V&A: Music Hall Sickert & The Three Graces

This immersive installation created by an award-winning creative team of theatre makers, video artists and designers explored the rise and fall of ‘Music Hall’, a lost genre of popular entertainment.

Film, music and objects came together in a theatrical narrative, spotlighting the Bedford Music Hall in Camden Town to examine the world of Edwardian Music Hall

The paintings were displayed in a purpose built room with multiple projection areas screening a recreated narrative of the “Three Graces” – a singing trio from the Edwardian era whom Walter Sickert painted. We follow their performances and then the contemporary reminiscences of one of the Three Graces in old age.

Client:
Victoria & Albert Museum

Location:
V&A, London, 2013

Services:
Video & Projection Design
Technical Consultancy

Team:
Projection Designer: Dick Straker
Technical Consultant: John O’Connell
Systems Designer: Salvador Bettencourt Ávila
Video Designer: Finn Ross

Production Credits:
Creative Director: Nissen Richards Studio
Director: Katie Mitchell
Filmmaker: Emily Harris
Filmmaker: Grant Gee

Photos:
© David Lamber
© Emily Harris
© V&A