Hung, drawn and celebrated

One of Nottingham's most famous authors is to become a permanent fixture at The University of Nottingham. A new portrait of Alan Sillitoe is to be donated to the School of Education on Jubilee Campus by local artist, Dr Edward Sellman, who teaches in the School of Education at the University. Dr Sellman will officially present the oil on canvas to the University on Monday 11 January. The Jubilee campus, where Dr Sellman teaches, is built upon the former site of the Raleigh bicycle factory where Sillitoe once worked and set his most famous novel, Saturday Night Sunday Morning. The portrait, one of a selection shown at Sellman's first solo exhibition held at the Nottingham Society of Artists in October, was painted after he visited Nottingham-born writer Sillitoe earlier this year. "Hanging the painting in the education foyer seems really fitting as its really close to where Alan used to come when he worked at the factory", said Dr Sellman. "Alan is the best-know person I've done a portrait of.