Riverlights is proud to sponsor the Derby Well initiative which will launch with Derby Well Re-Dressed, a city arts trail, this coming Friday 25th September.
A street arts trail will take place over the weekend that should have been the annual Derby Festé which has been cancelled due to Government guidance around mass gatherings.
Five artists have been commissioned to install their work across the city centre for the weekend:
- Dan Webber who is an LGBTQ+ Spoken Word artist, promoter, producer and events coordinator based in Derby. He is creating a 49 line poem entitled ‘Derby Witness’ lines of which will be stencilled onto pavements, buildings and windows around the city.
- Community artists Katy Doncaster and Kat Dodds have created a textile installation entitled ‘Forest in the City’ which is inspired by people’s renewed appreciation of nature during lockdown. The artwork will be hung at Déda in Chapel Street.
- Derby visual arts group Spiral Arts is creating a contemporary well dressing exploring different cultural artforms and taking inspiration from ‘a celebration of community’ and ‘Black Lives Matter’.
- Textile artist Teresa Kate-Hempsell is working with local groups to create ‘Weave Connect Heal’. The warp-weave installation will use different materials and media for the threads.
- Emerging young artist Kiana D’aniello is celebrating her culture and balance the link between the past, present and future of black history through her collection entitled ‘Learning About My History’ which is a collection of colourful, hand-painted designs on seagrass baskets.
The artists’ work will be joined in the streets art trail by work and ideas submitted by local people as well as Art & Design students from Derby College.
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