A video i found about Polly’s beautiful White Chalk dress!

Thanks for posting! Great to see this dress up close (and I'm glad it's being treated with the care it deserves).

Brilliant, thank you! As an ex-museum curator I find that lovely. And wonderful that it's going on display later in the year.

That's weird. I can't see a thing in the OP. Had to quote it in order to reveal that there was a link and then copy and paste it into youtube to see it.

Yes_No_Maybe_So wrote:That's weird. I can't see a thing in the OP. Had to quote it in order to reveal that there was a link and then copy and paste it into youtube to see it.

oof sorry about that! i wonder if anyone else had that issue

50ftTeclo wrote:

Yes_No_Maybe_So wrote:That's weird. I can't see a thing in the OP. Had to quote it in order to reveal that there was a link and then copy and paste it into youtube to see it.

oof sorry about that! i wonder if anyone else had that issue

I have the same issue. YouTube links don't show anymore since a few months (I don't remember exactly when). I found the video above by googling. Weird that this happens with some and not with everyone.

blackngreen19 wrote:Weird that this happens with some and not with everyone.

I wonder if it's browser dependent? I can "see" the youtube links just fine and they work using Chrome 84.0.4147.89 on a windows 10 (ver 1909) PC. Also ok using Opera 69.0.3686.77 on the same PC.

50ftTeclo wrote:A video i found about Polly’s beautiful White Chalk dress!

Heres the link
https://youtu.be/MLbn3auMLPQ?t=720

Polly Guitar on display at the V&A https://www.artdependence.com/articles/ ... ay-31-may/
I Wish she still played this one!
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/vi ... popup=true



The other belongs to Paul Stanley.

https://archive.is/Ytm7z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7WwuEF1PRo
Order an Object - youtube

Romario11 wrote:Polly Guitar on display at the V&A https://www.artdependence.com/articles/ ... ay-31-may/
I Wish she still played this one!

Most excellent!
I went to their website to see what other PJH stuff they had. Oddly, the guitar didn't come up, but they have lots of costumes.
Also, they have a painting (but no picture) which sounds most intriguing - has anyone come across this before?

Canvas painting; self portraits by PJ Harvey, Rob Ellis and Mick Harvey. Painted in 2003 in Portugal.
The painting is a portrait depicting PJ Harvey on the left hand side holding an acoustic guitar, with Mick Harvey on the right hand side holding an electric guitar, and Rob Ellis in the background holding a pair of drum sticks with his arms raised above his head. The painting uses mostly primary colours and black.

The final thing worth noting is that you can make an appointment to view items from the collection. Very tempting ...

new blog post on PJ's archive https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/projects/bey ... 5576171875







https://www.georgewrightphotography.co. ... gallery#52

https://www.instagram.com/georgewright8294/

Thank you for sharing, Romario, very interesting! The letter from Jeff Buckley, wow. “Memphis on Valentine’s Day.” I wonder how much of personal correspondence etc. she donated to the Museum.

This part stood out to me as well:

A music archive can also offer something more intimate: a peek behind the curtain of an artist’s creative process. Harvey’s album Let England Shake (2011), a haunting meditation on war and national identity, is a good example. The archive reveals the extraordinary amount of research that went into the album: books on war and conflict, research into army marches, and a beautifully framed portrait of British nurse Edith Cavell that stood on Harvey’s piano as she worked. But the archive also sheds light on how Harvey brought the album to life on stage. A set of cue cards with ‘points of concentration’, given to Harvey by theatre director Ian Rickson, were used during the Let England Shake tour as prompts before taking to the stage. They might be small in size, but speak volumes about the intentionality and depth that Harvey brought to every performance.

I found these cue cards fascinating, I wish other items were available to see online as well!

TheNightingale wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 7:09 pmThis part stood out to me as well:

A music archive can also offer something more intimate: a peek behind the curtain of an artist’s creative process. Harvey’s album Let England Shake (2011), a haunting meditation on war and national identity, is a good example. The archive reveals the extraordinary amount of research that went into the album: books on war and conflict, research into army marches, and a beautifully framed portrait of British nurse Edith Cavell that stood on Harvey’s piano as she worked.

Just realized that the photo of Edith Cavell mentioned here as inspiration for Let England Shake is shown in the first shot of the video for “When Under Ether”:



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