Art of Memory
who we are
Art of Memory specialises in the production of media the delivery of digitisation services to the heritage and cultural sector.
Sarah Beecham is an art historian who originally trained as a Fine Artist, who brings a specialist knowledge and interest in working with curators and collections.
We have been in the business since the 1980s and during that time have worked with many varied and interesting clients.
The services we provide have changed over the years but our core focus is based on interpretive media and narrative content.
contact us:-
by phone +44 (0)1386 841496
by email sarah@artofmemory.co.uk
what we do
• Interpretation: kiosks. video, audio and podcasts
• Interactives: DVDs, CDs and websites
* Research, project management and educational programmes
• Digitisation/scanning and treatment/retouching
Interpretation: kiosks, video, audio & podcasts
Designing interfaces and producing content for specialist collections.
Clients include:-
Royal Academy of Arts
Cheltenham Museum & Art Gallery
V&A
Corning Museum of Glass, New York
Gordon Russell Museum
Court Barn
This movie is an example from our on-going involvment with the RA which centres around their own collection and its display in the recently refurbished Fine Rooms.
Peter Freeth, the RA Schools Professor of Printing, demonstrated Mezzotint printing in order to elucidate Turner’s ‘Liber Studiorum’.
2003
Interactives, DVDs, CDs & Websites
Design and production of interactive products for varying formats and outputs.
Clients include:-
Wolseley: Sustainable Building Center
Percival David Foundation
Taylor & Francis Publishers
Reed Elsevier
Campden BRI
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Our involvement with the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art included most aspects of our work.
We digitised 5x4 transparencies of the entire collection, and produced:-
• a bespoke Collections Management System
• an interactive kiosk
• a website
2000-8
Research, project management & educational programmes
This range of services is a bridge between arts and software technologies...
Clients include:-
University of Warwick
Kelmscott Manor
Opera North
Open Society Institute
An interview with theatre director, Tim Supple, which formed part of an EU Research Project working for Opera North.
We used their production of Magic Flute to provide illustrative material for the project and as a background for interview material elucidating what was involved in an opera’s production and what was relevant about opera to a contemporary audience.
2003
Digitisation/scanning & treatment/retouching
We offer a specialist service of image digitisation for specialist collections, these are
usually related to kiosk or website use.
Clients include:-
Palace of Westminster
Royal Academy of Arts
Corinium Museum
We have recently undertaken the re-touching, optimisation and re-sizing of a representative selection of images from the Palace of Westminster’s collection.
2008