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Artist to transform Red Lodge Museum's bed chamber
Release date:
Mon, 08/08/2011
Artist, Clare Thornton, will transform the Tudor Red Lodge Museum’s bedchamber on Saturday, September 3, by premiering the site-specific “Unfurl” performance installation.
This new contemporary performance is the first of its kind to be staged within the building often described as one of Bristol’s hidden treasures because of its magnificent Tudor rooms. One of these rooms will become an artwork itself, during a performance installation lasting three hours and involving over one kilometre of red satin ribbon.
Clare Thornton sets the scene: “A Tudor Lodge, the opulent setting for a tableau poised to “Unfurl”. Pleats of delicate cloth, lengths of blood red ribbon, a model sits waiting for his painter. As the scene unfolds, the artist’s material obscures our view.”
Karin Walton, Curator of the Red Lodge, commented: “We are delighted to be able to host Clare Thornton’s latest work. It is exciting to be able to present a place of such historic significance in a completely new light. We hope it will encourage new and old visitors to engage in fresh interpretations of a space we’re proud of.”
Entry is free and provides a unique opportunity to see the Red Lodge Museum’s bedchamber as never before.
It will be of particular interest to anyone who plans to visit the Tudor Red Lodge Museum as part of the Bristol Doors Open weekend (the following Saturday 10 September), where a photographic print documenting the performance, will be exhibited. Photographer, Zoe Childerley, has been invited to capture a moment from this visually stunning event, as it unfolds.
Author: Helen Hewitt, tel. 0117 922 2646.
