Brown at Work
Croome
2016
Brown at Work developed as an idea in collaboration with a volunteering group at Croome, and was part of a the multi-year Croome Redefined programme by the National Trust.
The invitation by curator Kiki Claxton was to revisit Lancelot Capability Brown’s landscape design at Croome, dating from the mid-1750s. The project played with Brown's ability at the time to move soil in large quantities, by having access to sufficient finance and being able to proclaim influence.
Brown at Work was made of piles of soil on the main lawn in front of the manor building, together with tools for shuffling them around.
