Soul to Sole Exhibition, Croome

Very excited to have been commissioned by the National Trust for this project for which I'm going to be making a film to be projected over a pair of specially handmade boots. I've been researching a woman called Sarah Gellert who was a third housemaid at Croome in the 1860's. Born in Hammersmith, London c. 1805 and once the wife of a 'Receiving Officer' and mother to Emily; she left her family in Brackley, Northants and, after a visit back to the place where she originated with 'no occupation', came to work at Croome, where in 1868 she was paid £1 to return home. Sadly by 1871 she was 'Chargeable to Northampton Justices' and was residing in the District Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Powick, Worcs. I was at Croome yesterday and having shared some of Sarah's footsteps, couldn't help trying to imagine what life might have been like for Sarah during her time there...