Appetite and Brampton Museum & Art Gallery are so excited to present Road Movie, a film created by Simon Warner in response to a brief for an artist to use the Brampton Museum & Art Gallery’s 2D collection, of paintings, photographs, prints and drawings, as inspiration to produce a new work.
Simon became fascinated with Newcastle-under-Lyme’s past as a key location on the London – Carlisle stagecoach route. By accessing the museum’s 2D collection online, by researching and visiting Newcastle-under-Lyme, he pieced together this largely forgotten history of the market town. His film showcases the town today, but also evokes its past, interweaving the museum’s collection with his specially filmed re-enactment of the coaching route through the town. An atmospheric sound track accompanies the film by singer songwriter David Boulton.
Appetite and the Brampton Museum & Art Gallery are working together to offer opportunities to artists, curators and audiences to have access to the collection and to create new exhibitions or artworks as a response. The 2D artist residency which Simon Warner undertook was the first of these and coincided with the Museum being closed to visitors, due to the improvement building works taking place.
To view more of the museum’s 2D collection online visit Staffordshire Pastrack.
The Museum plans to begin reopening from mid January 2022. Find out more about the Museum here.
