Badge Project

Welcome to the slightly revised Monitor website. This will be the home of the Badge Project for the next 3 months before we launch our super duper new archive website.

We have selected 8 artists to respond to postcode areas around Leeds City Centre for the Situation Leeds festival of art in the public realm. They have been asked to keep a blog relating to their research on this website. The selected artists are:

LS4/5 Mike Lewis
LS6 Helen Grundy
LS7 Adam Bridgland
LS8 John Hall
LS9 Rebecca Strain
LS10 Alexander Stevenson
LS11 Simon Canaway
LS12/13 Louise Atkinson


Here is the official blurb about the project as submitted to Situation Leeds:

Journey beyond Leeds City Centre and collect a limited edition set of pin-badges.

Monitor have commissioned eight artists to design a limited edition set of badges for each postcode area on the periphery of Leeds city centre. The badges are the culmination of the artists' research undertaken in each area, encapsulating their experiences. Monitor invites you to navigate Leeds to collect the full set of badges. In addition the Monitor collective have designed a ninth badge for the city centre to start you off.

To seek out your set of badges visit www.monitorleeds.org where bus and cycling routes from venue to venue are suggested. Take note, each badge is only available to collect from a designated venue in the postcode area for which it was produced.

Log on to view the artists’ weblog for information about each artists' work and their investigations and for ideas of things to look out for on your travels.

Come along to the launch night on 15th May to meet your fellow adventurers. This is a joint launch for Monitor, Black Dogs and The Bus Stop Project. Expect art, music, fun and games and the chance to start off your badge collection.