From the Dreamland Newsletter:-
"DREAMLAND LOVES ARCHITECTURE!
The Dreamland Trust is delighted to open this year’s RIBA Love Architecture Festival, 21-30 June 2013, in Margate with an exhibition celebrating the work of designer and colourist, Walpole Champneys (1879-1961), whose mural and decorative schemes adorned the interior of the 1934/35 Grade II* listed Dreamland Cinema and Sunshine Café, Margate.
A Cinematic Vision: Walpole Champneys and the Lost Dreamland Mural opens at 11am-5pm on Saturday 22 and runs until Sunday 30 June at the Pie Factory Gallery, Broad Street, Margate CT9 1EW and is one of a number of events being organised by The Dreamland Trust as part of the RIBA Love Architecture Festival.
Walpole Champneys was the commissioned Interior Consultant for the Dreamland Cinema building. He worked closely with architects, Julian Leathart and F W Grainger, at a time when sumptuous interior decoration of cinema buildings was the norm; the Dreamland Cinema building is an important example of that contemporary mood. In the Swedish Grace style, the work has both art deco and constructivist influences and reflects the immersive experience of cinema-going as an ‘other-world’ event of the 1920s and 30s."
This information came from the Dreamland newsletter.
Co-curated by artist Dawn Cole and designers Lindsay Marsden and Jenny Duff, the exhibition will feature original works, images and documents from the Champneys Collection, including Walpole Champneys’ studies for decorative panels within the Dreamland Cinema, alongside archive images of the Sunshine Café and the 40ft mural painted by Walpole Champneys (images supplied by RIBA). The question remains as to whether this mural does still exist, hidden beneath layers of paint just waiting to be rediscovered once restoration of the Cinema building begins…"
Perhaps the people behind the newsletter could put this information on the forum as I'm sure that a lot of people look to this for the latest news and would like to support these events!