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Where the Boatmen Dwell Exhibition

Date: Tue, 06th Feb 2024 - Sat, 27th Apr 2024 on Mondays,Tuesdays,Thursdays,Fridays and Saturdays

Venue: Loughborough Library, Local and Family History Centre

Where the Boatmen Dwell Exhibition

'Signs of Love': A new visual art exhibition by Ama Dogbe

Date: Sat, 10th Feb 2024 - Sat, 13th Apr 2024 on Thursdays,Fridays and Saturdays

Venue: Modern Painters, New Decorators Gallery

'Signs of Love': A new visual art exhibition by Ama Dogbe

Totally Locally BID Easter Bunny Trail

Date: Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 - Sun, 14th Apr 2024

Venue: Loughborough Town Centre

Totally Locally BID Easter Bunny Trail

Health From Cradle to Grave: Birthing Chair to Death Couch

Date: Wed, 27th Mar 2024 - Tue, 23rd Apr 2024 on Mondays,Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Venue: Martin Hall Exhibition Space

Health From Cradle to Grave: Birthing Chair to Death Couch

March 2024

Family Foraging (walk and learn about edible plants)

Date: Sat, 30th Mar 2024, 10:00 - 11:30

Venue: Morrisons carpark starting point

Family Foraging (walk and learn about edible plants)

Family Foraging (walk and learn about edible plants)

Date: Sat, 30th Mar 2024, 14:00 - 15:30

Venue: Morrisons car park starting point

Family Foraging (walk and learn about edible plants)

April 2024

Leicestershire Bonsai Club

Date: Tue, 02nd Apr 2024, 18:30 - 21:15

Venue: Whitwick Park Hall

Leicestershire Bonsai Club

Taylor's Bellfoundry Tour

Date: Wed, 03rd Apr 2024, 13:30 - 15:00

Venue: Taylor's Bellfoundry

Taylor's Bellfoundry Tour

Gardeners' Fair Loughborough

Date: Sun, 07th Apr 2024, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue: Loughborough Town Centre

Gardeners' Fair Loughborough

Artist-Parent Meetup

Date: Fri, 12th Apr 2024, 10:00 - 12:00

Venue: Modern Painters, New Decorators Gallery

Artist-Parent Meetup

Latest Events

'Alien Invasion': An online video game by Ama Dogbe

'Alien Invasion': An online video game by Ama Dogbe

Fri, 03rd Nov 2023 - Sat, 27th Jan 2024

About Ama Dogbe
Ama Dogbe is a British-Ghanaian artist who builds video games, digital animations and audio-visual installations exploring autobiographical and utopian themes. Her recent work uses interactive virtual world-building as a tool to examine family, identity and the internet. She has created digital forests, sky mazes, and gleaming platforms that audiences can explore online. Her processes often use self-taught and collaborative techniques to produce experimental and unconventional outcomes. Ama has been commissioned by Spike Island, Bristol (2023) and tiata fahodzi, Watford (2022). She has also exhibited with Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (2022), East Bristol Contemporary (2022) and Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester (2021).


About 'Alien Invasion'
Ama Dogbe presents a new version of Alien Invasion, an interactive web-based game. In Alien Invasion, figures descend upon a garden-like world, and players follow paths to uncover talismans, relics and icons. The game has been created in part through photogrammetry, the process of creating 3D digital outcomes from photographs. Using physical and digital repetition, Ama has created a web of symbols that are both strange and familiar. The game is accompanied by a soundtrack of electronic, ambient and contemporary hip-hop by musician Louis Jack. The video game will be available to play via the Modern Painters, New Decorators website. The project is funded by Arts Council England.


About Modern Painters, New Decorators
Modern Painters, New Decorators is an artist-led organisation running a gallery, shop and studios from a shopping centre in Loughborough, East Midlands, UK. We believe that artists can positively impact where we live and why we live there. We make visual art projects, community workshops and creative networks

'Hosiery Abstracts' by Katie Schwab

'Hosiery Abstracts' by Katie Schwab

Thu, 13th Oct 2022 - Sat, 05th Nov 2022

'Hosiery Abstracts': A new visual art exhibition by Katie Schwab
Part of 'Archive Fever', our programme for 2022

17 September – 5 November 2022, 1pm-5pm Thu-Fri, 11am-5pm Sat
Opening Night: 5:30pm-7:30pm, 16 September 2022

Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, LE11 3XA
www.modernpaintersnewdecorators.co.uk

About Katie Schwab
Katie Schwab is a maker who works with installation, textiles, print and video to explore histories of craft, design and education. Her interests focus on domestic spaces, civic architecture and play environments. Katie's projects are often hands-on, combining community workshops, oral history interviews, archive visits and skills-sharing. Katie lives and works in London.

About 'Archive Fever'
'Hosiery Abstracts' is the final exhibition in the 'Archive Fever' programme, a project about collecting and collections hosted by Modern Painters, New Decorators, funded by Arts Council England and produced in partnership with Leicestershire Museums Collection. Artists Joanne Masding, Jagjit Kaur, Dan Cowlam, and Katie Schwab have made new artwork in response to the historical items held in the Leicestershire Museums Collection.

About 'Hosiery Abstracts'
For this project, Katie immersed herself in local histories of machine knitting, visiting the Leicestershire Collection, Charnwood Museum and the Framework Knitters Museum. Katie examined knitted samples, garments and technical drawings to learn more about the wool trade, hosiery production and the knitting industry. Katie also attended a machine knitting course, learning techniques that have inspired new knitted artworks and a wall-based work. Katie has a family connection to the Leicestershire textiles industry. Her German Jewish great-grandfather emigrated to Leicester during WWII, where he worked for Midland Hosiery Mills Ltd, a present-day sock manufacturer.

LU Arts at Loughborough University has also commissioned Katie to produce a new public artwork on campus. As part of the Handicrafts Residency, Katie has been meeting makers and visiting local museums to look at different tools and techniques of production, from 19th-century Framework Knitting to modern punchcard-operated machines. Her commission will bring these interests together in a knitted wall-based artwork produced collaboratively with Loughborough University textiles students.