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Lowry is a theatre and gallery complex at Salford Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is named after the early 20th-century painter L. S. Lowry , known for his paintings of industrial scenes in North West England .
The Lowry Academy (formerly Harrop Fold School) is a coeducational secondary school located in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, [2] which serves pupils from Little Hulton and Walkden. The school came to prominence from being featured in the Educating...
Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA (/ ˈ l aʊ r i / LAO-ree; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist.His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury, Greater Manchester (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as Salford and its vicinity.
The Lowry Theatre, designed by Michael Wilford. Early in the planning stages for redevelopment of Salford Quays in 1988, potential was recognised for a landmark arts venue, the Salford Quays Centre for the Performing Arts, which became known as the Lowry Project in 1994. It had secured £64 million in funding by 22 February 1996. [2]
The chief executive of the Lowry gallery said the painting is ‘more of a piece of social history than it is a painting of a football match’. Lowry painting should stay free to view given ...
The Salford art gallery formerly held over 400 artworks by the Salford-born painter L. S. Lowry which had been collected since 1930, but these were transferred to The Lowry, a new purpose-built gallery which opened in Salford Quays in 2000. [6] Selected works on display
The painting was loaned to Salford Museum and Art Gallery and later moved to public display at The Lowry arts centre in Salford. [8] [17] [18] In 2022 Going to the Match (1953) was purchased by The Lowry at auction, at Christie's in London, for £7.8 million with financial support from the Law Family charitable foundation. The 1928 painting was ...
The Salford Quays lift bridge, also known as the Salford Quays Millennium footbridge or the Lowry bridge, is a 91.2-metre (299 ft) long vertical lift bridge spanning the Manchester Ship Canal between Salford and Trafford in Greater Manchester, England.