Melbourne Festival: Art and Architecture Trail

Saturday 19 - Sunday 20 September, 10am - 5pm

VENUE 14 ON THE TRAIL GUIDE

The Main Hall at Melbourne Assembly Rooms, High Street Melbourne DE73 8GJ.

This year the Melbourne Festival Art & Architecture Trail features work by some of the Midlands’ best creative artists exhibiting their work in gardens, halls and local homes not usually open to the public in the heart of Melbourne.

Visitors will need a Trail Wrist Band and a Trail Guide to enter the buildings, they are available from street sellers and cost just £5 per adult, under 18’s free.

Find out more here

Perennial

Opening party: Friday 28 August. Exhibitions continues until Sunday 20 September.

Open Friday–Sunday, 12–5pm

Haarlem Artspace Gallery, The Red Lion, Market Place, Wirksworth DE4 4ET.

Join us for the Opening Party of this year's Perennial exhibition, Haarlem Artspace's annual exhibition celebrating the artists who make up the growing creative community around the gallery.

Selected by an independent panel, Perennial brings together over 100 artists working across a wide range of disciplines, backgrounds and approaches. The exhibition places artists side by side whose paths might not otherwise have crossed, creating opportunities for new conversations and connections.

Perennial is about more than the work on the walls. It brings together artists from Wirksworth with those working further afield, creating opportunities to meet, exchange ideas and build relationships that continue beyond the exhibition. By connecting artists, audiences and the gallery, it helps create the conditions for future collaborations and new opportunities to emerge.

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Leicester University

Air Pollution Exposure (Morning Commute) showcases the results of air pollution exposure during commuter hours to those travelling by car, bicycle and by foot in Leicester City Centre. A commission for a research project, ‘Creative Climates: Creatively Communicating the Environmental Emergency’, which aims to connect local environment and climate projects with arts organisations.

Nottingham Trent University

Peregrine Falcons as part of Global Week for NTU Global, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham.

Leicester Museum

Yellowhammer (Mouse) and Great Tit (Navy Bean) purchased as part of The Leslie – Farquhar Bequest. On display at the Victorian Gallery in Leicester Museum, Leicester.

Street Stories

An Augmented Reality Art Trail. Find my artwork ‘Sir David Attenborough and Endangered birds on The Red List’ at 15 Market Street, Leicester LE1 6DN. Download the app and find the map here.

2025 UPDATE: This has now been moved to Cank Street.