The Horror Room

The Horror Room

A series of digitally re-imagined murals in partnership with artist , Angela Darby. The murals were originally painted onto the walls of a youth club in Antrim circa 1976. Through time the paintings began to degrade in the damp environment  and the figures  grew more phantom –like as they took on a sinister appearance .During the day the youth club also served the local school as a detention room to facilitate the punishment of pupils and it was through this association that the room became notoriously known to the children as ‘The Horror Room’.

The artists located the building and photographed the murals just before it was demolished. The deteriorated images were digitally re-imagined and they are now preserved as archaeological records. The Horror Room is presented within the vernacular of museum displays, implying that the context within which an artifact sits is as important to their ‘reading’ as the information they contain.