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28/03/2022

Tex-Tales exhibition is on for 2 more days - today until 3pm & tomorrow 7am - 3pm Leicester Coffee House Company

23/03/2022

Thanks to all those that have popped into Leicester Coffee House Company this week to visit the exhibition. 2 days left to have a look and drink amazing coffee at the same time. Open 7am - 3pm during the Coffee House opening hours, 110 Granby St, Leicester. Telling the story of the coffee house through textile design! Part of BETA X

03/03/2022

I'm doing a project and exhibition with Leicester Coffee House Company as part of the BETA X programme. Reimagining the story of the coffee house through design.

Pop in and enjoy a cup of wonderful ethically sourced coffee and cake whilst looking at textile designs and digital projections. Open 9-3 Mon-Fri 21-25 March '22.

Thanks to Arts Council England for the support.

19/04/2021

Nice little article about De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) student work featured in the LCB Depot Fashion exhibition including a little bit about my work :-) Do check out the exhibition in the LCB Depot windows and across the road at Manhattan Bar. The Fashion Season exhibition is on until the end of this week.

Davina Hawthorne Wigmore K West Design

Creative concepts by students and alumni from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) are featured in an exhibition hosted by the city

04/01/2021

Working on presenting some of my textile and surface designs and product ideas I've been creating for my MA Textiles project over the past couple of months. This is where you need a professional photographer, a great camera and lights and a studio and not to be in TIER4 Lockdown!!! :-(

02/10/2020

Some quirky DIY t-shirt designs maybe...... celebrating the doing of gardening, decorating and DIY over the last few months

25/08/2020

Check out Leicester’s project. Follow the trail & see empty shop unit windows brought to life with brilliant artwork & a free downloadable augmented reality app

21/08/2020

I'm so excited and honoured to be involved in Leicester's brilliant project, representing De Montfort University MA Fashion & Textiles Department Davina Hawthorne - Fashion and Textile Designer

BID Leicester has worked with Joe Nixon of Arch Creative to deliver a spectacular new vacant units project, designed to improve the appearance of empty shops in the city centre and turn them into points of interest.

Arch Creative has worked with 10 community-focused local artists spanning a range of styles and mediums. Street Stories celebrates the achievements of pioneering people from Leicester and explores themes including human rights, the environment, consumerism and identity. Empty shop units around the city centre have been transformed into living works of art, with a trail which people can follow around the streets of Leicester. An Augmented Reality (AR) app brings each shop window artwork to life with multi-sensory animation, triggered by a free downloadable smartphone app.

My design can be seen on Market Street. It is inspired by Leicester's rich textile heritage and the replica Statue of Liberty that used to stand on top of the Liberty Shoe factory and now sited on Bede Island. Download the app from the website or whilst you're checking out the artwork and take a walk around and see all the units and the work by the other artists involved.

Find out more: https://www.bidleicester.co.uk/streetstories/

01/07/2020

Walk free bag design :-)

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29/06/2020

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Free art pack giveaway from to coincide with their online artist workshops! Open to anyone that wants to have a go at making their own mask, nest building, sculpture park, QR code, paper airplane, or maypole at home. To join, email [email protected] to reserve your art pack and send a photo of your creation before 19 July and you could win original artwork from one of our artists!

For the FLUX project, Anna invites the public to create a ‘Stay Home Sculpture Park’ using objects to hand from around their home. In an allocated space, people are encouraged to group and layer items of different shapes, textures and colours to create either a Sculpture Park City of buildings, ...

26/06/2020

Textiles and technology short animated film of woven wires and tree roots inspired by birds reclaiming nature during lockdown 2020. Guest artist piece for Leicester Digital Arts Exhibition 2020 https://interactdigitalarts.uk/digital-arts-leicester