Newstead Abbey Christmas exhibition 2025

We were asked by Newstead Abbey to create a puppet show based around a story of a mouse, an evil witch and 2 young girls. The young girls are two sisters who once used to live in Newstead Abbey.

 My group was allocated one of the sisters so when we went to the Abbey I wanted to focus on the young charters that were set out by the staff and take inspiration from them. My greatest inspiration from this project came from the dress and props of one of the mannequins as I felt it had a lot of character. The delicate lace and pureness of the white materials next to such a dark and wooden background was intriguing to me.