20-21 Visual Arts Centre

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, digital arts collective Genetic Moo have been running creative coding workshops across North Lincolnshire inspired by the classic play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Part of the Shake Shakespeare project (led by North Lincolnshire Libraries in partnership with Arts Development North Lincolnshire and Words Count), Love-in-Idleness is a colourful and vibrant interactive installation that springs into life with participant’s animated creations as viewers enter and move around the gallery.

Suitable for

• Any age

Website

http://www.2021visualartscentre.co.uk/exhibitions/genetic-moo-love-idleness/

In the past, many of the county’s churches were funded by wealthy landowners who made their fortune (quite literally) on the backs of the area’s iconic breed of sheep, the Lincolnshire Long Wool.

Since 2009, ArtsNK have brought together a range of community groups to create knitted versions of Lincolnshire churches, using the coat of the Lincolnshire Long Wool.

This exhibition features knitted versions of many well-known local churches, including St. Denys, Sleaford; St. Mary and St. Nicolas, Spalding; St. Botolph’s (the Stump), Boston; St. James’ Church, Louth; St. Wulfram’s Church, Grantham; and St. Mary’s Church (Stow Minster), Stow.

This project is funded by Arts Council England.

Suitable for

• Any age

Website

http://www.2021visualartscentre.co.uk/exhibitions/woolly-spires/

Borders, barriers and warning signs have come to be a part of our everyday life. Still, are we being kept out, or is something being kept in?

Originally commissioned for Hull City of Culture 2017, 20-21 is excited to present Annabel McCourt’s bold, visceral installation Electric Fence. Created in collaboration with interactive audio and technology specialists Interact and Connect, this thought-provoking and confrontational piece encourages viewers to examine the perceptions, challenges and preconceptions that impact us all in modern life, and compels us to turn to face them. Inspired by homophobic hate speech and resonating with Donald Trump’s ‘wall’, Electric Fence is grim yet unforgettable, and provides a macabre and powerful reminder of our own wicked potential.

Suitable for

• Any age

Website

http://www.2021visualartscentre.co.uk/exhibitions/annabel-mccourt-electric-fence/

Get Crafty, our popular weekly session, offers creative crafts and artist-run activities for adults with additional needs. Throughout summer 2017, the group has been working with regionally based artists Dominic Heffer, Nicky Dillerstone and Les Monaghan to create a new installation in for our gallery showcase. This bright and vibrant exhibition promises to take visitors on a journey through all four seasons, with artworks from Get Crafty members that include painting, photography and sculpture.

Suitable for

• Any age

Website

http://www.2021visualartscentre.co.uk/exhibitions/seasons-get-crafty-showcase/