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A curator looking at textiles in London

...between 1948 and 1963. Research and display work RAMM was awarded Designation funding by the Arts Council in 2016 and this helped the museum to continue with its Discovering Worlds...

Two paintings discovered in archive

...Central School of Art and Design. However, her learning encompassed a love for weaving, vegetable dyeing, spinning etc. Married in 1948, Stanfield went with her botanist husband to Nigeria. She...

Boy in a Landscape (Portrait of Eric Verrico)

John Minton was an English painter and illustrator known for his eclectic style which combined elements of French and British Neo-Romanticism. His main theme is the young male figure...

Lime kiln and Foreshore

A landscape: in the right foreground a ruined brick tower (the kiln) overgrown with vegetation. On the left the foreshore - beach and sea. Much of Ackland’s work was produced...

Trio

In the clinical environment of the operating theatre Hepworth was limited to a sterilised notebook and pen. Only later, in the studio did she make her larger scale drawings. Typically...

Trade bar

Manillas were produced in their millions and imported to West Africa for over 350 years, primarily as currency, but also as a source of copper. It finally ceased as...

Wedding dress

Doreen Cheary wore this white silk wedding dress at St Davids Church Exeter in June 1948 for her marriage to Leslie Spencer. They had met while stationed in York...

Adze head

Prior to the availability of metal tools stone was the main domestic tool for carving. There were many distinctive styles made from volcanic stone such as basalt. Adzes...

Spear

Obsidian blade technology on this island group is over 4,000 years old. Obsidian sources were originally located on the islands of Poam, Mouk and Lou and was traded along...