We welcome our friend Neal Potter to the museum for a special talk plus Q&A. "From Pit Painting to Global Exhibition,” follows his career journey from his formative years in a Derbyshire mining village, through art school and on to travelling the world designing international exhibitions and museums.

Neal recalls his journey – the charity work – the lucky breaks – the sleepless nights – the lost exhibits - the crazy clients - the passionate clients - a constant desire to be creative and, the need to stay financially viable.

Neal is a film-inspired designer of both Kent MOMI and the original Museum of the Moving Image, on London's Southbank. Ticket includes complimentary glass of wine or tea/coffee. 

There will be a free screening of Neal's favourite film, The Hunt for Red October (production designer, Terence Marsh) on Friday 5th, at 6.30pm (see EVENTS page). 

In conjunction with our new exhibition, Terence Marsh & Production Design, Kent MOMI is delighted to welcome art directors / production designers Fleur Whitlock and Grenville Horner to the museum.

Fleur is an art director and production designer with over thirty years’ experience in the film and TV industry including classic TV shows such as Inspector Morse, Love Hurts, Kavanagh QC, The Lakes, Ruth Rendell Mysteries and Poirot.  She is presently Visiting Lecturer at the London Film School, the London Film Academy, the Central Film School and Goldsmith’s College.  Fleur is a member of the British Film Designers Guild (BFDG), Women in Film and Television (WFTV) & the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Communications and Theatre Union (BECTU).

Grenville is an Emmy-award winning film and television Production Designer best known for his work on The League of Gentlemen (1999), Jane Eyre (2006) and Blackpool (2004).  He gained a B.A. (Hons) in Interior Design at Birmingham College of Art & Design, and then went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London, where he graduated with a Masters Degree in Interior/Environmental Design.

Fleur and Grenville’s talk will give an overview on the history of Production Design, and an inside look at both how the art department functions and how the designer’s vision is brought to the screen, using examples of their own “world building” to illustrate.  She will cover the development of Production Design since Blade Runner (1982); how digital technology supports the design process through drawings, models and set building, and how CGI and LED screens work to supplement the physical world.

The talk will be followed by an open Q&A.  Admission includes complimentary glass of wine, tea or coffee.