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The Prize was originally awarded by Lord Attenborough to the best contemporary visual artist exhibiting at the City Gallery’s Open 19 Exhibition, in Leicester, England. Lord Attenborough chaired the committee which selected the Prize’s winner from a shortlist of six artists, chosen from over a thousand exhibiting at the Open Exhibition.
King Richard III Visitor Centre is a museum in Leicester, England that showcases the life of King Richard III and the story of the discovery, exhumation, and reburial of his remains in 2012–2015. For a long time, the burial place of Richard III was uncertain, although the site of his burial was assumed to be in a Leicester car park.
Attenborough Arts Centre is an arts centre on Lancaster Road, Leicester, United Kingdom. [1] It is the University of Leicester arts centre but also serves Leicester as a whole. The centre's access and inclusive work has been recognised, through multiple awards and grants from Arts Council England , BBC Children in Need , LeicesterShire ...
The Leicester Museum & Art Gallery (until 2020, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery) is a museum on New Walk in Leicester, England, not far from the city centre. [1] It opened in 1849 as one of the first public museums in the United Kingdom. [2] Leicester Museum & Art Gallery contains displays of science, history and art, both international and local.
Upon graduation, Jones taught at Leicester Polytechnic. [ 1 ] Jones exhibited with the Systems Group and showed alongside fellow systems and constructivist artists in a series of important exhibitions during the 1960s and 1970s including the Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Construction England (1963); Unit Series Progression , Arts Council ...
The museum also houses a 1950s Leicester street scene modelled in Wharf Street with a number of model shops, as well as an exhibition of toys from Tudor times to the present. [1] Other collections relate to Leicester's industrial and hosiery industry, such as Corah's and Wolsey, major clothing firms in Leicester.
The Leicester Open was a combined men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1878 as the Leicester Lawn Tennis Tournament. It was held at the Leicestershire Lawn Tennis Club, Leicester, Leicestershire, England. It ran until 1939 as an open international tennis event. [1]
Granby Halls was a popular live music, exhibition and sports arena in Leicester, England, also notable as the long-serving home of the professional basketball team, the Leicester Riders, from 1980 until