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Diana Puntar (H±R-A) Acorn 1, dimensions - 28cmx28cm, lino print, 2025
Art Tour
Chimera (H±R-A) An Alternative Kingston Heritage Trail
24 May 2025 – 1 Nov 2025
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- Kingston University
- Knights Park
- Kingston Upon Thames
- KT1 2QJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Kingston BR / Surbiton BR
Chimera (H±R-A) Historical Re-Anachronism is an alternative heritage and sculpture trail around Kingston town centre by artist Diana Puntar. The trail features artworks that explore the transformation of historical objects, such as the Kingston Coronation Stone, into symbols of English heritage.
About
Locations including Kingston University’s Town House Library, Kingston Museum, Frederick W Paine Funeral Museum and All Saints Church. Puntar’s project places new sculptures within existing heritage sites and ongoing community engagement, to question the role of monuments in shaping collective memory and cultural identity.
Chimera (H±R-A) begins with a monumental sculptural piece in the entrance hall of Town House Library at Kingston University. The work presents a tableau with the Kingston Coronation Stone reemerging from its Neolithic bedrock, whilst a woolly mammoth-like form slowly sinks into the landscape.
Further artworks can be found hidden throughout Kingston, alongside a number of existing heritage sites around the town. ‘Neolithic tools’ of questionable provenance appear within the display cases of the Kingston Museum, a series of ‘funerary talisman’ in the windows of The Frederick W Paine Funeral Museum, and a ‘neolithic relic’ inside All Saints Church.
