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In the last couple of years Harewood House Trust has made a point of working with some of the country’s most talented artists and designers.

It started in 2017 with the Victorian House, created by award winning film and television set-designer Sir Michael Howells, and was followed last year with artistic director Simon Costin’s Dreams of the 1920s.

This Christmas they have teamed up with acclaimed multimedia artists Davy and Kristin McGuire, from Studio McGuire, who have created a series of brilliant and intricate audio-visual projections.

Christmas at Harewood: A Night at the Mansion, which runs for the next four weeks, takes visitors into a Harry Potter-esque world of gossiping paintings, chatting crockery and singing porcelain statues.

Yorkshire-based mixed media artists Davy and Kristin McGuire, right, have created an intricate and elaborate visual and audio display to enchant visitors to Harewood House this Christmas. (James Hardisty).

Davy and Kristin’s work is hard to pin down, combining as it does paper cutting, film, theatre, animation and projection, with storytelling at the heart of the whimsical worlds they create.

At Harewood, their projections and installations are spread across a dozen or so rooms. “Each one has a nice surprise,” says Ed Appleyard, Harewood House’s director of engagement.

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