Photographic work by Michèle Lazenby features in ‘In Celebration of Trees’ from 7 – 11 January 2017

New photographic work by Michèle Lazenby is to feature in the exhibition In Celebration of Trees, in support of the campaign to save Sheffield’s street trees.  The event at Bank Street Arts is organised by the Nether Edge Tree Group with the support of the Woodland Trust.

In Celebration of Trees is an exhibition of photographs that comes at a point when trees have become an unusually divisive and highly charged issue in Sheffield. Sheffield has around 35,000 street trees and the City Council has said that they are considering felling about half of these, even though the vast majority are healthy mature trees, causing only minor damage to roads or pavements. While a 2007 independent survey suggested that just 1,000 of the city’s street trees needed replacing, 4,000 have since been felled.

Find out more at savesheffieldtrees.org.uk

Date:   7 – 11 January 2017

Time:  11am – 4pm (Wednesdays to Saturdays).

Venue:   Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield, S1 2DS

Private view:  6 January 2017.

Michèle Lazenby is a Sheffield-based artist-photographer and Senior Lecturer in Photography in Sheffield Institute of Arts at SHU.