The Story of an Art Project

Humberstone Lane Thurmaston Leicester

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application

decision

conditions

The possibility starts with a percent for art or a section 106 provision within a planning decision.

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You have a location, which gives you a history and a community

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You make contact, start a dialogue

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You learn that the land was a prize roses garden before the war, dig for victory replaced the roses with vegetables, most recently it was a Market Garden, selling pot plants

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The children tell you about woolly mammoths, churches , boating lakes and ducks.

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Local residents remember playing in the garden with the son of the Director of Music for Leicester, they remember a Scottie Dog gate post and Scotties rushing up to greet them, the man who build it was Canadian, hence the colonial veranda.

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You consider how all the ideas that are being fed to you can be made simple enough to convert into a piece of work, in this case a brick wall

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You search for a way to make everything fit and flow together

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You work on a way to make it all hang together need a photo from the sketch book here

Many pages of sketchbook later, you are getting close.

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With the help of a few kind mentors, you develop some new skills in this case the Specials Department at Ibstock Brick

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You install it

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A bit more interesting than their norm

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You tell everyone about it, You throw a party. You get as much local display space as you can, this is Asda Café.

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A good positive experience….. House builders are not always popular!! Job done.

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Sue Gould

ThurmastonTimes

RipponHomes

Residents

Church Hill Junior School

Ibstock Brick

Local Authority

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