Helen Clapcott: A Portrait of Stockport
Saturday 28 September 2024 to Saturday 25 January 2025
Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery is privileged to be hosting this highly anticipated, retrospective exhibition with widely revered Northern artist Helen Clapcott.
‘A Portrait of Stockport’ will have over 100 of Helen’s artworks on display including flagship pieces The Power Station, The Last Carnival and Brinksway 1979, Before The Motorway.
The exhibition will feature a 20 minute video on Helen and her work made by Tony Halton Films. Accompanying the exhibition is the first major monograph on the artist, ‘In the Light of Buildings’, authored by Andrew Lambirth and published by Lund Humphries.
Helen has an impressive career spanning several decades and is renowned for her depictions of the post-industrial landscape of her hometown, Stockport. A result of meticulous sketches, her paintings record an evolution of a once great industrial town with its mills and renowned viaduct into a modern town fit for the 21st century.
Helen has a significant profile in the North and the exhibition, which is a celebration of her works, is set to be a key event in the gallery’s calendar. She is a post-graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts and has had major exhibitions at Scolar Fine Art and the Osborne Samuel Gallery in London’s Mayfair.
This exhibition is being staged with support and funding from Stockport Council. The War Memorial Art Gallery has received funding from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
SAS Daniels is the main sponsor of this exhibition.