With two theatres, galleries and a studio space, The Lowry combines the performing and visual arts to impressive effect.

Going To The Match 1953

At the end of a project about the Victorians and the industrial revolution, this class looked at the work of LS Lowry and produced these atmospheric townscapes

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Aside from Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and David Hockney—and, possibly, Henry Moore (for viewers of a certain age) and Damien Hirst (if you have only

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When I reached Stockport on the Mersey walk the other day, I took a stroll around the town and ended up in the Art Gallery on Wellington Road where a new exhibition had just opened. Street Scene: Artworks from Stockport's Art Collection features the work of well-known artists with local connections such as L.S. Lowry,…

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The Lowry is a vibrant arts centre with regularly changing exhibitions, theatres, a restaurant and terrace bar overlooking the canal and a coffee shop.

Landscape with Figures

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The platform of this station is crowded, thronging with figures from all walks of life. Businessmen chat, read the newspaper or simply stand with their briefcases, waiting for their train to arrive. Women with shopping and children are mixed amongst them, suggesting perhaps that we may be looking at a crowd waiting to go home after a day in the town centre. Skilfully Lowry weaves a curving line along the platform and back, taking the viewer from each little vignette to the next, very much the way we might if we found ourselves on the opposite platform, casually waiting for our own train and casting an eye over the scene. [Sotheby’s Auction House - Oil on canvas]

Many moons ago, I used to have a different blog, in which I wrote about local artists. I eventually gave it up when I became pregnant with my second daughter. But today I am going back to those roots, because I want to introduce you to the work of Claudia Lowry. I can’t remember how I found Clau