September 10, 2015
Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. There’s a Grey Wagtail outside the window The annual rubber duck race was cancelled (due to excessive water weed) but rescheduled Where the Tour de France went I sat in this park hoping I would get this job and work in Canterbury (came […]
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 […]
July 01, 2016
The latest blog from Adam De Ville, Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. It’s a couple of days after my experiment playing birdsong at the miniatures collection. All the birds have flown now but the session proved very successful. Visitors shared their personal responses to the miniatures, and to my recorded birdsong from my garden. […]
April 21, 2017
The fifth in a series of blogs by Beaney Armchair Artist in residence, Kathleen Herbert. Whilst waiting for an elusive sunny day to start experimenting with the cyanotype process, I continued my research into Anna Atkins. What I have discovered and something that appears to be common with many female figures over the centuries is […]
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 […]
July 20, 2020
Over the last year, I have had numerous requests from my team for me to write my ‘Talking Heritage’ blog, and unfortunately I have told them that I was too busy each time. Now, following a week that is sure to go down in history, I have stopped and taken the time to reflect. My job […]
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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
