Hepworth Wakefield surveys Stanley Spencer

The first major survey in 15 years of the British artist Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) opens at the Hepworth Wakefield this month. Of Angels and Dirt (24 June-5 October) marks the 125th anniversary of Spencers birth and includes a number of his excruciatingly honest self-portraits, his monumental Shipbuilding on the Clyde series made during the Second World War and reunites, for the first time in 35 years, four of the five Empire Marketing Board (1929) works. It also includes a sketchbook of the