This year’s Spender scholar, Richard Gaskill, has been exploring the interwoven layers of emotion that lie between sports, spectacles and the Boltonians who observe these events.

This exhibition focuses on the relationship and interactions between observer and the various cultural and sporting spectacles in the borough. Richard Gaskill’s interpretation of Humphrey Spender's ‘Worktown’ forms a new and important pictorial contribution to the historic record of Bolton.