Ian Pepper and Friends
Welcome to My World
PREVIEW | PERFORMANCE: The Creatures of Habit
Thursday 24th November | 7.30pm – 9.30pm
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Saturday 26th November | 2pm – 4pm
Sunday 27th November | 2pm – 4pm
Monday 28th November | 11am – 2pm
Saturday 29th November | 2pm – 4pm
Sunday 30th November | 2pm – 4pm
Monday 1st December | 11am – 2pm -
Ian Pepper is a multidisciplinary figurative artist inspired by New Scottish Painting, German Expressionism and Outsider Art. He is chiefly interested in exploring human relationships and the ways in which people gather together to form different cultural groups. Pepper works within artistic traditions to explore these themes, trying to create work which is rooted in realism but which is also sprinkled with a sense of mischief and fun.
Exhibitions include Love Arts Festival, The Light Leeds; Is/N’t, Delius Centre Bradford; From Sea to you / Del mar para ti, Poca Gallery Portugalete; Personal Reflections Exhibition, The Bowery Gallery Leeds
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WEBSITE: www,ianpepper.co.uk
‘Welcome to My World’ features work by Claire Bentley-Smith, Paul Walsh and the participants from Vale Circles. It the second exhibition in 2016 that has been led by artist and musician Ian Pepper, and comes on the back of the Leeds Inspired funded project A Feast of Beeston.
Following on from the ‘Feast of Beeston’ project earlier on in the year Ian Pepper along with BasementArtsProject staged two workshops based around the idea of portraiture and collage. These were held at Vale Circles and included the users of the centre along with people from the South Leeds Community. To encourage different types of thinking about the reasons for making and engaging with art we set a challenge and made a promise: every single person who made something as part of the workshops would have their work included in a second exhibition that would be completely open to the public, at BasementArtsProject. In that moment Welcome To My World was born.
With thanks to Paul Digby and Will Morris at Vale Circles
