FOLLOWING on from their successful collaboration Convergence and Space in the Brunel Goods Shed last year, Stroud artists Paul Grellier and Ann-Margreth Bohl have teamed up again to curate a very different sort of exhibition - entitled Artefact or Fiction.
Much mystery surrounds the remarkable story of an isolated local cottage that collapsed into the ground in the mid 1800’s, apparently entombing the childless old couple “ of strange practice and eccentric making” who lived there.
Based on the scant factual records they have unearthed relating to this sad tale, Bohl-Grellier have assembled a collection of the craft tools, household objects and other details that may have been belonged to the couple or connected through ensuing local myths.
Visitors are invited to seek out the temporary additions, distributed unobtrusively throughout the museum’s historic rooms, to consider their origin, integrity and reference within the context of the museum.
Children and adults alike will be able to follow a hidden trail, and interactively add knowledge or creative speculation about the objects and their history.
ArteFact or Fiction opens at the Museum in the Park on Thursday and continues until the end of the month.
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