It was an idea inspired by a hit movie based in America's mid-west. Works of art which capture the changing landscape of Stockport have been blown up in size for all to see instead of being hidden in a gallery or private collection. Artist Helen Clapcott has been painting the town where she was raised from the age of ten for decades. Her work can now sell in galleries for tens of thousands of pounds.
The 2017 film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, a dark comedy starring Frances McDormand, was the trigger for presenting her work in different way. In the movie a mother rents three billboards and emblazons them with black lettering to comment on the failure police to solve a disturbing crime.
