28th March - 27th Sept 2020 Maidstone Museum St. Faith's Street Maidstone Kent ME14 1LH The Paper Trail exhibition will take the form of a trail of selected artworks made as a result of our project and placed amongst Maidstone Museum's collections. In 2018 we gave 100 pieces of heritage paper spanning over 100 years … Continue reading Paper Trail Exhibition 2020
Print Works Meet Up 16th November 2019
Sat 16th November 2.00 - 4.00pm Margate Caves (the Community Room) Northdown road Cliftonville CT9 1FG Did you work at The Thanet Press, Martell Press, or one of the Isle of Thanet's other print works? Print Works is a project exploring the archives from The Thanet Press and Martell Press. We are inviting staff … Continue reading Print Works Meet Up 16th November 2019
Paper Trail: 1969 by Paul Hazelton
Paper Moon One of my earliest memories was hearing the moon landing on the radio with my brother - I was 7. Around this time I was also making little drawings on small pieces of paper, invariably depicting life under rocks, below the ocean and out in space. I had, from an early age, a … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1969 by Paul Hazelton
Paper Trail: 1940 by Sonia Boué
Convoy My family’s evasion of a Nazi roundup of Spanish republican exiles at Anguoulême on August 20th, 1940, to the Mauthausen camp, is my focus as I build my Paper Trail response. It’s suddenly gone from a tiny sketch (inkjet print on tracing paper which I’ve clipped to the 1940 paper sample) to an ambitious … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1940 by Sonia Boué
Paper Trail: 2001 by Kate Murdoch
2001 2001 will always be remembered for the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives that day and the repercussions are still being felt throughout the world. For me, 2001 was also a year of enormous personal loss. My father died in the May of that year. As someone … Continue reading Paper Trail: 2001 by Kate Murdoch
Paper Trail: 1982 by Clare Dales
In 1982, the Commodore 64 Computer became the highest-selling single computer model of all time. It was used in offices and made computers popular in the home a common thing, to play games, type letters and formed the beginnings of emails as a form of communication. Time Magazine made Man of The Year - The … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1982 by Clare Dales
Paper Trail: 1994 by Julia Rogers
Like the back of my hand. The paper was burnt into ashes and mixed to make a printing ink. I applied this to the back of my wedding hand (the one with wedding ring finger) '94 was the year I met my husband and this year, the year of making this piece represents 25 years … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1994 by Julia Rogers
