Attenborough Late

Join us for the return of Attenborough Late, a fun-packed after-hours art experience the takes over our whole building. Our gallery and café will be buzzing with music, dance, performances […]

Sacred Threads: Stories We Almost Forgot

A collection of drawings and magazine cut-outs collected into a collage. At the top is written 'Life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself'.

Sacred Threads: Stories We Almost Forgot is a reflective exhibition that brings together faith, art and mental health, emerging from a collaborative creative programme developed in partnership with The Lantern Initiative and Takhleeq Leicester. Rooted […]

Saturday Gallery Art Club: with Poonam Thanki

A piece of white paper on top of a collection of scattered photographs. The paper has shapes and squiggles created with pens, threads and cut up paper. In the corner is another white piece of paper with a black squiggle with leaves made out of paper cuttings.

Saturday Gallery Art Club is your opportunity to get creative, explore art hands-on, and take inspiration from our latest exhibitions to create your own work. This session has been designed […]

Saturday Gallery Art Club: with Jaida Salmon

An abstract, colourfully painted background with an outline of a black square over the top. Inside the square it says 'This is me'.

Saturday Gallery Art Club is your opportunity to get creative, explore art hands-on, and take inspiration from our latest exhibitions to create your own work. This session has been designed […]

Saturday Gallery Art Club

A pair of hands creating with wire on a creative table.

Saturday Gallery Art Club is your opportunity to get creative, explore art hands-on, and take inspiration from our latest exhibitions to create your own work Open to everyone, each session […]

A Decade of Exhibitions

A pink box saying 'A Decade of' above a yellow box saying 'Exhibitions' on a dark green background.

In 2016, Attenborough Arts Centre opened its new purpose-built galleries, creating a new home for contemporary art in Leicester. Since then we have welcomed thousands of visitors and hosted a […]

Jemisha Maadhavji

A painted print of blue, orange and red fauna.

Attenborough Arts Centre is proud to present a new major solo exhibition by acclaimed portrait artist Jemisha Maadhavji. The exhibition will celebrate Jemisha’s vision of luxury, defined by her as a […]