Lady Anne Clifford: Building Attributes explores the life and work of the 17th-century English noblewoman Lady Anne Clifford, using the potential of architectural models as attributes supporting other forms of museum display. The exhibition examines how Lady Anne Clifford’s life and work straddled architecture, writing, and acts of memorialization. Four architectural models, varying in scale and abstraction, translate textual research and historical sites into spatial artifacts, each representing a distinct thematic “attribute” in Clifford’s engagement with architecture: biography, memorialization, lineage, and fragment.

The exhibition is part of a collaboration between OCCAS and the Centre for Fashion Curation, University of the Arts London, through Tim Anstey and Judith Clark. The exhibition was designed and curated by Judith Clark and AHO Masters student Ines Omvik together with Tim Anstey. The exhibition is hosted by Abbott Hall Museum/ Lakeland Arts through Niall Hodson.