Throughout the year we host regular art and craft exhibitions and other events in the cow barn gallery, workshop studio and Great Barn in our ancient courtyard. These buildings have been sympathetically renovated to create bright gallery spaces while retaining their original rustic and historic features
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'A View Across the Downs – A Prospect of Julliberrie Grave 1722, 1944 and 2024’
This exhibition is part of the Canterbury Festival. It showcases the paintings, drawings, small sculptures and curated archive images by Bryan Hawkins, Canterbury Archaeological Trust’s Artist in Residence. The combined works evoke and celebrate the age old fascination of Julliberrie Down above Chilham.
In 1722, Julliberrie Down provided antiquarian William Stukeley with a view and prospect that evoked Britain’s history of Druids, Roman invasion, past grandeur, and prehistoric mystery.
In the summer of 1943, the view and its prospect provided Michael Powell with material for the 1944 film A Canterbury Tale and its poetical and magical vision.
Today this view, across the Downs though obscured by time, still retains its poetry and fascination.
