Join us for a gallery talk in conversation with Jennifer Vanderpool, the artist behind our current exhibition Bread and Roses – Welbeck’s Untold Stories and Bryony Bond, Director of the Harley Foundation.
Jennifer Vanderpool is a multidisciplinary artist exploring communities shaped by industry. For her exhibition at the Harley Gallery, she worked with former miners and Welbeck residents, layering archival photographs, objects and interviews with imagery from Welbeck Abbey to create immersive, floor‑to‑ceiling collages.
What drives these long‑term, community‑led projects? How are archival images and personal histories turned into installations? Join us to see the collages up close and hear about Jennifer’s research, process and the stories behind Bread and Roses – Welbeck’s Untold Stories.
Jennifer Vanderpool
A native of the Mahoning Valley in northeast Ohio, now working in Los Angeles, Jennifer Vanderpool is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and writer.
Through her social art practice, she values questioning equity issues, investigating the working class, and working-class labour. Her practice emerged after she embraced her disinvested hometown of Youngstown, Ohio. Her Ukrainian immigrant family’s stories serve as a creative foundation to explore the lives of other manual, industrial, and agricultural labourers and their communities.
Vanderpool has exhibited solo shows at museums and galleries in the U.S., Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Ukraine, Russia, and Vietnam. In 2021 Vanderpool was awarded a Fulbright Artist Fellowship to explore the connections between the Midwest USA and the North of England.
