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Meet Michelle and Leanne
Meet the 2025 Artist and Author in Residence Michelle Reader and Leanne Moden, and find out more about their professional practices!
Michelle Reader and Leanne Moden are the new 2025 Artist and Author in Residence for Inspire!
Inspire are delighted to announce that artist Michelle Reader and author Leanne Moden have been selected as the 2025 Artist and Author in Residence and will co-create the exhibition and workshops inspired by the Summer Reading Challenge theme.
Seed Exhibitions
Imagine a garden where the most magical seeds can grow!
An exhibition that will seed ideas and grow imaginations. In partnership with four primary schools, Michelle and Leanne have explored the notion of seeds and that planting any idea can cultivate artworks and nurture writings.
Now on display at Hucknall, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Mansfield Central and Sutton-in-Ashfield Libraries
Saturday 12 July - Sunday 7 September 2025
Seed Family Workshops
Join sculptor Michelle Reader and poet Leanne Moden, Inspire’s 2025 Artist and Author in Residence, to draw, create and write about bizarre and fantastical plants. Inspired by this year’s Summer Reading Challenge theme, Story Garden. Grow your imagination to create a magical seed packet, recycled sculpture or story to take home with you!
Have a go at home!
Arts & Culture
Seed Family Workshops
Free family workshops celebrating a collaboration between artists and author.
Arts & Culture
Exhibition: Seed
An exhibition that will seed ideas and grow imaginations. On display at Hucknall Library from 12 July to 7 Sept 2025
Arts & Culture
Exhibition: Seed
An exhibition that will seed ideas and grow imaginations. On display at Kirkby-in-Ashfield Library from 12 July to 7 Sept 2025
Arts & Culture
Exhibition: Seed
An exhibition that will seed ideas and grow imaginations. On display at Mansfield Central Library from 12 July to 7 Sept 2025
Arts & Culture
Exhibition: Seed
An exhibition that will seed ideas and grow imaginations. On display at Sutton-in-Ashfield Library from 12 July to 7 Sept 2025
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Supported using public funding by Arts Council England
