A collaboration with two other artists at Speke Hall, a largeTudor/Victorian house in Liverpool. Working with learning disabled, visually impaired groups and the National Trust on an Access to Heritage project. Through a three-month series of workshops we developed multisensory machines resembling archaic technologies to compliment interpretation of the site and its artefacts. The sounds and smells emitted by the Bellowphone machines were derived from the aspects of the house and collections which the participants found most stimulating. We encountered lengthy delays due to a remote curatorial policy which at once insisted that the artworks be in keeping and also distinct from the existing artefacts.

When a novel project is undertaken in any institution it will automatically encounter all the reasons why it has not happened already.