Dr Stacey Clapperton

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Curator: Parliament Art Collection at UK Parliament | Modern British Art | #WW1 and #WW2 Art | Northern | Views my own

A hand holding a purple and white business card that reads: ‘UK Parliament, Dr Stacey Clapperton, Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection’
A screenshot of the ‘Collecting Prime Ministers: Political Commemoratives’ webpage on the UK Parliament Heritage Collections. The header image includes three characterful teapots where the faces are the faces of former prime ministers are the lids, and the spout and handles are their arms.
A full length and life size statue of Clement Attlee in bronze. He stands with his left hand in his blazer pocket and his right hand is raised as if he is about to point and ask a question
A full length statue of a middle aged man carved in marble. The man is Herbert Henry Asquith and he is wearing grand and traditional robes, with his arms to his side and is looking straight ahead. He stands on top of a plinth with the name ‘ASQUITH’ carved in the middle. To his left is an arched doorway also carved in stone.
A Margaret Thatcher Jack-in-the-box with an exaggerated papier mache head
A photograph of a teapot where the lid depicts the face of a grumpy old man
Screenshot of a word document with conference notes alongside a slide from a PowerPoint showing the interior of a new gallery hang at the Brooklyn Museum
A detail of an oil painting showing three figures wearing overalls and hard hats, picking through the rubble of a destroyed House of Commons chamber following a bomb attack in 1941.
A large crowd gathered in front of a painting within St Stephen’s Hall
An exhibition panel titled ‘War Leader 1940-1945’ showing a cartoon of a group of men marching men, all rolling their sleeves up, led by Churchill
A photograph of a gallery in the V&A with the title board ‘Laughing Matters: The State of a Nation’
A photo of Lisa standing in front of the display case which features the photograph of Jack Ashley. She is smiling at the camera and standing in an ornately decorated room.