HEAVEN is a solo show premiering a new film by the FABULOUS George Storm Fletcher  made in collaboration with  Leeds artist and filmmaker Ronnie Danaher,  Lizzie Simpson of 'InaGadda' and  George's Mum Amanda Fletcher, funded by Leeds City Council through the Leeds Cultural Investment Program and HPAC

 

Free event - all welcome 

 

'For the exhibition 'HE A V E N' Fletcher documents an oral history of Leeds across two generations. This centres on a main road artery that runs through the student centre of Leeds- the infamous Kirkstall Road. Initially Fletcher misunderstood their Mum, and recounted the happenstance as happening on Otley Road in LS6, home to Hyde Park Book Club; but as the tale unravels, the detail shifts and they rediscover the detail of the story together on a journey in a new van, with fresh flowers.

 

At the heart of the research is Fletcher's relationship with their Mum, Amanda, and the film archives anecdotes as a point of connection, in a city that they live in, and their Mum grew up in. 'In 1982, my Mum went out in Leeds her old 'stomping ground, and fatefully missed the last bus.  She started to walk back to Burley-in-Wharfedale, down Kirkstall Road. She got all the way to Guiseley when a floristry van picked her up and safely took her home. She describes the floral smell of that Interflora van as

'HEAVEN.

 

Fletcher has collaborated with Leeds-based Filmmaker Ronnie Danaher @ronniedanaher to commit this storytelling to the screen, creating a new film piece'Heaven' [2024] and creating in itself a new fruitful exchange between the two artists. This audio-visual feast tells the story of coming of age, serendipitous encounters and the kindness of strangers in the style of a 'road movie'.