Cass's research looks at how the Brontë Parsonage Museum has used contemporary art in this historic home within its displays. He is organising an exhibition of contemporary art inspired by the Brontës at Leeds College of Art, a show opening on 14 December 2012, entitled 'Wildness Between the Lines'. In connection with this, the Gallery is hosting a display in its Education Room called 'Visions of Angria: Creativity of the Brontës', which opens on 7 January 2013. This display will include original materials from Special Collections by the Brontë family, in particular texts relating to their children's fantasy world, Angria. These texts will be interpreted by students of illustration from Leeds College of Art, displayed alongside the historic materials.
What do you think of these sorts of pairings? Come let us know! Do the tour from Leeds College of Art and over to the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery (over to the Parsonage if you are REALLY keen!) and then tell us how well you think it works. Does it inspire you, or leave you cold?
If you want to get thinking even deeper about the Brontës, and how they have inspired creativity in later centuries in many ways, there will also be a free conference on 29 January 2013, entitled 'Re-Visioning the Brontës' - book your place online today!
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