Anouk has combined traditional and contemporary printing techniques to create a large scale, 3m by 4.20m, textile artwork referencing both tapestries and theatre backdrops. She researched Stourhead’s history and collection, pulling out 47 prints, drawings and paintings, which were collected by the Hoare family. She then reassembled hundreds of fragments of these digitally, combining them with pastel-coloured clouds and surreal horizons to create a fictional, ‘collaged’ mise-en-scene.
Anouk remembers her first experience of the visitor journey that begins at the house, working down into the garden and magnificent views across the lake: “I was fascinated and overwhelmed by the experience of ambling through a series of carefully curated scenes, becoming a diminutive character within a greater narrative, similar to those observed in the landscape paintings within the house.”
On Anouk’s style Emily MacCormack, House and Collections Manager said “From the first, we loved Anouk’s work because it captures the majestic and dreamlike qualities that landscapes like Stourhead hold,”
She continues, “Also the relationship between nature and architecture is one of the creative principles Stourhead was built upon and we’re excited to see a new piece of art inspired by that idea.”
