Copying Cooper: Hidden Gems From The Cooper Gallery

The Culture Companions meet every week at Experience Barnsley. This year they have been researching and recreating paintings from our collections.

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Photographs from this project are on display on the wall outside the Sadler Room. A unique chance to see our paintings come to life, many of which are currently in storage and haven't been displayed in several years.

On display during gallery opening times. Click the images below to watch short videos

Culture Companions is a group for older people who experience social isolation and other barriers (such as bereavement, mental health, disability and poverty) to experiencing a full life. Activities are mostly themed around local heritage, the museum’s exhibitions and collections.

The group meets weekly, calling Experience Barnsley Museum ‘our second home’, undertaking a large variety of creative and activities:

· Art and craft

· Heritage sessions

· Collection projects

· Poetry and music

· Filmmaking

· Museum trips

· Wellbeing activities

 

Listen to members of the group in a special episode of the Barnsley Museums Natters podcast

Read more about the artwork in this ArtUK curation

On the left, five seniors act out a scene, with some in hats and one reading a newspaper. On the right, a classical painting shows men in old-fashioned clothes listening to a man reading a letter.
'Dans la Taverne (In the Tavern)' by Adolphe Lefevre

"If you have any problems, the best that you can do is join the Culture Companions and share a worry or two, learn a craft, have a laugh and a good moan, go home at the end of the day knowing you are not alone."

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