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 […]
August 21, 2015
A community walk to the Abbots Mill Project, an eco showcase in the heart of Canterbury. Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. The feeling or look of the map now seems to be establishing itself; one of my roles in its making has been to somehow make all the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
August 21, 2015
Made through a series of open workshops at the Beaney. Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. The second workshop coincided with another event at the Beaney that day and it was busy. I don’t remember a point during the day where it wasn’t being worked on. It was so […]
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 […]
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 […]