st Georges Hall
Exhibition
The Grand Hall
This is the Grand Hall floor of St Georges and dates back to the Victorian era. Using 30,000 tiles this floor is highly detailed and tells a story of it's own. Back in the 1850s these Minton tiled floors we hand painted by only the best and really showed the wealth and importance of the building it occupied. This specific example, when found, was the largest and most pristine example of it's kind due to it being covered up for a dance floor in the 1900's.
Upon research I found that the story of the floor is based off the maritime history of Liverpool and ties in with the building's deign based off of water mythology. With five bands/circles each one has a section to tell. One with the Liverbird at the center and the others containing symbols of the United Kingdom. They're all tied in with sea elements like the trident, Persidan, the same dolphins as the ones outside and ships to show the sea port and trade of Liverpool. This floor holds so much history with all the banquets and famous people that have danced upon it. For this reason I want to use the floor as my inspiration for the exhibition. My thoughts so far are to create something like my cross year crit, but on a much larger scale to create an installation, next thing to do is to research artists that have done paper installations before to learn more about the practise as it is still new for me and I am currently experimenting with my practise now being three dimensional.
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