Lloyd Robilliard and Peter Brehaut award
Congratulations to Lloyd Robilliard and Peter Brehaut who have been awarded this year’s prize for “Outstanding Contribution to Preserving Guernsey’s Heritage” by National Trust of Guernsey.
Lloyd and Peter’s exhibitions will be familiar to many visitors to National Trust of Guernsey sites in times gone by. From the Tomato Industry exhibition, housed at The Folk and Costume Museum, Saumarez Park for many years, to ad hoc exhibitions detailing the Island’s late 1800 – early 1900 grape export industry, they have always delivered a showcase with extraordinary attention to detail, drawn from a personally curated and treasured store of artefacts, achieved over many years of collection.
What we love, most of all – and always to be able to share with you – is the enthusiasm and new ideas that Lloyd and Peter bring to any exhibition. Their attention to detail and passion for the exact, is second to none. No stone is left unturned, and the eventual result is something that is quite literally, goose-bumpy for its ability to take you back to the exact moment in time that we might remember or re-imagine a moment that we can only read about.
“The shop front c. 1950/60/70 presented at Lé Viaër Marchi on Monday 7th July was quite extraordinary. Everything I’d retained from my child’s-eye memory of the late 60's and 70's, was brought to life with precise, beautifully excruciating detail; as though we were time-warped from 2025 to a moment, as a small child, at a village or local shop - always cycled or walked to.
I could almost smell the washing powder. I could certainly taste the Fruit Salad’s without unwrapping them … and then, as an older person, worried if my fillings might fall out if I chewed them!
Quite something and an exhibition I shall never, ever forget. Thank you for taking me back.”
