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'Sweeting Meeting' Tony Heaton, 2018. Photo by Brendan Buesnel.
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Photo by Reece Straw, 2023.
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Photo by Reece Straw, 2023.
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Photo by Reece Straw, 2023.
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Photo by Reece Straw, 2023.
Exhibition
Tony Heaton 'altered'
24 Mar 2023 – 25 Jun 2023
Regular hours
- Monday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 16:00
Free admission
Address
- Lancaster Road
- Leicester
England - LE1 7HA
- United Kingdom
altered is a major solo exhibition by British sculptor and disability rights activist, Tony Heaton OBE. With wit and self-awareness, Heaton uses a range of materials and techniques to produce intelligent and thought-provoking work that is a reflection of the artist’s own biography.
About
The exhibition explores Heaton’s sculptural practice from his early disability rights activism and his initiation of the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA), to more recent work that includes direct stone carving and neon text pieces.
Attenborough Arts Centre’s presentation of altered follows on from the centre’s 2015 presentation of ‘Art, Life, Activism’, the inaugural exhibition in our new galleries. That exhibition included work by Heaton, notably ‘Gold Lame’ and ‘Shaken Not Stirred, and the artist was an exhibition that included work by Heaton and from which a work, Raspberry Ripple (2019) by the artist was acquired for the Grundy Art Gallery permanent collection.
altered is presented in partnership with Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre who have produced a catalogue to accompany the exhibition. The catalogue includes a foreword by Grundy Art Gallery’s Curator, Paulette Brien and texts by Bryan Biggs, Director of Cultural Legacies at the Bluecoat, Liverpool and Allan Sutherland, writer, performer and disability arts activist. The catalogue will be available to buy from Attenborough Arts Centre shop as well as a brand new limited edition sculpture. It is a wall-mounted version of Tony’s Suite sculptures, offered as a limited edition of 25 in each colour called ‘Sliced: Fruits’.
