Representing Re-formation

A new video screen for Representing Re-formation has been created by Andrew Williams, Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Space Research Centre, University of Leicester.

It employs the 3D laser scan of the monuments of Thomas Howard, 3^rd Duke of Norfolk, and Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, both in St. Michael’s, Framlingham, Suffolk, as the basis of an artistic re-imaging.

Both monuments were originally designed to stand in the Cluniac Priory Church in Thetford

The video can be seen as a part of the 'Thetford's Lost Tudor Sculptures' Exhibition at the Ancient House, Museum, Thetford, Norfolk until the end of March 2014 (information provided below).




Still images from the video

 





Funders and Organisations involved in the project.



Thetford’s Lost Tudor Sculptures

ANCIENT HOUSE MUSEUM,THETFORD, NORFOLK

On until 29 March 2014

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, planned two elaborate tombs for Thetford Priory. One tomb was for himself, the second was for Henry VIII’s illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond. However, the tombs were never finished.

After Thetford Priory was closed some parts of the monuments remained in the Priory, others went to Framlingham where Thomas Howard was buried in 1554.

In the 19th century two of these pieces were discovered in Thetford and donated to the British Museum. In the 1930s more fragments were excavated.

Today, researchers have tried to reconstruct what the tombs should have looked like, using fragments from archaeological excavations, 16th century manuscripts, 3D laser scanning and computer aided design software.

This exhibition reunites all these pieces - bringing together loans from the British Museum and English Heritage for the first time - and attempts to realise the sculptors’ original designs for Thetford’s Lost Tudor Sculptures.

Visitors to the displays can also see films, models, interactives and portraits which set the scene all displayed within the Ancient House, a Tudor timber framed building from the period. The extensive ruins of Thetford Priory, an English Heritage site, are a short walk from the Museum.