Exhibition
The Feast Wagon
7 Oct 2015 – 10 Jan 2016
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- Hunslet Road
- Leeds
England - LS10 1JQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Leeds Bus Station
- Leeds National Rail
The Feast Wagon looks at identity and nationhood against a backdrop of today’s globalised contemporary art scene, with its international biennales and large-scale touring exhibitions such as the British Art Show.
About
The exhibition includes new work created for The Tetley by Simeon Barclay, Delaine Le Bas, Lubaina Himid and Susan Walsh in response to research by Leeds-based writer and researcher Irfan Shah.
Shah has extensively researched Louis Le Prince, the moving image pioneer and his brother-in-law John Robinson Whitley. Whitley was a local manufacturer based in premises just a stone’s throw from The Tetley, who styled himself as an ‘industrial PT Barnum’. He was responsible for bringing Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show to England in 1887 and staging large-scale shows on a patch of London wasteland that later became the international exhibition centre, Earl’s Court.
In a series of new commissions, the artists explore ideas of cultural exchange and possibilities for personal or collective reinvention through sculptural installations, collage, text works and a series of billboards across the city.
