February 24, 2016
Sonia Overall is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. Today I am drawn to the display of dolls houses and furniture in the Materials and Masters room. The bottom shelf of the cabinet is packed with household items, a bric-a-brac array of plates, serving dishes, cups, glasses, jugs, pots and pans and […]
May 15, 2022
Canterbury’s Museums and Galleries proudly announce the three early career artists and portrait sitters selected to create commissions celebrating the District’s diverse population. These commissions will be displayed at The Beaney as part of Mirror Mirror, an exhibition developed in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery as part of their National Skills Sharing Partnership Programme […]
December 14, 2016
The latest blog from Daniel Tollady, Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. I have become increasingly infatuated with the biofacts and geofacts that are on display in both the Masters and Materials room and the Colour and Camouflage room (biofacts being biological objects, and geofacts being geological objects). As I mentioned in my previous blog […]
August 14, 2015
Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. I believe maps to be important documents reflecting cultural interests and changing social attitudes and I also think the personality, the views and the interests of a person drawing a map must always indirectly leek out however precise and accurate the map is! […]
November 29, 2016
The latest blog from Daniel Tollady, Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. To coincide with Grayson Perry’s exhibition The Vanity of Small Differences, the Beaney launched their Cabinet of Small Differences as a companion piece that questions the role of objects and consumerism in today’s society. The cabinet showcases artefacts from a bygone age […]
November 07, 2014
As part of his job our Collections Manager, Craig Bowen, often transports fascinating historical artefacts between our stores and museums. In the past these have included items such as Zulu spears, priceless pendants, machine guns and a mummified cat. We’d like to bring you an exclusive sneak peek at some of these items before they […]
November 07, 2016
The latest blog from Daniel Tollady, Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. As part of my residency, Friday 14th October saw me hold my first live drawing event in the Beaney’s Learning Lab. By projecting footage of the Beaney onto the wall and drawing on top of that, I was able to create an image […]
October 10, 2016
When reading about the Canterbury Philosophical and Literary Institution (the institution that the Museums and Galleries are founded upon), I learnt that the collection once boasted a lock of Napoleon’s hair. Napoleon’s hair was being collected and traded from as early as the time of his exile in 1814 but as DNA profiling was not […]
July 08, 2015
Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. We have three solar farms near where I live, the first one is finished and I drove past it today and I may have seen sheep grazing under the rows and rows of silver panels, don’t quote me as this was out of […]
