CARNIVALÉ
Venue: 19 Lower Borough Walls ● BA1 1QU ● see map for info
Exhibition: 22 May to 7 June ● 24/7 (Viewed through shop window)
A single Anubis Schoolboy traveled to Venice in search of carnival, circus, fairground.
Venice was dark. His trip was documented and upon his return he searched for the ghosts of Victorian performers. Here are a handful of their stories collected into an installation.
Heather Tweed, Artist, Writer, researcher.
Wanda Opalinska is an actress, writer and researcher.
Alison Young, Chair of the British Music Hall Society and researcher/writer.
All three have a particular interest in 19th Century theatre and entertainment.
Curated by Heather Tweed
Heather Tweed honed her creative skillset with a fine art degree from Exeter, specialising in Fine Art Ceramics. She has wide experience exhibiting across the UK and beyond, working with Artists groups and curating projects.
Heather enjoys mooching vintage books and scouring Archives. Her research skills are well honed and she has an obsessive ability to squirrel out tiny nuggets of information as well as pulling together the lost threads of scattered stories recreating the colourful lives of 19th century performers and quirky characters.
She is a member of the Society of Authors and has researched and written about a number of performers with two books published. Heather is currently writing a book unveiling the secret life of a 19th century acrobat.
www.heathertweed.net
https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
Bluesky @heathertweed
