Due to restrictions as a result of the Covid 19 Pandemic we are unable to have a printed copy of the trail available for visitors while walking around the museum. As a result there will be a large version available at the Museum reception to photograph and view via your phone or you can download … Continue reading Paper Trail Exhibition – Download the exhibition information
Paper Trail: Ruth Geldard
One of my earliest memories is of sucking my thumb while cradling a piece of Royal blue silk to my nose, breathing its exotic mustiness. I wouldn’t sleep without it and clung on until it was a tiny shred of its former self. The former self being a large, men’s handkerchief fashioned from World War … Continue reading Paper Trail: Ruth Geldard
07:28 1st July
On the 6th July 2018 we launched Appletye and as we approach our second anniversary we have been looking back on how and why we formed. The origins of Appletye can be traced back to a project called ‘From Wasteland to Wasteland’. Following a visit to the Lochnagar Crater on the Somme Battlefields in 2015 … Continue reading 07:28 1st July
Paper Trail: 1961 by Dan Thompson
Yuri Gagarin There are more years between us and Yuri Gagarin's first orbit than there were between his launch and the Wright Brothers first flight. A Soviet pilot, Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space, orbiting the Earth in Vostok 1 in 1961. This is a very simple pencil drawing of him, … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1961 by Dan Thompson
Paper Trail Exhibition – New dates
25th August 2020 - 27th February 2021 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 … Continue reading Paper Trail Exhibition – New dates
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
