Tressells Children, 2023

This commission from MSL Digital in August 2023 was to create sound compositions to re-interpret a series of long-shelved oral histories collected in the 1980s. These tapes captured the stories of those who lived in the town in the 20th century. Tressell’s Children creates links between the stories of life in the interwar period and the earlier work of Robert Tressell. Sound Composition Mary Hooper, production Aram Zarikan, Readers: Ellie Gidlow, Piper Wren, Lucy Pappas, Sally Ann Lycett, Charlotte Snook, Alice Snook, Ivy Broughton Crabbe, -Kay Sandford, Julie Gidlow, Nicky Urling-Clark, Leigh Shine, Mark Manners, Glyn Carter, Amelie & Lottie Lingard, Omiros Marshall Maragokos, Konstantinos Marshall Maragokos, Oscar Chamberlin, Jack Adamson, Wilf Truscott. Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the project is inspired by Robert Tressell’s groundbreaking 1914 book, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, which drew upon Tressell’s life as a painter and decorator in Hastings