The girl who lived in Bishops’ House
Bishops’ House Museum

Exhibited as part of ‘Curious House’, Art Sheffield 2016, and supported by Arts Council England, Bishops’ House, A.G.P. Works and Loop Print.

Curious House showcased a series of site-specific artworks responding to Bishops’ House, Sheffield. Built around 1500 the house is the best surviving example of a timber framed building in this area. Artists Lyndall Phelps, Rachel Emily Taylor, Louise Finney, and Caroline Claisse were invited to respond to the historic space. Through their individual art practices, their work reveals histories that are currently untold and ‘invisible’.

For Rachel Emily Taylor, Curious House began with a conversation with Trudy, who spent her childhood in Bishops’ House until her family moved out in 1973. In her piece The Girl Who Lived in Bishops’ House, Rachel combined fragments, layered voice recordings, augmented by slide projections – or ‘screen’ memories – of family photographs and documentation from Museums Sheffield’s archive.