A million people have seen the touring exhibition The Homes of Football, and a million more have been to see the permanent collection. Now, after ten years as "The Homes of Football", the galleries at Lake Road, Ambleside are to be rebranded as "Football Photography & The World". To celebrate this change, every month there will be three new shows by Stuart Clarke across all three disciplines: a football show, a photography show and a world show. The whole programme will last until November and entrance to all shows is free. What's On
Football exhibition 1st – 25 Feb
"Auld Lang v Syne : Dumfrieshire derby " by Stuart Clarke
The recent Dumfrieshire derbies pitted the two most romantic towns on the Robbie Burns trail against each for the first time, friendlies apart. The one town seems to be heading the one way - relegation and dwindling crowds - whilst the other smaller town towards Glasgow, to take on the very power base of Scottish football. The pictures portray the people and the places – with more than a wink towards The Doonhamers!.
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Photography exhibition 1st – 25 Feb
"Ava our daughter turns 1 for the first time" by Stuart Clarke with Angela Martin
"I created The Homes of Football and spend most of the time thinking creative thoughts. Something so beautiful borne of you, with truly a life of its own, is spellbinding. Ava was borne on the 11th of the 11th 2005 & I only got to meet her for the first time on Christmas Eve, a year later. I have some catching up to do. I always claimed that the essence of photography is & will always be the family portrait on the mantelpiece. Ava’s future family-tree could involve thousands and go on for centuries." (Stuart Clarke)
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The World exhibition 1st – 25 Feb
"St.Maria's Walk : Burning Ground" by Stuart Clarke
Every summer this century, and possibly increasingly so, Portugal & south-western Europe has become scorched ground and almost desert, with fire upon fire ravaging farms and hillsides. The Algarve, traditionally 'The Garden', is fast becoming an extension of the Sahara. Clarke weaves an environmental fairy-tale around the journey of a (nude) nun returning to the home she left behind as a child.
Football exhibition March 1-31st
“FA Cup”
The FA Cup offers a day, a round, a competition and a Final which captures the public imagination – and not only that of the English. There is no cup like it anywhere in the World. It is a time for drama and emotion, it is the day when the underdog may have its day, an occasion for banana skins and for dressing-up in silly garb, with fingers crossed.
March Photography exhibition March 1-31st
“Cumbria Surrounded”
Clarke hitched, walked and took public transport to put together a pictorial ode to the people and the place around abouts where he lives. Cumbria / The Lake District has been photographed many times before but too often the human dynamic is disregarded. This love affair on film criss-crosses every part of the territory, even pushing its boundaries, to the point of creating a dreamscape.
The World exhibition March 1-31st
“Music Festival”
All along i was dreaming of being in England, or in Scotland or Wales or even Northern Ireland but particularly in my native England, in the summertime with green grass everywhere. In reality in a muddied field somewhere hard found, dark clouds rolling in. Finding myself side by side with a complete stranger. Who I nevertheless felt I knew. We’d shared the struggle and this was our reward. Mystical stuff. But it would be lying to say the festival felt anything less. Subsequent exhibitions for 2007 April 4–29
April Football : “Gretna” (the football club is leading the marriage town merry dance towards the premiership)
April Photography : “The Road Home, Ambleside to Armathwaite” (a take from the Cumbria Surrounded epic).
April The World : “Trinidad & Tobago” (smallest country ever to qualify for football’s World Cup Finals) May 2–28
May Football : “Hard Up? Uppies & Downies raw football” (the sexiest, most savage ball game in the World)?
May Photography : “Gretna Green” (the football club nears the altar of ‘no going back to small-time now’)
May The World : “That Human Footstep” (my people, my planet and all that) June 1–30
June Football : “Rift Valley Wanderers” (Africa invented mankind and now football is reinventing Africa)
June Photography : “Ava’s 2nd summer the1st time” (a photographer’s fascination with his photogenic daughter)
June The World : “South Africa hosting World Cup 2010” (is the country ready for it?) July 4–29
July Football : “Swiss and Austrian Stages for Euro 2008” (setting the scene on the next big tournament)
July Photography : “Tarn Taggers of The Frozen North” (that naked northern outdoor-swimming loose affiliation)
July The World : “Icelandia” (a place to cool off – a design for life for all of us) August 1–31
August Football : “3pm” (an even more venerable time of the day than 6.06, with all hope intact)
August Photography : “Besides Ourselves Beside The Sea” (what we do on our summer hols when no football)
August The World : “Music Festival” (a 2nd take on this fashion for outdoors living, featuring new festivals) | 
