Museums
White Hart are experienced in using museum and gallery archive, together with new footage and interviews, to give context to an exhibition or event. You may already have a story and need us to turn it into an audio visual presentation or we can help research a topic to develop and collate a new perspective.
White Hart Director Director John Brooks has a particular interest in this type of work and we are fortunate to be able to call on the services of Roger Cucksey, a museum and art gallery professional with over 30 years collection management experience in public sector museums.
Working with Roger, White Hart has a strong association with Newport Museum and Art Gallery producing a series of video-based presentations to support exhibitions and events.
Iris Fox Collection
Using a combination of amateur footage, photographs, graphics and new material White Hart compiled a history of the collector Iris Fox to compliment a permanent exhibition of her ceramics.
Stanley Lewis
The chance discovery of a half finished wartime mural by Artist Stanley Lewis led to a fascinating documentary of his life, the mural and its restoration. The video supported an exhibition of his work.
Wartime Factory - To watch the video
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A celebrated portrait of a female worker in a munitions factory during WW11 was the starting point for an exhibition on life during that time. White Hart interviewed people who worked there and intercut their memories with a wartime film recorded at the factory. It was a wonderful project, which was shown at a well attended local event.
Director John Brooks
John Brooks graduated with a BA in Fine Art and during his BBC career produced a half hour radio documentary on his name sake William Penny Brookes, the true founder of the modern Olympics. As a freelance director he produced a half hour drama documentary on the Chartist Uprising in Monmouthshire for BBC World Service and recently conducted a series of interviews with elderly residents who remembered the Curre Estate before its demise over 50 years ago.
Roger Cucksey
Roger Cucksey has extensive experience in the preparation and presentation of museum resources for educational use. His expertise includes buying for public art collections with fine and decorative art and related social history collections of particular interest.
Research, documentation, presentation, conservation and storage advice can also be undertaken in conjunction with existing staff. His most recent work include a Home Front Recall project, made possible by the Big Lottery Fund, which facilitated research and the interviewing and filming of wartime factory workers for the production of a publication, DVD and dedicated website.
