Lboro Lates 




Next event: 6pm, Friday 3rd May 2024




Lboro Lates is an event hosted by arts and culture venues spread across our town centre and campus. Loughborough comes to life with art exhibitions and events - all free to visit.






 What’s on: 



Reflections and Disguises


Student Exhibition at:
Charnwood Arts, 27 Rectory Place, LE11 1UW

What to expect:
︎︎︎Painting

︎Clear signage
︎Lighting outside the venue
︎Accessible by wheelchair
︎Team will welcome guests
︎Accessible toilets
An exhibition by Loughborough College BTEC Art & Design students in response to the theme of reflections and disguises. These ambiguous words have inspired thought-provoking works which have been visually captured through their creative practice. 

Throwing Drop-in


Workshop at:
The Clayrooms, 7 Wards End, LE11 3HA

What to expect:
︎︎︎Sculpture

︎Clear signage
︎Accessible by wheelchair
︎Offering a quiet time
︎Public toilets
Have a go on the potter's wheel! Free pottery throwing session where you can have a go at centring clay on the wheel, knuckle lifting to turn your piece into a cylinder and make a plant pot or bowl. These can be taken home to air dry.

Interns vs Aliens


Student Exhibition at:
Institute, Upper Rooms, Baxter Gate, LE11 1TG

What to expect:
︎︎︎Sound / music

︎Clear signage
︎Lighting outside the venue
︎Accessible by wheelchair
︎Team will welcome guests
︎Public toilets
Loughborough College T-Level students show off an album and it's promotion material created as part of their industry placement at Institute.

Tearing up Vogue and Mining the Detritus


Exhibition at:
Martin Hall Gallery, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, LE11 3TS

What to expect:
︎︎︎Drawing
︎Clear signage
︎Lighting outside the venue
︎Accessible by wheelchair
︎Team will welcome guests
︎Accessible toilets
How can montage allow an artist to deconstruct and challenge fashion media, particularly the racialised and gendered bodies in Vogue magazines? Does using a fashion magazine as source material risk giving voice to already dominant or normative images of women?

Chrome Sliced by Silver


Workshop at:
MHL0.07, Martin Hall, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, LE11 3TS

What to expect:
︎︎︎Sculpture
︎Clear signage
︎Lighting outside the venue
︎Accessible by wheelchair
︎Team will welcome guests
︎Accessible toilets
Try out creative writing prompts and pick up limited edition special publications relating to the Loughborough University Sculpture Collection. The workshop will take place 6-7pm.

What We Leave We Carry


Exhibition at:
Modern Painters, New Decorators, Carillon Court Shopping Centre, George Yard, LE11 3XA

What to expect:
︎︎︎Painting

︎︎︎Prints
︎Lighting outside the venue
︎Accessible by wheelchair
︎Large format hand outs
︎Team will welcome guests
A new solo exhibition by Ghanaian artist and teacher Papa Essel. Papa creates image and text-based paintings, combining newspaper headlines, proverbs, textile patterns and adrinka symbols.

My Window On The World


Exhibition at:
Sock Gallery, Loughborough Town Hall, Market Place, LE11 3EB

What to expect:
︎︎︎Painting
︎Clear signage
︎Accessible by wheelchair
︎Team will welcome guests
An exhibition by Barbara Bagley. Barbara loves making the most of the everyday. This exhibition will include a whole range of her work from town and village illustrations, woodland scenes, and fantasy islands to digital paintings.


Exhibition at:
The Tangent Gallery, 17 Southfield Road, LE11 2TS

What to expect:
︎︎︎Painting

︎Clear signage
︎Lighting outside the venue  
︎Team will welcome guests
︎Public toilets
The Tangent Gallery presents Burn, an exhibition of paintings by Paul Dexter. Also a selection of prints and high quality printed greetings cards by Paul Dexter.





 Taking part: 



Everyone is welcome at Lboro Lates. We want to showcase a range of art and culture activity in Loughborough. If you are running a cultural event  – we’d love for you to be a part of Lboro Lates.


Lboro Lates is coordinated by Modern Painters, New Decorators. You can contact us at mpndprojects[at]gmail.com if you have any questions, or drop into our space in Carillon Court Shopping Centre. Please try and submit your information at least two weeks before the Lboro Lates you are taking part in. We cannot guarantee we will be able to list your event after this time.

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