This new residency will see composer, lyricist and singer Mary
Hampton create material inspired by The Edward James Archive, the
College's culturally significant setting and teaching of crafts. It
will facilitate two new community groups, a listening group and an
acapella singing group. Mary will also curate a series of concerts
under the banner Salon Imaginaire.
With a background in musical-instrument making, Mary's music
plays with dynamic tensions, including the past and the present,
the natural and the civilised, the ethereal and the material. She
has toured world-wide, worked on commissions for Radio 3's Late
Junction, and in 2017 was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Award for composition. The residency is supported by West Dean
College and Harriet's Trust. It has received additional support
from Café OTO and Oxford Brookes University. Photo by Emile
Holba.