My Place

Over a 12-month period, museum volunteer Katy Bennie worked with local artists and community groups – including eight primary schools – to create pop-art style artworks based on objects from our collection and historic buildings around the town.

Bringing Newton Abbot’s past to life

Each of the 11 pieces depicts a different historic event connected to Newton Abbot, and together they form a timeline of the town’s past. To create each group piece, individual drawings were digitally combined into a unified whole by skilled local artists.

In 2019, the old St Leonard’s Church was still a building site in the process of becoming Newton’s Place. The pop-art panels were printed at large scale and affixed to the hoardings surrounding the site, transforming a construction zone into a colourful historical display.

Explore the timeline

See the gallery to view each artwork and learn more about different periods in Newton Abbot's history.

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