A multi-talented organisation is putting its work on show at the City Art Gallery in Leicester next week.

The exhibition is called ‘Headway Works!’. It includes pottery, woodwork, digital video, digital image manipulation, paper and card making, fabric craft and recycling weaving (otherwise known as ‘Trendy Trash!’).

All the artists are members of Headway, the brain injury association. They produce their work at Leicester’s Headway House with the help of staff, volunteers and external tutors.

Art and crafts are part of the rehabilitation process for people who have suffered a sudden brain injury. For many it is something quite new. Headway’s lifelong learning programme enables some of them to develop their new skills further at Adult Education Colleges. Headway House Manager Marietta Sharp says: "Over the week at Headway, many activities take place involving different members. People come from diverse backgrounds as a brain injury can affect anyone - at any time and in any place! The openness of the environment and people attending Headway encourages people to express themselves creatively and inspires others to attempt activities which they haven't tried before".

Headway and the City Gallery are staging the exhibition to celebrate 2003 – The European Year for People with Disabilities. But it is people with very real abilities who will remain in the minds of the Gallery’s visitors over the next couple of weeks.

‘Headway Works!’ is at the City Gallery, Granby Street, from 19-30 August. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Leicester, the High Sheriff of Leicestershire and the Lord Lieutenant of Rutland will be among the guests at a Private View on the evening of 19 August.

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