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Tim Fowler is a Leicester based artist working out of StudionAme – an artist studio/collective in Leicester’s cultural Quarter.
Tim creates bright exuberant portraiture paintings using acrylic, enamel oil, spray paint, ink, oil stick and marker pens to create partially recognisable images distorted with strong colour and abstract elements.
His main interest is the colours and their balance and placement, rather than the subject.
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Alice Hawkins, Leicester’s most famous suffragette, was born in 1863; she was one of nine children and had been born in to extreme poverty. From the age of 13, she worked making boots and shoes, a career that took her to the factory of Equity Shoes as a shoe machinist.
Being a mother to five and a wife to Alfred Hawkins, she joined the Independent Labour Party in 1894, and through this organisation, met Sylvia Pankhurst – one of the best-known suffragettes of her time – where they formed a friendship, especially after being imprisoned together.
Where to find/37 Belvoir Street, LE1 6SJ
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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
