August 26, 2015
In 1632 Cornelius Johnson was King Charles I’s official ‘picture-drawer’ and a peer of Anthony Van Dyck (the most famous artist in his day). He was an incredibly talented artist but was pushed into the background by the arrival of Van Dyck. Johnson has subsequently to be relegated as an obscurity of British Art. That […]
January 08, 2016
Halla Hannesdottir is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. Hello there, today I am writing from my hometown of Reykjavik, Iceland and this will be my last blog post about my residency at the Beaney. Those three months went by so quickly – but I tried my best to see the […]
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 […]
July 10, 2015
Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. Not the March just gone, the year before, that will be 2014 we had amazing floods and the river Stour and large swathes of lowland areas in Kent were flooded for several weeks. I now realise these low-lying areas I had trouble navigating […]
October 27, 2014
Something very special is happening at The Beaney this Christmas. Artists in residence, Holder and Lamoon, are taking over our Christmas tree to create a visual Intriguerium* of a display, inspired by objects in the collections. As well as being a sumptuous delight for the senses, each decoration will be thought provoking, intriguing and have […]
June 03, 2020
Creating Heritage: A diary during Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Part Eleven
June 16, 2019
The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge continues to develop and expand its award-winning Health and Wellbeing programme as part of an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. As part of this agenda The Beaney has completed a groundbreaking 18 month long volunteer project, designed specifically for students affected by debilitating anxiety. Made possible by […]
September 10, 2015
10th post – Aug 31s This is my final blog post, the last of my map/travelogue explorations, bringing my residency at the Beaney in Canterbury to an end. Actually I think it is the beginning of my explorations really, the start of an inner journey of some kind. Some kind of exploration into map making […]
October 05, 2016
The latest blog from Daniel Tollady, Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. This September marks the tenth anniversary of the first time that I had ever walked into the Beaney. It was 2006 and I had just started my BA in Interior Architecture at the University for the Creative Arts. Our first project was called Enclosure and […]
August 26, 2016
The latest blog from Adam De Ville, Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. My residency is coming to an end so I thought I’d go out with not one, not two, but three installations! I have been exploring how the Beaney’s collection of artefacts make me feel and what associations and memories they trigger, related […]
April 10, 2015
Throughout the duration of our popular Enid Blyton exhibition we have been inviting children to enter our Beaney Blyton Story Competition, with three age groups in for the chance of winning some exclusive Blyton-themed prizes. The Under 5s were asked to write a few words about What Noddy did at The Beaney or draw a […]
November 05, 2015
Halla Hannesdottir is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. This week I´d like to share with you some of my drawings of chairs and furniture pieces that I have been sketching during my residency at the Beaney. Some of them are drawn as possible collectors pieces to use for display, others […]