| Description | Stour Valley collection reflect the legacy of arts development and cultural regeneration in East Kent and will be kept alongside the Drew Gallery Projects archive. The specificity of these collection is of relevance in the specific milieu of arts development and infrastructure within East Kent and the specific rural-urban identity of the region (exemplified regionally in distinctive approaches adopted by coastal towns in the region such as Whitstable, Margate and Folkestone). Stour Valley Arts was a public arts organization, directed by Sandra Drew MBE, in King’s Wood, an ancient woodland in Challock, Ashford, Kent. Operated by the Forestry Commission. It commissioned a range of public art works by high profile artists such as Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy. The records reflect the administration and information generated through its actives, such as proposals, publicity, educational material, funding bids, trustee minutes, business plans, photographs and documentation on the construction of exhibition.
The records reflect the administration and information generated through its actives, such as proposals, publicity, educational material, funding bids, trustee minutes, business plans, photographs and documentation on the construction of exhibition. |
| AdminHistory | Sandra Drew MBE was the Director of this project and when Stour Valley Arts was disestablished in 2015 she contacted Terry Perk (then Senior Fine Art Lecturer, Canterbury) offering these records and history to UCA.
The Stour Valley material was stored in Rochester in the library. In 2019 we appraised approximately 49 boxes, reducing it down to these 10 boxes. The collection was moved in July 2023 to Canterbury.
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