Children from Sacred Heart primary school who attended Leigh Neighbour’s holiday club this summer at the Turnpike Gallery have made some drawings of Keely Hodgkinson which are now immortalised in a plaque celebrating her achievements.
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00:00Tell us a little bit about what we're doing here today.
00:02So we're standing in front of our Wall of Fame which is near the parish church in Leigh by Little
00:09Asda and some years ago it seemed to me worthwhile that people who had achieved things in the arts
00:18or sports or science or politics who were from Leigh or born in Leigh or lived in Leigh were
00:25worthy of being celebrated. There was one blue plaque on James Hilton's house in Leigh at the
00:33time and I thought there are lots of other people who've achieved things over the years, let's
00:39celebrate them by giving them their own plaque on a wall in Leigh and the wall that we're in
00:46front of now was empty for many years. We got permission to do a mural on it and what we've
00:53created are some metal plaques where children have researched in the archives, made drawings
01:01and we've transformed them into some rather beautiful memorable art pieces.
01:06And tell us about the latest edition.
01:08The latest edition hot off the press is Keeley Hodgkinson who obviously has won gold medal at
01:16the Olympics this summer and a shining star within the athletics world who trained at Leigh Harriers
01:24from a very young age, was going to be a swimmer at Howbridge Sports Centre but changed to running
01:33and as they say the rest the rest is history. So we've got Keeley Hodgkinson now as the 15th
01:40person to be added to our wall of fame.
01:44And tell us a little bit about the artwork that's actually on it, where it's come from.
01:48So the artwork has come from various photographs of Keeley and we did some workshops at the Turnpike
01:55Gallery in the summer where I got the children from Sacred Heart School holiday club to make
02:03drawings, to do observational drawings of Keeley at various stages of her career.
02:11These were then scanned, some colour was added, a digital file was made and then printed into this
02:21metal circle that is now on the wall.