The Library at Elsinore is the title of an installation work by Tom Phillips which will be the centrepiece of an exhibition at Shandy Hall opening on 21st September 2008. Also included in the exhibition will be treated skulls, works on the theme of books and texts and six new pages from Tom Phillips’s treated book A Humument. To learn more about these works go to the Online Resources links on the right. On this page you will be able to watch the making of new version of Page 62 from A Humument from start to finish. You can also see interpretations of Page 62 by Year 12 and 13 students from four different schools and these will also feature in the exhibition. Access earlier postings from the list on the right. You can also sign up for regular updates of new postings by subscribing to the RSS feed at the foot of the page.

Thursday 25 September 2008

Upton Hall School

Last Wednesday we were excited to receive the first packet of student pages, from Upton Hall School in Birkenhead. This was a groundbreaking moment in the history of A Humument as a new medium was introduced. All nine pupils had taken a needle and thread to their pages and embroidered them, one approach that Tom Phillips has yet to try. Quite a few of the pages took a romantic theme, not out of keeping with the text that appears on page 62, and there was also imaginative use of textural components making some pages three dimensional. Ruth Sherlock worked with the theme of the Library at Elsinore in her Hamlet page and Catherine Almond was thinking about Les Miserables in her page about flowers. Laura Heatlie's Paris page was an elegant composition and Rachel O Donnell's page about woodland at night, atmospheric. Siobhan Dunn's More Matter stood out, managing to achieve two different three dimensional spaces within one flat page!
All of the work was named except Hunting Scenes above, please leave a comment to tell us who you are.


Francesca Sciamarella

















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