A TOP Test Valley tourist attraction has launched two new film installations by its artist-in-residence.

Lizzie Sykes is the firth artist to take part in the National Trust's artists' residency programme - A Place for Art - at Mottisfont Abbey near Romsey.

And the two year programme showcases the work of six artists-in-residence and each one crated a piece of art that relates to Mottisfont and its history.

Lizzie's work has involved teaming up with contemporary dancers Louise Tanto and Cathy Seago, Mottisfont Estate staff and volunteers along with a Mind the Gap - a theatre workshop group for older people based in Wiltshire.

"This residency came to be about the physicality of how bodies appropriate and move within these very particular spaces, both inside and outdoors," said Lizzie, who added: "It was a sensual and tactile experience – Mottisfont is full of textures, like the tree bark that so many of us are drawn to touch, or the smooth wood inside the house. I’ve translated that into live forms and movement."

Filmed in the grounds of the former Augustinian priory, Lizzie's 'The Greeting' examines the history of the property which sits alongside the Abbey Stream - a tributary of the River Test. This includes the spring or font in the Abbey grounds from which Mottisfont's name is derived and was a meeting place for thousands of years.

It also explores ideas of 'visibility and camouflage' through the movement responses of the performers to Mottisfont’s beautiful trees, some of which are hundreds of years old.

Photographs of the project by Gina Dearden will also be on display, along with a documentary film about the creative process and what the project meant to the participants from Mind the Gap.

Another of the projects 'Are You There' shows a single performer, Louise Tanoto, alone in the house. Lizzie said she was fascinated by the sections of medieval architecture that are half-hidden all over Mottisfont’s Abbey. "You open a cupboard door in the dining room and there’s a completely intact arch – it’s amazing, almost like seeing a bone in a body," said Lizzie who added: "I started to think about what you might do if you were in this house on your own, bound to the place, almost literally part of the furniture or fabric of the house. How might we respond physically to the place, just with our bodies, if no one was watching?’

Her work is on display at Mottisfont until 5 July.