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Perth Now
30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Catherine, Princess of Wales curates museum display
Catherine, Princess of Wales has personally curated a new museum display. The 43-year-old princess - who is the Royal Patron of the V+A - visited the new V+A East Storehouse in London last month and was given a behind-the-scenes tour by the facility's curatorial team to find out more about why objects are collected and how they are cared for and displayed. She then got to work with staff to select items from the museum's collections for her own "mini display" called Makers and Creators, which will be exhibited until early next year. Among the items chosen by the princess was a watercolour painting by Peter Rabbit creator Beatrix Potter - a distant relative of Catherine through her great-great-great uncle - and a childhood photograph album belonging to the author's father, Rupert Potter. The display also includes a costume from The Royal Ballet's 1960 production of The Sleeping Beauty, which was worn by Diana Vere and designed bty Oliver Messel, a mid-20th century sculpture of hands by Clemence Dane, and George Henry Boughton's oil painting titled A Woman Holding a Mirror and a Rose. Finally, Catherine also selected a hand-quilted bedcover made in Wales in the 1830s, a 15th-century earthenware tile, a Qing dynasty porcelain vase from China and a Morris + Co furnishing screen from the mid-1880s. The Makers and Creators exhibit curated by the princess - who has children Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and seven-year-old Prince Louis with husband Prince William - is intended to show how historic objects can influence a vast array of creative fields, including art, fashion, design and film, in the modern day. It will be unveiled at the museum on Wednesday (30.07.25) and is one of over 100 displays that have been presented in the sides and ends of storage racking inside the facility. V+A East Storehouse puts items that would otherwise be in storage on public display and includes more than 250,000 objects, 350,000 books and 1,000 special archives.
Telegraph
30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Princess of Wales displays relative Beatrix Potter's art in V&A exhibit
The Princess of Wales has showcased her distant relative Beatrix Potter's artwork in her own 'mini display' at a new V&A facility. The Princess – related to the Peter Rabbit creator through her great-great-great uncle – chose one of the author's watercolour paintings, depicting a forest glade, for a personally curated display at V&A East Storehouse. She also selected a childhood photograph album belonging to the author's father, Rupert Potter, alongside several other objects for the display, entitled Makers and Creators, at the east London museum. It is not the first time the Princess has shown a fondness for the works of the children's writer. Prince George's first birthday had a Beatrix Potter theme, and his nursery room was reportedly decorated with characters from her books. In 2014, The Telegraph reported that the Princess's great-great-great uncle was Dr Arthur Lupton, a Leeds University pro-chancellor whose brother-in-law, Lord Ashton, the First Baron Ashton of Hyde, was a first cousin of Potter. Potter, who died in 1943 at the age of 77, wrote 35 books, including The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which was an instant success after being picked up in 1902 by British children's publisher Frederick Warne & Co. For the new display, to be unveiled on Wednesday, the Princess worked with the V&A's curatorial team to select objects from across the museum's vast collections. It brings together objects chosen by the Princess to celebrate past makers and creators and is intended to show how historic objects can influence fashion, design, film, art and creativity in the modern day. Her display also includes a costume worn by Diana Vere in The Royal Ballet's 1960 production of The Sleeping Beauty, which was designed by Oliver Messel, one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century. It also features a sculpture of hands by Clemence Dane from the mid-20th century and an oil painting entitled A Woman Holding a Mirror and a Rose by George Henry Boughton, an Anglo-American artist. The display is rounded out by a hand-quilted bedcover made in Wales between 1830 and 1840, a Morris & Co furnishing screen from the mid-1880s, a Qing dynasty porcelain vase from Jingdezhen, China, and a 15th-century earthenware tile. The Princess's selection is one of over 100 displays that have been exhibited in the sides and ends of storage racking inside the museum, and will be on view until early next year. The V&A East Storehouse, described as 'the nation's Victorian attic' by one art critic, includes 250,000 objects, 350,000 books and 1,000 special archives, with displays designed to reduce barriers and cabinets. It puts items that would otherwise be in storage on public display. The Princess, who is the V&A Royal Patron, visited V&A East Storehouse last month and was given a behind-the-scenes tour by the V&A's curatorial team, finding out more about why objects are collected, and how they are cared for, conserved and displayed.
