New views

The Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum collection is generally used for historical research. But over the last two academic years it has provided mini residencies to Norwich University of the Arts Fine Art students and tutors. Their creative responses to the collection are displayed here, alongside some of the objects that inspired them.

Supported by The Norwich Freemen’s Charity

New Views was a project to encourage a broader use of the Regimental Museum collection, beyond historical research and family history.  Participants from Norwich University of the Arts worked directly with the collection and curator,  visiting as many times as they wished, exploring the reserve collection, finding the objects, archives and stories that most resonated or engaged them.

Their creative responses were very varied, and examples of their artwork are displayed in the Shirehall study centre. The ‘Tibet in Norwich’ website was created by one of the students through this project.

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Eve Harriss – Her (2025)

Object: Diaries, votive and religious objects. Screenprint on Canaletto paper. These screenprints focus on the relationship between the language of religion and the language of love using entries from the diary of Lieutenant Frederick Lynes, stationed in Mesopotamia...
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Rebecca Williams – And I would kill for you if you needed it x (2025)

Object: Personal artefacts.  Oil and tissue on board.  Responding to personal artefacts in the collections of the Norfolk Regimental Museum proved to be both challenging and rewarding. Rebecca was inspired by the warmth and honesty expressed by brothers Sydney and...
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Rebecca Bex Clements – Correspondence (2025)

Objects: Matchboxes and letters. Mixed media on paper Correspondence concerning missing soldiers during First World War, together with the many matchboxes that are in the archives were the inspiration for this artwork. Small calling cards have been created, with...
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Pippa Knox – Lace Armour (2025)

Object: Lace handkerchiefs.  Pippa is a mixed media artist, often inspired by the macabre. She started this project to challenge herself and her practice through new experience. She is aware that her work can sometimes be disturbing to view, and this set her the task...
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Daniel Tyhurst – Covenants with Death (2024)

Objects: Original photographs and books. Mixed media, found objects, ink and oil paint. ‘Covenants with Death’ contains illustrations which are immediate reactions to the photographs printed in the original 1938 publication of the same name. The format of a book was...
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Lisa Brand – Hidden Memories Exposed (2025)

Objects: Letters, battlefield artefects. Natural mulberry paper, cheesecloth, acrylic, rice paper This piece is inspired by the study of letters between soldiers and their loved ones and research into the war artist Paul Nash. The artist created a fictional character,...
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Mae Warner – Mrs Skippon’s Missing Son (2024)

Objects: Letters and correspondence. Cartridge paper, debossed. Inspired by a collection of correspondence from families of soldiers to Captain Hammond during the First World War, these letters speak of the grief and desperation of individuals affected by the...
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Talia Sweed – Thank God I am at Present III (2024)

Objects: Letters. Oil on denim scraps, 50 x 40cm For this project I looked into the Smith Brothers’ letters and created imagery in response. My own practice is surrealism based and I’d recently been looking into war artist Paul Nash; I decided to incorporate elements...
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Qi ruo xuan Na – Woodbine Cigarette Box (2025)

Objects: Letters and parcels. Wool on fabric and foam ‘Woodbine Cigarette Box’ is inspired by a cache of letters addressed to Captain J Hammond during the First World War. Most of the letters are from mothers or wives asking for information about their missing sons or...
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Grant Larson – The Bandsman (2024)

Objects: Personal and regimental effects. Oil on board, weathered Private Samuel Stamp was in the 6th Battalion from 1932. This battalion was one of three of the Royal Norfolk Regiment sent to Singapore in 1942 and Samuel subsequently became a Far East Prisoner of...
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How to Access the Collection

Visit the Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum

We have displays at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, it is free to UEA, NUA, ACC Norwich and City College students.

Take a look on-line.

You can search and view the archive and wider collection here - Search the collections - Museums Collections - Norfolk Museums Service

Explore the Tibetan material in the collection here: Home | Tibet In Norwich

You can do a basic search of the whole collection here Collections Search - Collections at norfolk.gov.uk

Talk to the Curator

For general enquiries and more complex searches it is best to email the Curator here. You will be able to make an appointment to view the reserve collection using this email as well.

The reserve collection is in The Castle Study Centre, Shirehall, Market Avenue, Norwich NR1 3JQ.

We look forward to seeing you!

Email: regimental.museum@norfolk.gov.uk