Lexi
Created by: Jenny Leonard
Sponsored by: BID Leicester
Location: Middletons Steakhouse – St Martins
Overview
Artist Jenny Leonard has reimagined her Elephant sculpture as a giant 3D portrait, featuring dozens of stark black and white abstract faces that blend into one another. The more you look at them the more faces you’ll find!
Location
Middletons Steakhouse – St Martins
Meet the Artist
Jenny Leonard
I am a community driven commission artist always pursuing collaborative art projects that bring people together. I currently draw live illustrations for virtual online events and take illustration and painting commissions. I specialize in murals and site specific public art for the community. I have exhibited over 80 sculptures on public art trails and have collectively raised over 250k for partnering charities. My best sale at auction for Wild in Art was £25k for the flagship Elephant designed for The Big Trunk trail in Luton in 2021.
Meet the Sponsor
BID Leicester
BID Leicester is here to help the city centre thrive! Funded by local businesses, we deliver events, campaigns and services that showcase Leicester and make it a cleaner, greener, safer and more vibrant city centre. From city-wide festivals, to our brand new My Leicester App and brilliant trails like Stomp Around Leicester, we’re all about creating reasons to visit, explore and enjoy everything our amazing city has to offer.
Meet the Elephants
Kaleidoscope
Created by: Glebelands Primary SchoolLocation: King Richard III Visitor CentreThe whole school had the brief of diversity. They then represented this in their designs along with the school values of Empathy, Learning, Respect and Kindness. The whole school agreed that...
Geraldine
Created by: Gartree High SchoolLocation: This + That by LOROSAll of our KS3 students worked so hard in coming up with incredible design ideas for our elephant - exploring different cultures, the idea of loss and healing, and things that give us happiness and comfort....
Atlas
Created by: Ellesmere CollegeLocation: Westcotes LibraryEllesmere students have been looking at environmental issues this year. They wanted to highlight some of those issues in the design of Atlas and in his description. Green house gas emissions associated with food...
Dorothy
Created by: Dorothy Goodman SchoolLocation: Attenborough Arts Centre - The Salmon GalleryThe sculpture was delivered to the Vocational Sixth Form site of Dorothy Goodman School. Students got to see the elephant for the first time in an end of day assembly. They were...
Rosemary
Created by: Danemill Primary SchoolSponsored by: SimplifyLocation: Leicester Cathedral - Main HallAfter hearing about the ASHA charity and how they support children in the slums of India the Children of Danemill thought there would be no one better to look to for...
Effie
Created by: Church Hill Infant SchoolLocation: Leicester Guildhall- Great HallWe based the design on our school values. Each class was given a focus value to create a design for their section of the elephant. The five designs were; Teamwork, Excellence, Being Unique,...
Addai
Created by: Christ the King Catholic Voluntary AcademyLocation: Westcotes LibraryAll children had the chance to submit a design idea for our elephant. From nearly 200 designs, a selection from across year groups were picked to be included in our final design. The idea...
Sparkle
Created by: Christ Church & St Peter's Primary SchoolLocation: LOROS Bookshop - WindowThe whole school took part in a competition to design Sparkle. We really wanted her to represent the school, our values… and our sparkly edges! Someone mentioned the tea towels...
Artie
Created by: Charnwood ArtsSponsored by: Morningside (Aspire Pharma)Location: Attenborough Arts Centre- The Salmon GalleryCharnwood Arts is dedicated to promoting creativity, inclusion and community engagement through the arts. This is why our artists wanted to create...