fields to becoming the much improved Riverside Business and Enterprise College. This fantastic exhibition created by the student council celebrates the final year of Riverside having all five years. In July 2011, due to unfortunate circumstances, Riverside will be closing its doors for good.
1st July - 6th July :: Moving in My World
The culmination of a two-year Loughborough University study, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which provides a unique insight into young people’s experiences and understanding of physical culture within their everyday lives.
More than 60 students aged 15 to 16 from Sir Jonathan North Community College, The Lancaster School, and City of Leicester College used digital cameras to record some of their daily physical activity for up to two weeks. This exhibition of words and photographs attempts to capture the many different ways the teens who participated see, talk about, and reflect upon the significance of physical activity as part of their day-to-day lives.
Their inspiring stories and photographs of Leicester city spaces give a valuable insight into how and why young people move in their worlds.
Around 100 of the 1,000-plus photographs taken for the project are on display for the Moving in my World exhibition. Photographs depicting activities from strolls through Leicester to organized, competitive sports are shown in three themed rooms at the Pedestrian Arts Centre.
A second exhibition is planned at the city’s New Walk Museum from 25 March to 15 May next year, where the full research findings are also expected to be available.