Market Bosworth marks 'Changing Times' with new art trail

Friday, 11 June 2021 06:00

By George Ellison @ellisong51

Artists have worked with shop owners to put their work in shop windows.

Officially the exhibition, which is part of Market Bosworth Festival, starts from June 11th, but some of the pieces of art are already starting to appear.

It is the first event the festival has been able to put on since Spring 2020, due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Vice Chair of the festival committee, Liz Alun-Jones told Fosse107 their plans had to change dramatically due to Covid.

"This year we've obviously had to scale things back massively. Normally we'd have an art exhibition in the Dixie school for a full weekend.

"Instead we've asked shops and houses around Market Square if they'd host some art work in their windows.

"Peas Be With You" at Rose and Radish

"People have been very kind and lent us their window space."

The theme, changing times, was naturally born out of the difficult circumstances the festival had to be organised in.

Liz said, "It's much easier organising an art exhibition in just one room...it's been a lot more of a challenge than we first thought.

"But we've done it and it looks great."

The Market Bosworth Library Knit and Stitch group have installed their interpretation of the theme with 'A Stitch In Time'. You can find it in Wheatsheaf Courtyard, next to Cafe Torte.