Heather Tweed
Artist Writer Researcher
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Heather Tweed is an artist, writer and researcher.
Heather Tweed is an artist, writer and researcher with a practice spanning more than twenty five years.
Her exhibition work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, OXO Tower Wharf, Old Truman Brewery and Edinburgh Fringe. One of two British artists selected for the British Council's international Crossing Cultures partnership in Cairo and Alexandria, her work has been supported by Arts Council England, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the British Council, and covered by The Guardian, The Independent and the BBC. The artist has been selected as Saatchi Online Critic's Choice and Saatchi Video Artist of the Week three times.
Alongside her visual practice the artist has spent years recovering forgotten Victorian lives from the archive, writing for the Public Domain Review, Ripperologist Magazine and Historians Magazine. She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Royal Historical Society and the British Music Hall Society.
The visual and the written works intermingle, drawn from the same source — an obsession with the overlooked and the extraordinary.
In 2021 she created a podcast with Dr Jude Cowan Montague. She continues to research and publish the occasional article with a focus on a series of true tales pocket books she has been writing.
She is a member of The Society of Authors and organizes one of the local groups.
She is also President of The Mrs Caroline Giacometti Prodgers Fan Club.
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This is the true story of a little girl who charmed animals and birds on her forest walks in Germany then grew up to be a rich and famous star.
Madame Marzella once thrilled and delighted Victorian audiences with her spectacular bird shows.
Then at the peak of her career her brother-in-law took the act to court for unpaid debts.
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Did family rifts mend?
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Where did the money go?
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How did she get birds to obey her every command?
Using primary sources and original research Heather Tweed coaxes overlooked and hidden Victorians back into the limelight.
First in a series of booklets.
Let The Show Begin!
Heather Tweed is an Artist, Writer, Researcher, Victorianist, once Teacher & more!
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She scours primary sources such as 19th century newspaper reports and archived documents to bring to life the hidden stories of once famed Circus, Music Hall and Menagerie performers. She has written for Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, Ripperologist, Historians Magazine and Strandlines.
She is a member of the Society Of Authors and organises the Bristol Group.
She has been diving into archives and visiting locations related to these subjects since 2011 and holds a wealth of information that she is weaving together to recreate as much of their lives as may be possible.
Please visit the website to explore press coverage of projects and exhibitions.
Caroline Giacometti Prodgers can be found here
Several other little known and overlooked characters in research for many years will be released soon.
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