Animated Stills completed by Micheál O'Connell, under the direction of Lead Artist Peter Seddon.
Developed as part of a curatorial/historiographic/artist’s intervention around the painting 'Cromwell Opening the Coffin of Charles 1st' by Paul Delaroche, 1831 at Musée des Beaux Arts, Nimes, 15th November 2007 – 3rd February 2008.
Extract from text by Peter Seddon:
"This curatorial/artist’s intervention into the space of a major French regional museum, unlike [Seddon's] earlier work at Rochdale, provided an opportunity to work directly around a single major painting from mid 19th century French art, and to work with and within the site and gallery where it is permanently installed. This significantly increased the ambition behind my practice (called elsewhere mixed genre practice) and although simpler and less packed than the Rochdale show it was far more complex in its iconography, in the way it dealt with the vicissitudes of political history and historiography in both France and England, and its treatment of regicide and republicanism.
After my initial approach Pascal Trarieux, the chief curator of the Musée des Beaux Arts at Nimes, commissioned the work. Other significant collaborators and contributors to the exhibition were Barry Barker, artist/curator and director of the CCVA and the artist Micheál O'Connell who worked under my direction on the animations used in the show..."
