by Plowden & Smith | Mar 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
On 7th March some familiar faces were shown on the local BBC One News’ programme, Look East. The wooden statue Samson, who for many years stood outside the house of the Seventeenth Century Lord Mayor of Norwich, was the focus of a special report. Interviews with Jenny...
by Plowden & Smith | Feb 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s not everyday we get a visit from ITV News… As part of an Anglia News report on Samson, the early 17th Century wooden statuette we have spent three years restoring, ITV’s Emma Hutchinson and Jamie Spellar visited the studio to meet Samson...
by Plowden & Smith | Feb 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
For almost 350 years, he stood guard outside one of Norwich’s most prestigious buildings.. Installed outside the house of Christopher Jay, Mayor of Norwich in 1657, the carved wooden atlantid (a male figure that functions as a supporting column statue) Samson could...
by Plowden & Smith | Oct 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Softer: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace is the visually exciting and thought-provoking collaboration between American artist Jenny Holzer and the Blenheim Art Foundation. Set within the sumptuous interiors of Blenheim Palace, the eighteenth Century seat of the Dukes...
by Plowden & Smith | Oct 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Postgraduate researcher Caroline Ikin reviews London’s The Garden Museum in this month’s ‘Museums Journal’. To find out more about our conservation, mount making and installation work on this exhibition do take a look at our Garden Museum case...
by Plowden & Smith | Jul 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hailes Abbey near Winchcombe has now reopened, following a spectacular refurbishment programme that has utterly transformed the museum.During the redevelopment of the museum, Kevin Smith – Plowden & Smith’s Managing Director and Head of Exhibitions...
