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VANILLA
GALLERIES
PRESENT
'BANG / TIDY'
1 SPACE
2 EXHIBITIONS
20 ARTISTS
FROM 13TH MARCH
Hello,
Have you ever seen the Northern Lights? I haven’t as I can’t afford it.
Between March 12th and April 11th Vanilla Galleries will be offering an aesthetic experience that rivals the Scandinavian skies. For free.
Vanilla Galleries will be hosting two exhibitions in a former empty shop space in Leicester’s Malcolm Arcade. These exhibitions will be a combination of artists’ site-specific reactions to the space and their own personal practice. Like all Vanilla Galleries events, the show will offer an exciting, multi-disciplinary experience.
Vanilla Galleries’ is a collective of around 30 artists initiated as a social enterprise (as mentioned by Andy Reed MP in the House of Commons) and directed by its members, most of whom are graduates of Loughborough University. Since forming in 2008, its main objective has been to foster emerging artists from the local area and providing them with experience and opportunities to develop their own creative practice. The University itself is an institution that has a great reputation and growing publicity due to the ever-increasing success of its School of Art and Design graduates (LUSAD). Recent alumni include internationally renowned Jamie Shovlin, and Benjamin Cohen, a short list prize-winner of the BP portrait award. It comes as no surprise that the University actively supports the work of Vanilla Galleries in achieving their ambitions.
Through the current economic thunderstorm the Vanilla Galleries’ ability to adapt to any opportunity has resulted in many successful projects. For example, ‘Extract’, an exhibition in an abandoned record store which saw 2000 visitors, participatory events such as ‘Number 26’, ‘Orange Sherbet’ and ‘Ay Up Me Duck’, as well as the delivery of unique creative workshops in schools and colleges who hunger for contemporary artistic inspiration.
‘Bang / Tidy’ takes place in a former hair salon and captures the spirit of previous successes. By hosting this event and collaborating with other local creative groups, Vanilla Galleries hopes to stimulate local residents in the face of recession and become a part of Leicester’s growing Arts and Cultural scene.
I recommend you save yourself a few bob and cancel your Icelandic vacation. Take a trip to Leicester city centre to see a group of emerging artists flicker powerful creative inspiration across the skies of the midlands.