Four years of Art and English Literature have culminated in the Degree Show exhibition, the finale to my dissertation and artworks: Welcome to the ‘Thornton House Museum’, an immersive installation of a Victorian drawing room, based on the 1854 Victorian Industrial Revolution novel North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell.

The story of class struggle and the resilience of the human spirit has been brought to life: through large oil paintings I rendered on canvas, a clay bust sculpture, collected antiques and the production of an audio guide- explore the Museum for an intimate insight to Gaskell’s creation and the power of communication during conflict.