Loughborough Echo

Outdoor sculpture event to get bigger

Outwoods event last year was a hit

- DAVID GODSALL david.godsall@reachplc.com

FOLLOWING the success of the ‘Into The Outwoods Sculpture Week’ event last spring, the Loughborou­gh Outwoods Management Committee have given their approval to plans for a bigger and better event in spring 2019.

The event will include free creative art workshops for the public as well as a six-week long ‘Sculpture Trail’ through the woodland itself. The organiser, Loughborou­gh ArtSpace, is now seeking funding to stage the event and make it a reality.

The event will take place in April/ May and will follow on from an eight-week ‘Artist Residency’ by local sculptor Nita Rao in February/ March.

She will be making work in the woodland in response to the environmen­t, temporary short-term work as well as more substantia­l pieces which may form elements of the sculpture trail.

In addition, ArtSpace hopes to commission around 10 artists to make work specifical­ly for the sculpture trail. All work for the trail will be installed mid-April and the trail will be officially opened with a weekend event at the end of the Easter holidays, April 27-28, including free creative drop-in workshops for the public.

A full programme of events will be announced as the plans develop.

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Last year’s outdoor sculpture event held at the Outwoods in Loughborou­gh.
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