Close Distance
Caroline Broadhead, Nic Sandiland and Angela Woodhouse
8 March – 1 May 2017
Wollaton Hall, Prospect Room
Artists Caroline Broadhead, Nic Sandiland and Angela Woodhouse have taken inspiration from Wollaton Hall’s history and inhabitants, exploring such details as 17th century embroidered costume belonging to the Middleton family who once lived in the Hall, and the doors that separated the kitchens and servants’ quarters from the family rooms upstairs. Sandiland and Woodhouse have worked with image, sound, and movement to create a series of intimate film works that are integrated with Broadhead’s reinvented found objects.
Illuminate, Nottingham Museums’ Young Arts Collective, have documented the making of Close Distance. Illuminate members Amber Burbridge, Kate Leatham, Mary Strickson, Kirsty Law, Meegan Worcester, Monika Saganowska, Holly Jackson and Lucia Rizzo worked with lens based artist Ben Harriott to create a series of short films. These can be seen at Wollaton Hall during the Close Distance exhibition along with embroidered costume from the museum’s Middleton loan collection, which has inspired the artists.
Close Distance is commissioned by Nottingham City Museums and funded by Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts. The exhibition has been made in collaboration with dancers Martina Conti, Kristian Tirsgaard, Vanio Papadelli, and Alice Labant. It is part of Dance4’s Nottdance festival, which took place between 8–12 March.
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