{"id":1809,"date":"2014-12-16T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T11:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/?page_id=1809"},"modified":"2022-10-26T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T09:03:50","slug":"croome-redefined","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/?page_id=1809","title":{"rendered":"Croome Redefined"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u2018Sole to Soul\u2019 Croome Redefined \u2013 Croome Court, National Trust<\/h3>\n

I worked as a creative resident at the National Trust\u2019s \u2018Croome Redefined\u2019 project. This was a four-year project when the house\u00a0 underwent repair and restoration as well as involving creative practitioners to work and respond to the heritage site.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2018Soul to Sole\u2019 was an intricate installation where creative practitioners were given the brief to encapsulate a character from Croome’s past, exploring themes of \u2018loss and survival\u2019 within a pair of shoes.<\/p>\n

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With decades of history, Croome still holds an echo of its former self and everyone who has ever lived there. The two micro installations were sited within the shoe-rack housed in the basement of Croome Court.<\/p>\n

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As a creative resident I worked collaboratively with shoe designer Maud van den Broecke<\/a>, who made the leather shoe constructions for my pieces combining glass, ceramics and printmaking to materialise my responses.<\/p>\n

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Wendy and George Hogarth were the inspiration for my contribution to the \u2018Soul to Sole\u2019 project. George Hogarth was a fighter pilot in the RAF during World War II and Wendy was in the Wrens working as a radio mechanic. They met and married whilst they were both based in Croome.<\/p>\n

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My works explore the relationship between fictitious and factual history. I met Wendy Hogarth and recorded her lucid memories of her experiences at Croome with her future husband, George. These conversations provided a way of imagining the day-to-day domestic challenges of living at Croome during World War II, when it was the centre for research into radar and a resting place for fighter jet pilots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Our hot water bottles at bedtime were used for washing in the morning, and the loos were flushed when necessary with a bucket of water. (My husband who was a pilot living in 7 Site remembers his batman melting snow for shaving purposes). Once a week we were taken by transport, piling into the back of a naval lorry, to Malvern Wrennery for baths.\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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