{"id":319,"date":"2015-04-19T15:20:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T14:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wordpress\/?p=319"},"modified":"2016-01-02T22:58:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T22:58:15","slug":"marton-museum-represented-in-ground-breaking-exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Marton Museum represented in ground-breaking exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/case3_xsm_bw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-338 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/case3_xsm_bw-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/case3_xsm_bw-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/case3_xsm_bw-1024x646.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exhibition Case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many of you will remember seeing Faye&#8217;s wonderful exhibition &#8220;Children Then And Now: Marton Museum Reinterpreted by Artist Faye Claridge&#8221; which took place as part of The Marton Rural Traditions Festival held in tandem with the The Heritage Open Days event at Marton Museum last September. \u00a0 Faye photographed village children with artefacts from the Museum to create a contrast with a similar project carried out in the nineteenth century by Benjamin Stone who was recording dying country traditions and whose collection is held in the Library of Birmingham. Some of Faye&#8217;s photographs have now moved to the Library of Birmingham, together with some of the artefacts from the Museum and can be seen on Floor 2 until 31 May 2015. More of the pictures are also exhibited at Compton Verney, where Faye has created a stunning 5-metre corn dolly &#8220;The Kern Baby&#8221; which can be seen in the Capability Brown grounds until December. Next May this will tour to the Library of Birmingham to link with the Benjamin Stone Collection that inspired Faye, alongside a larger exhibition of her photographs from Marton, prior to a high profile exhibition in London. Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund the photographs will also form part of Marton Museum\u2019s permanent collection. A display at the Library of Birmingham currently tells Kern Baby\u2019s story ahead of the sculpture touring there next year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/small_kernbaby_installed1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-340 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/small_kernbaby_installed1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/small_kernbaby_installed1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/small_kernbaby_installed1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kern Baby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The project has been a great success in raising the profile of our Museum and creating innovative ways for families to access the collection. Faye\u2019s work is increasingly in demand, being discussed at conferences and \u00a0requested for exhibitions, so we\u2019re hoping interest in the Museum will grow even further as a result.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sml_horn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-341 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sml_horn-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" align=\"alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sml_horn-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sml_horn-1024x996.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sml_horn.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Exhibt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You are strongly recommended to visit Birmingham Library and Compton Verney to see Faye&#8217;s work for yourselves. \u00a0Both destinations are well worth a trip in their own rights if you haven&#8217;t already been.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comptonverney.org.uk\">www.comptonverney.org.uk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayeclaridge.co.uk\">www.fayeclaridge.co.uk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryofbirmingham.com\">www.libraryofbirmingham.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will remember seeing Faye&#8217;s wonderful exhibition &#8220;Children Then And Now: Marton Museum Reinterpreted by Artist Faye Claridge&#8221; which took place as part of The Marton Rural Traditions Festival held in tandem with the The Heritage Open Days event at Marton Museum last September. \u00a0 Faye photographed village children with artefacts from the &#8230; <a title=\"Marton Museum represented in ground-breaking exhibitions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/?p=319\" aria-label=\"Read more about Marton Museum represented in ground-breaking exhibitions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martonvillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}