The Art & Memory Collection - A National Collection of Contemporary Memorial Art:
After the successful completion of Art & Memory's launch exhibition, held in 2009, the 54 newly commissioned works have been re-located to their permanent homes and will open throughout 2010/11 at the following venues (dates will be posted when available):
- Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol
- Blair Castle, Perthshire, Scotland
- The Memorial Gardens, Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
- Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire
- Monnow Valley Arts Centre, Herefordshire
- Winterbourne Botanical Gardens, Birmingham
If you have a favourite work from the Art & Memory Collection and would like to know at which venue it will be permanently exhibited, please contact the charity for the latest information. NB The catalogue is still available at £6.50 (see below).
ART & MEMORY IN THE CHURCHYARD
30th May to 31st October
An exhibition in the churchyard of North Stoke, near Amberley, West Sussex
Twenty-one contemporary works on a memorial theme and a newly commissioned Garden of Remembrance memorial by Gary Breeze.
The 64 page fully illustrated book, Art & Memory in the Churchyard, is now available. This includes a catalogue of all the works with Artists' Statements on each work, a Foreword by Libby Purves, articles on Good Design, Epitaphs, the Art & Craft of Lettercarving and much more. There is also a fully illustrated section addressing the current situation with churchyard rules and regulations - useful for the general public as well as for those clergy having care of churchyards.
£8.50 (including £2.00 p & p) direct from The Memorial Arts Charity (or from Amberley Stores)
ISBN 9-780951 - 571163
PUBLICATIONS
Touchstone
Later this year the charity will be launching the first edition of the annual journal TOUCHSTONE. This will be published to launch The Friends of The Memorial Arts Charity.
DVD - The Work of The Memorial Arts Charity
An excellent short 15 minute DVD is available on the work of the charity and the inspiration behind the creation of The Art & Memory Collection. The DVD includes interviews with Letter carvers and also an interview with Harriet Frazer, Charity Director and Christine Oestreicher, co - founder of The Art & Memory Collection. £6.50 (incl p&p).
DVD - TOUCH - touch workshops for blind and partially sighted children.
An educational and inspiring DVD for parents and professionals. All too often, for blind and Visually Impaired children, touching - that gateway into the world they live in – is limited to the demands of the practical, to the necessary learning of name and function. But what if children are encouraged simply... to touch? To explore different materials as texture, to experience scale, weight, form, representation, abstraction, making... and beauty?
In September 2009 the Memorial Arts Charity held workshops where young people with sight problems were able to encounter new shapes, textures and ideas through touch. A professional film of the event was made by Charlotte Trench (funded by The David Whitbread Trust and the Trusthouse Charitable Foundation) showing what we did and how, with the hope that others will want to find out more and pick up on some of the ideas for use in the home or classroom.
