Leigh984, The creative portfolio of Leigh Spencer

As part of the National Galleries "Coming Home" project well known portraits are "loaned" to the place most linked to the person featured, in this case King Richard III whose remains where famously found under a car park in the city of Leicester in 2012. The (surprisingly small) late 16th century portrait is hung at the New Walk Museum in the city as the centerpiece of an exhibition exploring the story of the King, the discovery of his remains and what these reveal about his life and death. The exhibition in partnership with Leicester Cathedral and The King Richard Visitor Center runs until September 22nd 2019 and is well worth a visit to see this historic portrait in person.

As part of the launch weekend for the Mods Shaping a Generation exhibition at New Walk Museum in Leicester, several scooter groups from the region and beyond met at the counting house pub before a mass ride out to the Museum, to display their customized scooters to the public. My film begins outside the counting house where the mods congregated ready for the short ride out to the museum. Soon with the familiar sound of their engines filling our ears and the smell of 2 stroke they arrive outside the locally famous columned frontage of the New Walk Museum where crowds had gathered to see the spectacle and maybe reminisce of past experiences.