I have been working on a proposal for Tatton Park, a country house south of Manchester with a great reputation for contemporary art. I won the chance to put forward a proposal for a piece of site specific art work telling the stories of the servant's at Tatton. Its part of a bigger project called Hidden Histories that is about the servant's lives rather than the grand family that they worked for.
My proposal uses this photogrpah as a starting point. its undated and unannotated so all these people are anonymous; we can make some educated guesses at to who some of them are but we will never know the majority;they weren considered 'important enough'. It will explore the 13 anonymous women in this photograph by looking at the repairs and laundrymarks on the household linen, and the inventory entries in household paperwork. the plan is for a bedcover and a 'mended sheet' as well as portraits of the women
Here is one of the samples.....I have been busy
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