Grundy Art Gallery is pleased to be working with the National Portrait Gallery on COMING HOME – a major project which sees the National Portrait Gallery lend portraits of iconic individuals to places across the UK with which they are most closely associated.
Born in Blackpool in 1959, musician Chris Lowe is co-founder of the Pet Shop Boys, the most successful duo in British pop history. You can find out more about this project at https://www.thegrundy.org/whats-on/single/coming-home/
To coincide with COMING HOME, we invited local artist Harry Clayton-Wright to take inspiration from the portrait of Chris Lowe and share his favourite Pet Shop Boys’ tracks. Harry talks about It’s A Sin, the recent Channel 4 programme that is named after an iconic Pet Shop Boys song. Harry made a brief appearance in the series as Patient Zero. He discusses a Liza Minnelli song taken from an album that was produced by The Pet Shop Boys. Harry also shares a special memory of seeing The Pet Shop Boys at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, which saw Chris Lowe coming home to play for local audiences.
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Harry Clayton-Wright is a performance artist, writer and radical creator from Blackpool whose work spans theatre, installation, zine and film. Harry’s debut solo theatre show Sex Education premiered in 2017 winning the LGBTQ award at Brighton Fringe Festival and was nominated for a Total Theatre Award (Emerging Artist/Company) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019. Harry was also selected as one of British Council’s Artists to Watch as part of the Edinburgh Showcase 2019. You can find out more about Harry’s work at hcw.horse/about/