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The Bradford Piano Trail

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Explore the Bradford Trail

Find a piano near you and come and play.

Broadway Piano Designed by Ben Holden

The Broadway is a shopping and leisure complex in the centre of
Bradford, which opened in 2015.

Airedale Centre Piano Designed by Amy Nield

Airedale Shopping Centre is located in the centre of Keighley, and features a Dementia Friendly drop in centre on Towngate.

Cliffe Castle Museum Piano Designed by Jeane Bridgeman

Cliffe Castle Museum is part of Bradford District Museums and Galleries, and was originally built in the 1880s as the home of Victorian millionaire and textile manufacturer, Henry Isaac Butterfield.

Kirkgate Piano Designed by United Art Project

The Kirkgate Centre was Bradford’s first ever shopping centre and is a city centre landmark, which opened for business in 1976.

Meet the Bradford Piano Artists

Ben Holden
Ben Holden

Benjamin James Holden (BJ The Bear) is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and musician living and working in his home-town of Bradford, West Yorkshire. A lover of bold, expressive & colourful mark-making.  bjthebear.com https://www.instagram.com/bjthebear

Amy Nield
Amy Nield

Esk Haus is an illustration studio, run by Amy Nield, that tackles being kind to the environment whist creating art for the home. Saving furniture and paint from landfill by upcycling it into furniture art, painting wall murals and running creative workshops. Amy is available for commissions, please give her a follow @eskhaus to see more of her work and to get in touch.

Jeane Bridgeman
Jeane Bridgeman

Jeanne Bridgeman is a Bradford-based seamstress, textile artist, costumier and prop-maker whose sewing career began when she was a child, creating patchwork with her mother. Jeane has worked in fashion and theatre all over the UK and Germany and now runs pop up sewing classes from her workshop in the Kirkgate Centre, Bradford. She says, “I am thrilled to be commissioned to design a tapestry cover for the piano at Cliffe Castle Museum. My design is inspired by awe and reverence for the skills of the architects, stonemasons, ironsmiths, weavers and spinners who created Cliffe Castle. It honours the magnificent work of the Bradford textile industry in days gone by and, I hope, the work of future generations.”

United Art Project
United Art Project

The United Art Project team is made up of Professional Artists and a registered HCPC Arts Psychotherapist, who use their skillset, theoretical knowledge and experience to create artistically creative experiences for local communities that will unite individuals and offer new explorative opportunities. The United Art Project is founded upon 5 pillars of operation, its purpose is to facilitate unique and bespoke experiences that offer: ‘Art for Free’, ‘Art to Unite’, ‘Art to Heal’, ‘Art to Aspire’ and ‘Art to Seek’. The painters of our piano consist of previous project participants and artists Emily Smith and Kes Townend, United Art Project staff Kayle McCoy and Sarah Fearne- and professional artist Jamie Steward. Together we have combined techniques to develop a fun and bouncy piano – suitable for the vibrational frequencies of the keys played by our passing pianists.

Partnerships lie at the heart of The Leeds, helping us to bring the Piano Trail to life.

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