Solo Show: ‘Paintings By Andy Cropper’ at Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield. 10th October - 15th, November 2025.

19 Sept

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Cupola Contemporary Art

A solo show of paintings by Andy Cropper, from haunting nocturnes to rarely shown early works.

Preview Friday 10th October 7.30pm

Open 11th October - 15th November 2025
Monday to Saturday: 10.00am - 6.00pm
Closed Sunday

Artist Talk: Thursday 23rd October 7.30pm

Artist Talk & Meet The Artist Mondays -
Andy is doing a free short talk followed by a Q&A on Thursday 23rd October, 7:30pm at Cupola Gallery. Booking appreciated but not required. Call 0114 2852665 to reserve a place.

In addition, the artist is going to be at Cupola every Monday until the end of the show 12-4pm to chat about his practice or the show or even do some painting whilst he's here...
Come and say 'Hi'. All welcome.

Since 2009, Andy Cropper has been mapping Sheffield in paint, from the charged stillness of twilight to the deep, cinematic tones of the nocturne. Best known for his atmospheric night time cityscapes, this exhibition also unveils earlier works rarely or never shown before. Together, they reveal the evolution of his eye and craft over more than a decade and a half. The paintings form a portrait of a city across time, light, and memory: streets that hum with presence, buildings that hold their breath, and Sheffield both familiar and transformed.

Andy Cropper is a Sheffield based painter whose work is held in the permanent collection of Museums Sheffield at Weston Park Museum. Since 2009, his practice has explored the city’s streets, buildings and margins. In 2015 his focus became firmly rooted in the hours between twilight and deep night. Born in Bristol in the early 1970s and raised in Blackpool, he studied painting at Sheffield Hallam University in the 1990s and has remained in the city ever since.

Best known for his atmospheric nocturnes, Cropper’s work is informed by kenopsia, the eerie, hyper empty atmosphere of places usually alive with people, and by the uncanny shift when the familiar becomes unfamiliar. His realist approach resists photographic exactness, instead reconstructing fleeting moments into textured, resonant images.

His work has been exhibited widely, including at Cupola Contemporary Art, 20:21 Visual Arts Centre, Mall Galleries, The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, The Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, Bloc Projects and Fronteer Gallery. It appears in Folk Horror Revival Urban Wyrd – 2: Spirits of Place (Wyrd Harvest Press, ed. Andy Paciorek), where he sits proudly alongside luminaries including Will Self and Iain Sinclair. He will feature in the third heat of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2026, airing January to February 2026.

Cupola Contemporary Art
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Sheffield
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If you’re discovering Andy’s work for the first time, you might like to step back one chapter to his 2024 exhibition A Time of Stasis, a body of night‑time cityscapes shaped by the stillness and unease of recent years, and rooted in the streets around his home. You can explore it here before walking into the Cupola 2025 show.

Exposed Magazine have featured his show at Cupola Contemporary Art in their 'Artist Spotlight'.

Andy spoke about his influences, thoughts and themes and how they find their way into his paintings.

Read it here: https://www.exposedmagazine.co.uk/arts-culture/artist-spotlight-andy-cropper/

The show at Cupola Contemporary Art was in Saturday October 25th’s The Yorkshire Post Magazine… Crikey!

Read the article here: link

Artist Talk Thursday 23rd of October:
“What a lovely evening! Thank you so much to everyone who came along tonight to my talk at Cupola Contemporary Art . I hope you enjoyed mine and Karen Sherwood’s back and forth, and I hope I answered everyone's questions in a way that made sense and gave a bit of extra understanding around my work and process. 👍👍👍”