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Welcome to the Cultural Mapping Programme website

Cultural Mapping Public Art Programme Leicester

Welcome to the Cultural Mapping programme website - an information resource on the Leicester City Council led partnership project to create 15 site specific artworks to mark entrances, significant sites, and routes through Leicester.

The Vision and key objective of this project was to create and develop a distinct character for the city, but with identifiable local differences, as well as helping residents and visitors to visualise the city.

The resulting programme of work is based on a strong and recurrent theme: That of Leicester’s unique character and culture in terms of both the physical routes through the city and the cultural roots that contribute to defining it.

Four themes were chosen for the individual commissions and schemes. These were:

Green Routes through Leicester including the Riverside and cycle paths.

Entrances to the city, which are not only main arterial routes but are also gateways to communities, each with their own distinct identity.

Neighbourhoods with unique identities, both architecturally and in terms of their communities.

City Centre, which forms a natural convergence point for many routes with its own pathways, sites and functions.

We chose these themes for the potential they offered in terms of physical location, identity, and opportunities to achieve the aims of the Cultural Mapping programme.

More information on each of the 15 commissions can be found in The Artworks section of this website, under each of the four themes.

Who funded the Programme?

The Programme was primarily funded through Arts Council England (ACE) National Lottery funds.

Further partnership funding for individual commissions was secured during the life of the project through: Single Regeneration Budgets (SRB) funds, percent for art schemes, as well as additional Leicester City Council funding from capital and refurbishment schemes.