{"id":46,"date":"2022-01-18T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/?p=46"},"modified":"2022-01-18T17:17:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:17:20","slug":"finding-foundlings-at-the-foundling-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/museums-and-archives\/finding-foundlings-at-the-foundling-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundling Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Finding Foundlings<br>at the Foundling Museum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-6d5a3fbcc901cf039aa8d3113d849156\">Artist Residency at the Foundling Museum supported by the Arts &amp; Humanities Research Council, the Heritage Consortium and Sheffield Hallam University. This was undertaken as part of her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/phd\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"107\">PhD<\/a> practice-based research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rachel exhibited at the museum in October 2016, artworks included:&nbsp;<em>Kept Within the Bounds, the Anthem, an Interruption,&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>the March.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition included an evening of talks from Caro Howell, Alison Duke, Dr. Helen Wickstead, and Dr. Becky Shaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><div id=\"metaslider-id-181\" style=\"max-width: 2560px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-24-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-181 ml-slider nav-hidden\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_181\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_181\">\n            <ul aria-live=\"polite\" class=\"slides\">\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-185 ms-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kept-Within-The-Bounds_1-copy.jpg\" height=\"1920\" width=\"2560\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-181 slide-185\" title=\"Kept Within The Bounds_1 copy\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-186 ms-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kept-Within-The-Bounds_2-copy.jpg\" height=\"1920\" width=\"2560\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-181 slide-186\" title=\"Kept Within The Bounds_2 copy\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-187 ms-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kept-Within-The-Bounds_3-copy.jpg\" height=\"1920\" width=\"2560\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-181 slide-187\" title=\"Kept Within The Bounds_3 copy\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kept Within The Bounds<br>The Painting Gallery, the Foundling Museum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>During workshop sessions with contemporary children in the museum, Rachel employed methods from performance practice to allow the children to construct a foundling &#8216;character&#8217;. After role-play, the children painted their foundling. Each portrait is a painting of two people, the child artist and the imagined foundling child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The children\u2019s paintings were integrated into the installation <em>Kept Within the Bounds<\/em>, which included sound and mirrored the floorplan of the Foundling Hospital. Rachel purposefully positioned the work in the Painting Gallery, below the portraits of the hospital donors, to draw attention to the men who have been remembered and the children who had been forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9334-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9334-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9334-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9334-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9334-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9334-1568x1045.jpg 1568w, http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9334.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Anthem<br>Handel&#8217;s Room, the Foundling Museum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Children from the Putney Treblemakers learn Handel\u2019s \u201cFoundling Hospital Anthem\u201d, exhibited as part of the artist residency closing event at the Foundling Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><div id=\"metaslider-id-191\" style=\"max-width: 1920px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-24-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-191 ml-slider nav-hidden nav-hidden\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_191\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_191\">\n            <ul aria-live=\"polite\" class=\"slides\">\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-198 ms-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1-scaled.jpg\" height=\"2560\" width=\"1920\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-191 slide-198\" title=\"1\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-199 ms-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2-scaled.jpg\" height=\"2560\" width=\"1920\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-191 slide-199\" title=\"2\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-200 ms-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3-scaled-1488x1984.jpg\" height=\"2560\" width=\"1920\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-191 slide-200\" title=\"3\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Interruption<br>The Foyer, the Foundling Museum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Children\u2019s voices &#8211; reading their foundling character&#8217;s names &#8211; echo in time with the Foundling Museum clocks, chiming on each quarter-hour. The work played on the idea that children should be seen and not heard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding Foundlingsat the Foundling Museum Artist Residency at the Foundling Museum supported by the Arts &amp; Humanities Research Council, the Heritage Consortium and Sheffield Hallam University. This was undertaken as part of her PhD practice-based research. Rachel exhibited at the museum in October 2016, artworks included:&nbsp;Kept Within the Bounds, the Anthem, an Interruption,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the March. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/museums-and-archives\/finding-foundlings-at-the-foundling-museum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Foundling Museum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-and-archives","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topographicwebdesign.co.uk\/ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}