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The House of Eloi

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Commissioned for Unravelling Uppark, National Trust

Helen Felcey & Alice Kettle

(2014)

Un­rav­elling Uppark was the third and final ex­hi­bi­tion of the Un­rav­el­ling the Na­tion­al Trust se­ries, part of the Trust New Art pro­gramme, bring­ing Na­tion­al Trust plac­es to life through con­tem­po­rary art and craft. Our con­tri­bu­tion to this, was the col­lab­o­ra­tion The House of Eloi.

The House of Eloi placed the lit­er­ary work of H.G. Wells with­in a space he knew well (when his moth­er was the house­keep­er at Uppark). As a young boy, Wells im­mersed him­self in the rich con­tents of the li­brary, which in­flu­enced his im­ag­i­na­tion and de­sire to be­come a wri­ter. His sci­ence fic­tion book The Time Ma­chine de­scribes an al­ter­na­tive uni­verse, which moves be­tween the vir­tu­al di­men­sion and the earth­ly world; in The War of the Worlds, the earth is sub­ject­ed to a near apoc­a­lyp­tic in­va­sion of Mar­tian be­ings. We used these nov­els of H.G. Wells to make our own fu­tur­is­tic city­scape in the doll’s house room of Uppark.

The House of Eloi wall-hang­ing de­picts a city de­stroy­ed and in­hab­it­ed by strange and curi­ous crea­tures — Eloi — from H.G. Wells’ orig­i­nal text. A fu­tur­is­tic, pers­pex house is erec­ted next to the ex­ist­ing doll’s hous­es. The crea­tures are both beau­ti­ful and strange; which like H.G. Wells’ vi­sion of the fu­ture, ques­tions our per­cep­tion of the real and the un­known.

Helen Felcey

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Helen Felcey

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Helen Felcey

Nº 3

Helen Felcey

Nº 4

Helen Felcey

Nº 5

Credits

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Nº 1, 2, 5; Photos — Jim Stephenson

Nº 3, 4; Photos — Alice Kettle

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The House of Eloi

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Commissioned for Unravelling Uppark, National Trust

Helen Felcey & Alice Kettle

(2014)

Un­rav­elling Uppark was the third and final ex­hi­bi­tion of the Un­rav­el­ling the Na­tion­al Trust se­ries, part of the Trust New Art pro­gramme, bring­ing Na­tion­al Trust plac­es to life through con­tem­po­rary art and craft. Our con­tri­bu­tion to this, was the col­lab­o­ra­tion The House of Eloi.

The House of Eloi placed the lit­er­ary work of H.G. Wells with­in a space he knew well (when his moth­er was the house­keep­er at Uppark). As a young boy, Wells im­mersed him­self in the rich con­tents of the li­brary, which in­flu­enced his im­ag­i­na­tion and de­sire to be­come a wri­ter. His sci­ence fic­tion book The Time Ma­chine de­scribes an al­ter­na­tive uni­verse, which moves be­tween the vir­tu­al di­men­sion and the earth­ly world; in The War of the Worlds, the earth is sub­ject­ed to a near apoc­a­lyp­tic in­va­sion of Mar­tian be­ings. We used these nov­els of H.G. Wells to make our own fu­tur­is­tic city­scape in the doll’s house room of Uppark.

The House of Eloi wall-hang­ing de­picts a city de­stroy­ed and in­hab­it­ed by strange and curi­ous crea­tures — Eloi — from H.G. Wells’ orig­i­nal text. A fu­tur­is­tic, pers­pex house is erec­ted next to the ex­ist­ing doll’s hous­es. The crea­tures are both beau­ti­ful and strange; which like H.G. Wells’ vi­sion of the fu­ture, ques­tions our per­cep­tion of the real and the un­known.

Helen Felcey

Nº 1

Helen Felcey

Nº 2

Helen Felcey

Nº 3

Helen Felcey

Nº 4

Helen Felcey

Nº 5

Credits

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Nº 1, 2, 5; Photos — Jim Stephenson

Nº 3, 4; Photos — Alice Kettle

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