Monday – Friday 

In 1944 Powell and Pressburger’s- A Canterbury Tale - unearthed and revealed an archaeology of elements forming a complex and magical genius locus (spirit of place) which echoes across our difficult present in 2024.

The exhibition additionally draws Inspiration, and its title from Jacquetta Hawkes, archaeologist, author, and poetic thinker who, in her 1951 book, A Land sought to conjure Britain as: an entity and unity, in which past and present, nature and art appear all in one piece. A Land, as much affected by the creation of its poets and painters as by the changes of climate and vegetation.

The exhibition aims to reflect the magic of A Canterbury Tale as just such an entity – existing, in part, as Hawkes suggests it must, just beyond the threshold of intellectual comprehension and through a sense of enchantment.