Country mansion put in the picture.Byline: By Vince Gledhill Film maker plays part in exhibition A mansion is heading for another film-based art attack this summer. Film maker Mike Figgis, who directed the Newcastle-based Stormy Monday in 1984 and Tilda Swinton, who played the White Witch For other uses, see White Witch (disambiguation). White witch, or good witch, are qualifying terms in English used to distinguish those helpful witches who do not use magic to harm others from normal witches. in the film version of the Narnia Chronicles, are among 15 people invited to create exhibits at Belsay Hall Belsay Hall is a 19th century country mansion located at Belsay, Northumberland. It is a Grade I listed building. The thirty metre square mansion was built in 1817 for Sir Charles Monck (then of Belsay Castle close by) to a design by architect John Dobson in the Greek , near Morpeth. Their five-month long exhibition, comes in the wake of displays three years ago featuring work by fashion artists, including Stella McCartney Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer. Early life Stella McCartney was born in London, the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, an American rock music photographer famous for her support of vegetarianism and Zandra Rhodes  The of this article or section may be compromised by "peacock terms".You can help Wikipedia by removing peacock terms. . Stella McCartney's crystal chandelier in the shape of a horse, still hangs in the entrance to Belsay Hall. One piece of work in the new exhibition will involve 4,000 tea cups in one bedroom and another will have a forest of real trees in a different room. Project curator Judith King said: "It is about to get hectic and when everything is moved into Belsay. The hall will have to be closed for three weeks from April 16. But it is going to be fantastic. Each of the installations is an artist's response to the stories we have provided them about Belsay and the people living in and around it. Tilda Swinton will work alongside her husband, playwright and visual artist John Byrne, who wrote the TV hit Tutti Frutti, and their children. Mike Figgis has made a short film using models wearing clothes inspired by Belsay stories. Fashion designers Viktor & Rolf will provide a centrepiece display with a ballgown dipped in silver and suspended between the Grecian columns in the Pillar Hall. Award-winning costume designer Sandy Powell will create a 'peephole' in a false door where viewers can spy into Lady Middleton's 'bedroom' and see someone dressing and undressing. The exhibition, called The Picture House - Film, Art and Design at Belsay, opens on May 5, will be on view until September 30. |
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