Simon Bartram Under the Vapour Trails
The North East artist and award-winning children’s author brings his provocative exhibition to Hartlepool Art Gallery.
Simon Bartram’s Under the Vapour Trails features paintings and drawings of post industrial men who, somewhat stereotypically, find their identities in the clothes they wear, the haircuts they sport and the football team they follow. They live in real and imaginary towns and cities that are intersected by rivers that flow east into the North Sea. Above them, the skies are intersected by the vapour trails of aeroplanes leaving for places far away.The painted men, however, always stay and, going forward, it is Simon’s ambition to look beyond their haircuts and hoodies and explore who they really are and how they fit into their changing environment.
Under the Vapour Trails exhibition runs from Saturday 29th January to Saturday 23rd April 2022.
Simon Bartram is represented by Arena Illustration.