Keepers

An installation revealling carefully chosen objects from Bodmin Keep’s collection and archives, while the museum undergoes repairs.

Selected by Keep staff and volunteers, certain items will be reproduced as cut-outs, creating a trail around the site that leads to a film installation, with audio interviews telling a more in-depth story narrated by Keep staff and volunteers. Drawing on documents, treasured objects and diary entries from the collection, the film weaves together personal and social histories.

Practicalities: The site is wheelchair accessible. Although the museum itself is closed, the building has plenty of outdoor areas, including stairwells and nooks, to explore.

About the Artist

Rachael Jones is an artist-filmmaker and researcher whose practice often extends to involve others in the filmmaking process. Sometimes participants are objects with their own agency, and as a result her films are made up of multiple interacting assemblages. Often working with archive images, she blends old photographs with newly created visuals, incorporating both analogue and digital formats that create playful tension in her films. Interested in what can come out of research, embodiment and participation, Rachael’s films retain traces of process-driven interactions, using experimental filmmaking, sound and animation techniques to creatively connect participants with place. She is involved in land-based, alternative and sustainable practices, using found materials and handmade processes where possible.