In celebration of Lowry’s 25th anniversary, esteemed writer Jeanette Winterson OBE will deliver the 2025 edition of the returning L.S. Lowry Lecture, Lifelines, promising a personal and profound perspective on the artist’s view of his own world and ours.
Born in Manchester, Winterson grew up in a family defined by the roiling industry captured in Lowry’s greatest works. Her birth mother was a factory machinist, making overcoats for Marks & Spencer, while her father worked in a factory for over fifty years from the age of 14, pausing only to fight in the Second World War. In Winterson’s words: ‘He was scarred, fit, misshapen, proud. He was a working man. Who was going to paint the likes of him in his machine-stamped life?…Lowry.’
This year’s L.S. Lowry Lecture is part of the Lowry Turns 25 programme, which features an inspiring line-up of unmissable events, celebrations of iconic art, family-friendly activities and more, curated to honour the ethos of creativity, opportunity and accessibility that has defined Salford’s world-renowned theatre for a quarter of a century.
Book tickets to Lifelines: The L.S. Lowry Lecture below.
Sat 26 Apr, 8pm, Lowry, Pier 8, Salford Quays, Salford, M50 3AZ, £5
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- Words:
- Wolf McFarlane
- Published on:
- Wed 2 Apr 2025
