Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery on Wellington Rd South is gearing up to host a highly anticipated, retrospective exhibition with widely revered Northern artist Helen Clapcott.
The exhibition, ‘A Portrait of Stockport’, will open on 28th September and run until 25th January. Over 100 of Helen’s works will be displayed, including flagship pieces The Power Station, The Last Carnival and Brinksway 1979, Before The Motorway.
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.
The main sponsor of ‘A Portrait of Stockport’ is local business and leading North West law firm, SAS Daniels, which has offices in Stockport, Chester, Macclesfield and Congleton.
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.
Artist Helen Clapcott said ‘It’s 50 years since I sat by the side of the Viaduct painting the mills, 40 years since the Power Station was untangled and demolished and 30 years since the motorway was completed. Stockport my home town with its ever-changing topography is as inspiring today as it was when I first set out with a sketchbook. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to hold a retrospective exhibition of my work at Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery.’
