London Cultural Olympiad - The Lionhheart Project - Shauna Richardson

Part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Artists Taking the Lead is an initiative that challenged artists across the country to propose ideas that celebrate their region. In the first of our series of films on the Cultural Olympiad, we join artist Shauna Richardson in her home in Leicester to talk about the Lionheart Project, one of 12 handpicked proposals commissioned by Arts Council England. Featuring three giant hand crocheted lions, the Lionheart Project is housed in a bespoke, mobile glass case, which will be travelling around the East Midlands. Here, Richardson talks to us about the project, 18 months of knitting in her studio, and celebrating her region's rich textile heritage. www.lionheartproject.com

[@JoshuaPazos]

Wow!

[@andrewburbidge]

Wool, from Leicester. Yeah! And Engelbert Humperdinck is in the Eurovision Song Contest, is from Leicester and lives at Great Glen. For the lions, could you get a treatment for the glass to cut down the glare? Or tent the sides of the vehicle? Could you run spotlights? Or one of those laser systems that people have on their houses? Just a few ideas I hope might be helpful to someone.

[@livingin1984]

I need to up my crochet game