Spender House

Emily Richardson

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Tags: Architecture, Artist Spaces, Environment

The Spender House in Essex was designed in 1968 by Richard and Su Rogers (Team 4) for photographer and artist Humphrey Spender. The film is a biographical portrait of both architecture and inhabitant.

Spender died in 2005 but his spirit is still very present in the house and studio. The film explores the unique architectural qualities of the house and studio and provides a glimpse of its former inhabitant’s life and work as a painter, textile designer and photographer of British life in the 1930s for Mass Observation.

Spender House is a temporal exploration of place, an exploded portrait of architecture and inhabitant aided by the use of archival sound.

Producer/Director/Camera: Emily Richardson
Sound composer: Emily Richardson
Special thanks to the Humphrey Spender Archive and Rachel Spender Made with an Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant at the Royal College of Art, London.

Spender House is part of a trilogy of films collected in House Works: reFraming the Modern House.

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Emily Richardson

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