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The Homes of Football Gallery

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The Homes of Football Gallery
The Homes of Football
100 Lake Road
Ambleside
Cumbria
LA22 0DB

Tel: 01539 434 440

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About The Homes of Football Gallery

2 floors of photography, with ever-chaging displays centered around Stuart Roy Clarke's legendary Homes of Football collection, but also starring his Cumbria Promised Land and Pop Music Festival collections.
Born in 1961 in Hertfordshire, England, Clarke has been based for his entire professional career in the wilds of the romantic English Lake District. Certainly this has influenced his approach to what might be thought of as an urban phenomenon. Clarke has set off for football grounds on some 3,500 occasions, in the UK alone. His canvas includes the national team, the mighty club teams like Manchester United, as well as the small or unheard of clubs, grounds, sets of fans, matches, moments. In this way Clarke fulfils William Wordsworth's maxim of comparing and treating the biggest and smallest events and features with the same level of interest.
Clarke began the football journey, in large-scale (as well as intimate) photographs in the wake of a series of international footballing disasters, culminating with the Hillsborough Disaster of 1989. Shocked that the beloved game could have come to this, he set about his unique celebration, with all its asides, visual commentaries and critiques. He was soon adopted by The Football Foundation as their war (equivalent) artist.



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