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Christina Wigmore is a mixed-media artist/printmaker/designer from Leicester.
Her art and design process involves building layers of imagery, manipulated to create mixed-media prints, collages and textile pieces which respond to stories and narratives.
With a DIY/Punk attitude to creating from what you have to hand,
re-using and reconstructing materials and use of experimental mixed-media
processes, inspiration comes from what’s happening in society and the unexpected and absurd in life.
Her work also explores emotional attachment to textiles, objects
and place, the positive aspects of nostalgia and the sense of wellbeing experienced from reconnecting with treasured objects and experiences from the past.
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Leicester has a rich textile, footwear design, and manufacturing heritage.
Due to the magnitude of this industry, in the 1930s it was named the second
richest city in Europe, and the slogan ‘Leicester clothes the world’ was seen
nationally and internationally.
As part of the Street Stories project, De Montfort University Fashion and
Textiles students were set a ‘past and future’ design brief around Leicester’s textile heritage. The project incorporates research on factories, machinery, production materials and key technological breakthroughs. One of the artworks is featured in the windows here.
27 High St, LE1 4FP
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Street Stories Leicester is back with a second installation!
Following the inaugural Street Stories project from 2019, when BID Leicester helped to birth the project, with a vacant units brief. Street Stories has returned to its home following installations around the nation.
Street Stories Leicester is bringing an improvement to vacant shops around the city centre again, incorporating five previous artworks and three new artists for 2025 looking into new themes around the city’s culture, nightlife and street arts scene, along with innovations in space technology.
You can find the original stories and animations here and on our YouTube channel
