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Best laid Plans...

8/31/2020

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It has been a remarkable Spring/Summer. With the Covid -19 virus causing such disruption both here in the UK and around the world, plans have inevitably changed as we adapt to the subsequent circumstances. Three months of Lockdown and continued uncertainty about the virus has meant further Museum visits have had to be postponed. 

However, as we were all enthused by the visit to The Herb Garrett, we have opted for this as a starting point for new  work. Given the difficulties in arranging exhibitions at the moment we will show the work online. 


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Chris is keen to explore the links between John Keats and St.Thomas's hospital. Keats was an apothecary and training to become a surgeon when he decided to leave medicine to focus on writing poetry. She has been researching herbariums and medicinal plants, along side  the work of the poet.
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Heather has been gathering inspiration and collecting various objects in readiness for "the magic to happen". She will be utilising a letterpress type case as a container for an altered book, and specimens. Heather is writing a story about a herb woman who supplies the hospital.
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Meanwhile Karen intrigued by the array of surgical instruments on display, has chosen to research another woman's story - novelist Frances Burney. Frances recorded a first hand account of having had a mastectomy in 1811. 
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While Jules' research pays homage to Alice de Bregerake who gifted the property to St.Thomas's hospital in return for the yearly rent of one rose.
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