Perceptions by Lupe Gallo

Argentinian artist Lupe Gallo enlisted local school children to create this artwork exploring the perception of the community as seen through an outsider’s eyes. She created the artwork in 2018, as the North Midlands Project and The Bank Gallery’s first international artist-in-residence. Of the piece she says: “Each square symbolises its people, traditions, the surrounding nature, the region and its history, making a colourful and welcoming painting, which is exactly what I wanted to display about the North Midlands. Its people are welcoming, inquisitive; one can experience a comforting silence, a vast sky filled with stars and many, many smiles. The colours represent the openness and the need for more openness and inclusion, playing with the past and the present simultaneously.”