Attenborough Late

A sun-like shape in the middle with Attenborough Late Late Late written in the lop left and bottom right corners. The sun-like shape slightly overlaps the text.

Online booking will be available on Monday 2 March. Join us for the return of Attenborough Late, a fun-packed after-hours art experience the takes over our whole building. Our gallery […]

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 […]

Jason and the Adventure of 254

Three people, two standing and one in a wheelchair, looking at a giant pair of cartoonish, colourful legs with braces and colourful shoes. Behind them is a yellow wall with giant drawings of stylised people.

This exhibition is in partnership with Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection and Attenborough Arts Centre are pleased to present ‘Jason and the Adventure of 254’, a major solo exhibition by Jason […]

Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles

Colourful fabric draped over large stone structures in a white room.

This exhibition is in partnership with Hayward Touring. Attenborough Arts Centre presents ‘Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles’, an ambitious group exhibition exploring how artists are using textiles in surprising […]