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Exhibition exploring Kentish narrative & myths through established legends, memories & experience

28/07/2024

Our catalogue is now finally out!🎉

Check out the link in our bio.

27/07/2024

Our intro and section panels for those who didn’t get the chance to visit us. The catalogue will be available soon in our bio!

22/07/2024

We’ve got a new interactive display🎉
Come view the exhibition and share your own stories with us…

21/07/2024

Curating the same exhibition at a different location can always be quite tricky. You have to consider space available, types of hang, studio size and much more…

Today the museum travelled to , where we had to consider such things during set up. What do you think of the new hang?

Come and check out the exhibition… now at Sandwich-Guildhall Museum. We are open this week 11-1pm and 2-4pm… see you there!

19/07/2024

Denys Eyer Bower came from a family of collectors, and spent most of his life collecting a lot of items - his favourite being Japanese art.

Despite working in corporate London, he was an eccentric character - often caught on the phone during work, trying to secure art from auctions. But what compelled him to be so interested in Japanese art?

Come have a look at his diary entry and some pictures of him with his collections in our museum.

14/07/2024

We have been taking down and packing up the museum, getting it ready to move to Sandwich-Guildhall Museum.

Only one more week until we go live at the new location. Make sure you mark your calendars for our opening on Monday, 22nd July!

10/07/2024

We are bringing you a podcast!

Our curator was at the recording studio yesterday, meeting some of the artists and curators who have worked with us.

Stay tuned to find out more about what’s coming out!

01/07/2024

We are very excited to announce that the exhibition will be going on tour🎉

After the end of the current display, Sandwich Guildhall Museum will be hosting us for a week between 22nd July and 26th July 2024. We hope to see more of you there!

Opening hours will be 10-1pm and 2-5pm.

29/06/2024

The Museum of Imagined Kent open TODAY 1-4pm - come and see these exhibits, and more! If you're attending GENFest today, we are just across campus in the Jarman building!

22/06/2024

A reminder that we're open today, and the next two Saturdays, from 1-4pm! Come and see the exhibition before we close on Saturday 6th July 🌠

12/06/2024

A monument that has stood, unchanging, through the passage of time. A real life Tardis?

Charles Dickens was so attached to this Swiss Chalet - as a space where he got inspired to write his amazing stories - that he had his Swiss-French friend specifically ship it from Switzerland to Rochester, when he moved here.

But have a look at the images of past and present of the Swiss Chalet - do you see any signs of weathering? Is it possible that the monument has in fact been travelling through time?

Photographs courtesy of Dickens’ Museum.

05/06/2024

Have you ever seen a ghost?

Photographs from the early 1900s show two ghosts in Canterbury Cathedral. The first slide is the ghost of Thomas Beckett, murdered in the Cathedral in 1170, and still haunting its halls.

The second ghost is Nell Cook, a servant who poisoned her master but eventually got her comeuppance, as detailed in the Ingoldsby Legends. Some say she's just a fictional character, but that doesn't explain her ghostly outline on the Cathedral walls...

We will be open weekdays 1-4pm for the next two weeks, so come and check if you believe what you're seeing!

Photographs courtesy of Canterbury Cathedral archives.

31/05/2024

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending, using gold to piece ceramics back together to give them new value and greater meaning.

Here, Sadie Hennessy has turned the tradition on its head to give us the hilarious Kentish Krap Kintsugi! The plates have lost their original form, and the Kentish cottages are somewhat obscured.

When you piece something back together, you often end up with different results. What does that mean in the context of the museum, when history is pieced together?

🎨Kentish Krap Kintsugi, 2024

30/05/2024

Next up, from our museum’s amazing folklore section, is artist Sonia McNally. Her work ‘Euphrosyne and the Hearty Spring’ is based around the Greek traders who sailed up the Medway River a long time ago, bringing with them ‘Euphrosyne’ their goddess of joy and mirth.

Sonia’s creative process is very intriguing - using tarot readings and energies to guide her path and reveal inspirations for her to use in her storytelling.

The story itself focuses on the nymphs in River Medway and the Greek goddess Euphrosyne, which you can read (or listen to on the special mermaid phone) when you come visit us.

The exhibition will continue to remain open weekdays 1-4pm. If you haven’t done so already, come check out this and other mysterious works!

29/05/2024

We've loved seeing the reaction to Going Underground, the brilliant fibre sculpture from Sara Trillo.

Based on the ancient and mysterious Dene holes of Kent, where strange shaped chambers were carved out of chalk, this piece makes you feel like you're there, looking into the depths of one.

What will you find down there?

The Museum of Imagined Kent is still open weekdays 1-4pm, so come up if you haven't already!

28/05/2024

The next piece to get the spotlight is Chisato Tamabayashi 's beautiful pop-up book, Airborne!

Our Japanese section explores the different meanings of 'translation', and this is one of our pieces which considers the idea of a river crossing as a form of translation.

Could this be the River Medway flowing across these pages?

🎨 Airborne, 2011

27/05/2024

Our amazing curators, Natasha Viegas and Polly Andrews, deep in conversation.

The Museum of Imagined Kent exhibition will continue to be open on weekdays 1-4pm. Come visit us at Studio 3 Gallery, Jarman Building, Canterbury CT2 7UG.

25/05/2024

Henry Moore moved to Burcroft, Kent just before the second war. Living in a modern bungalow - rather than his previous cottage - he was inspired now more than ever before. Moore described his new garden as encouraging his interest in making sculptures for natural landscapes.

Moore also enjoyed the possibilities of printmaking, and installed a printing press in his studio at Perry Green later on in his life.

Look at the first artwork - this facsimile reproduction is closer to the real thing he painted, because the print retained his use of vibrant colours better than the original.

🎨 Drawing for Sculpture: Two Women, 1939
Three Female Figures, c. 1950

Address

Studio 3 Gallery, Jarman Building, University Of
Canterbury
CT27UG

Website

https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/studio3gallery/

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