00:00My name is Pete McKee and I'm an artist and I reside in Sheffield.
00:07So we're currently in my new gallery in Leah's Yard which is a redevelopment of a little
00:14network of little messes, factory units just on Cambridge Street in Sheffield city centre
00:19and the council have stumped up a lot of cash to bring it back to life and I couldn't wait
00:27to get in and say look I want to be in these units because it looks so fantastic and they've
00:32done a great job of bringing it back to its almost original condition when it was in full
00:39force as a unit of little messes and the whole development, it's got about five or seven
00:46new shops in this development and office spaces and it opens on Saturday at ten o'clock.
00:56The unit itself is quite smaller than my original gallery which I've moved from now
01:00so we're offering smaller prints for a start so we can get plenty up there and because
01:05a lot of people in Sheffield have got so much of my work they're in and out of space so
01:09I thought if I go smaller we'll get more prints in your house.
01:13So that's one thing, I've got two new limited editions open for grabs and the first hundred
01:19people that come into the shop and buy something get a free signed mini print.
01:30Well the snog itself when I originally painted it, the render on the wall was terrible on
01:34the side of the pub Fagans and it was my paint that was keeping it in place and over the
01:39years that paint started to fall off to the point where there was hardly any of the snog
01:44left and the pub had to do the rendering again because it was letting water in and
01:52that meant the snog had to go and so I offered to repaint it back on the wall once the render
01:59had been finished and we did that, we managed to do that in a day and it was about three
02:05or four months ago.
02:06I really did enjoy doing it, I went back and I corrected some errors in the original, just
02:11some bits that had bugged me ever since it had been up there so I just did a few little
02:17tweaks and I'm really really pleased now with how it looks.
02:20I was never happy with his flat cap and I think her hand could have been better so I
02:26tried just to correct those two things and also I brightened her up a little bit and
02:30gave her a new hairdo and a new coat for the repaint.
02:35I've got an exhibition coming up in November at Western Park Museum called The Boy With
02:42A Like Name Brian and it's a biographical piece and it's going to be up for quite a
02:47while while it's there and I'm still working on it now but it's going to be amazing.
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