Trevor Grimshaw
British artist (1947–2001)
Trevor Grimshaw (1947–2001) was an English artist whose main subject is the northern industrial town landscape as it used to be.
Life and work
Grimshaw was born in Hyde, Cheshire in 1947 and studied at the Stockport College of Art from 1963 to 1968. He worked in oils, charcoal and graphite, producing largely monochrome depictions of the industrial landscape of northern England.
Grimshaw had a longstanding interest in steam engines and trainspotting. He made several visits to the Woodham Brothers scrapyard at Barry in South Wales and photographed the steam locomotives stored there. In 1977 he published Stilled Life, a book containing 36 black-and-white photographs from the scrapyard.
He spent much of his working career at Manchester advertising agency Stowe Bowden Ltd.
Artistic career
Grimshaw exhibited in the UK and abroad, including at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy during the 1970s. His work was held in private collections including those of L. S. Lowry, Edward Heath, the Warburton family and Gerald Kaufman, and in public collections including the Tate, Salford Art Gallery, Stockport Art Gallery and Bury Art Gallery.
He illustrated The Singing Street, a book of poems by Mike Harding, and executed limited edition lithographs for Christie's Contemporary Art.
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