Gold Drunk
Film, 2024
Gold Drunk is a film and community project that explores female power, empire, and monstrosity through the reimagined figure of Britannia. Drawing on museum collections, folklore and goddess mythology, the work transforms Britannia from a passive national emblem into an emotionally charged, unstable presence shaped by greed, control, and domination.
Using collage animation, found artefacts and surreal narrative structures, the film constructs a monstrous body filled with objects, interiors and characters drawn from the Time and Tide Museum and its Elizabethan House. References to cabinets of curiosity, colonial histories and the Norse goddess Gullveig position the work within a speculative, mythic framework that questions national identity and authority.
Developed during a residency at Time and Tide Museum, the project also involved collaboration with students from East Coast College, who created animated ‘curious objects’ responding to themes of migration, belonging and voice. Gold Drunk formed part of the museum’s first digital exhibition, Not Made in Great Yarmouth.
The project was commissioned by Time and Tide Museum with Art Fund support.
