The Hub

I wanted to tell you all about an art and craft exhibition centre I visited recently. It is called The Hub and is located in Sleaford in Lincolnshire. If you are close enough you must visit it. The exhibitions change but at the moment they have a big selection of Vivenne Westwood shoes to celebrate her 70th birthday. It includes collections like the animal toe shoes/boots, pirate boots and prostitute shoes!

One particular favourite of mine are the bag boots which are big pieces of fabric taken round the sole of the boot and brought in at the top of the boot which creates a baggy middle that look like literally a bag with a sole attached.

The pair that remind me of a bag - notice the animal toes!

The exhibition also includes a bright green pair of electric blue high heeled shoes that are the same as the pair that toppled Naomi Campbell on the catwalk.

The pair the same of those that toppled Naomi Campbell

 Another pair I partiularly like, and would love to own, is a pair of boots that are part of the pirate boot collection. They are an average height made of a sort of canvas fabric with a gorgeous pattern on. They are sewn about a centimentre from the edge so the edge is left to fray. It is all held together with real leather buckled straps, amazing.

My absolute favourites 

The only pair of shoes that I didn't like were the snake shoes.

 I believe these shoes were intended for men and are made leather to look like snake skin which to be honest I find a bit disgusting.

Apart from a couple of pairs of shoes the overall exhibition was brilliantly staged and set out. There was also an amazing short film on replay in one corner performed by a theatre group. All of the actresses in the film were wearing a pair of Vivenne Westwood which you zoomed in on every so often. However, it was difficult to understand what it was all about - very arty!!!  The whole exhibiton was fantastic and well worth a visit if you are near by.

 In the hub there are two galleries, the main one where the shoes were held and the roof gallery which is smaller than the main gallery. At the time the roof gallery was exhibiting masculine fashion photographs. The whole room was filled with photographs of celebrities in different styles of clothing. This included various periods of clothing like the 80's  90's and so on. It was a good exhibition but could have been improved by having actual clothes on show as apposed to just photographs. Obviously I was unable to take photographs of photographs, so don't have anything to show you for this.

Finally, there were cut flowers from paper hanging from the staircase.  The paper was laser cut and then the artist put them together in a garden!

This is an example of the laser cut paper "garden"

This was shown very creatively, and was something I had not seen before, so was really interesting and inventive.
Meghan