dr lucy gundry

Curated by Dr Lucy Gundry

07 NOV – 26 APR 2026

Locksbrook, Bath Spa University, ba1 3el

Scattered throughout this building are items of ‘lost property’ which have been left by members of the public on trains and stations throughout the Southwest of England. They were found, logged and held onto for three months by the GWR Lost Property office in Bristol Temple Meads station waiting to be ‘claimed’ by their owners through MissingX.com. However, these belongings were never claimed, so for now they are biding time posing as ‘found objects’ in this exhibition before being taken to charity shops, recycling centres or landfill.

This exhibition forms part of enclothed practiced based research exploring the sense of belonging in how we experience, communicate, collect, archive and exhibit our wearing relationships. The viewer is invited to reflect on what it means to have, hold and lose items of clothing and whether clothes belong to us or we belong to clothes?

Lost Property Map

Look for the exhibits with red labels on the ground floor, mezzanine level and 2nd floor where the ‘X‘, ‘O‘ and ‘*‘ mark the spots on the map. Check in at reception, grab a paper map, pop into the shop, peek inside the disabled toilet, stroll down the ‘Street’, read a book, be seated in the lecture theatre or climb the stairs and perch outside the fashion studios…take the lift up to the top floor and climb the stairs back down again. See the twenty ‘lost’ exhibit facts and fabulations below and go exploring…

Lost Property Exhibits

‘Shoefiti‘

This collaborative contemporary iteration of the cultural act of shoe throwing over power lines, highlights the significance of shoes in marking boundaries, bodies, space, margins, identity and interpersonal relationships. Signifying endings and new beginnings. How does it feel to be in someone else’s shoes?

Girl about town, barefoot in the golden hour.

251763 | ‘Primark’ gold strappy platforms, size 4. Platform 7, Bristol Temple Meads, Tuesday 8 July 25

Helped hobbled hurry, gentleman off the train.

252182 | Wooden walking stick, ‘NHS’. On train, TSSO, Thursday 10 July 25

Blinded by harbour lights, baldpate fortune and fate.

252413 | White Panama hat with black ribbon, ‘F&F’, XL. Platform 8, Plymouth Station, Saturday 12 July 25

Unzipped sweaty white paint job with a pocketed sugar rush, rush.

Cute crocodile clutch, making up a girl’s night white out.

251755 | White plastic clutch with lip balm, body mist, bead anklet and makeup pencil inside.Newton Abbot Station, Sunday 6 July 25

Brassy lip service for passing patriarchal power dressing.

251733 | Black ‘Lipsy’ polyester blazer with gold buttons, size 10. Platform 7, Bristol Temple Meads, Sunday 6 July 25

On train, ready for a spot of rain, shame no name.

252087 | Blue and white spotty ‘Joules’ mac, size 12. Bristol Park Way, Wednesday 9 July 25

Hats off, trucker tracking tourist ticket to ride.

251775 | ‘Goorin Bros’ brown grizzly cap. Front of station, Truro, Sunday 6 July 25

Baby blue gingham bundle, quick change.

252152 | Blue gingham ‘George’ cotton hat, 8-12 months, made in China. Exter St Davids, Wednesday 9 July 25

Dreams ‘Made for life where land ends’ in saved waves.

252031 | Ladies cream ‘Finisterre’ T shirt, M, made in Turkiye. F Coach PZ89 Sleeper, lung rock depot, Tuesday 8 July 25

Off duty switch off, low viz lope.

252210 | Hi Vis ‘Blackrock Style 80300’ vest, XL. Platform 2, Westbury, Thursday 10 July 25

Brassy, classy budgie yellow puff, black collared, ‘Liberty’ lined with black hat and yellow fingertips.

251857 | Yellow ‘Barbour’ padded jacket with gloves and hat, size 12. Bristol Temple Meads, Monday 7 July 25

Hard shell, sea shell, so shore, no more.

251873 | ‘Premier’ turquoise suitcase, small. 1V42, Plymouth, Monday 7 July 25

Cool buzz, game on, Buckaroo too…light year tear.

252482 | ‘Buzz Lightyear’ cool backpack with ‘Buckaroo’ game. Bristol Temple Meads, Monday 14 July 25

Red, right on track, rapid, roll on response.

252850 | Red ‘Rapido Kask’ cycle helmet. On track, Cheltenham Spa Station, Friday 18 July 25

Doff, freed tweed, 100% green, yellow and blue check, mate.

252887 | Wool flat cap. Concourse waiting room, Plymouth, Friday 18 July 25

Leather fingers and thumbs, handle, bars, all stars.

251982 | Black fingerless cycling gloves, small. Ticket office counter, Exeter St Davids’, Tuesday 8 July 25

A bindle bundle of bonnie basics, boarding, homeward bound.

252105 | Black and orange polyester tote bag. Inside: A raspberry ‘Seasalt’ raincoat, size 14. Sparkly sunglasses. Lilac camisole from ‘Children’s Hospice South West’ with £2 tag, size 12. Pale yellow ‘Primark’ cap. Black textured ‘Debenhams’ baggy peaked hat with a tartan stuffed heart broach and metal broach with white cat washing (on side of peak). St Erth, Wednesday 9 July 25

Baby boo, motherly muslin, counting sheep.

251744 | Baby muslin, ‘Primark’, 100% cotton. Newton Abbot, Sunday 6 July 25

Lost Property Vitrine

19 JAN – 2 FEB 2026

Anarchiving Apparel

These historic items are selected from the clothing collection at Frome Museum. They have little provenance, yet collectively they are able to ‘show and tell’ past wearing stories from the 1800’s and 1900’s. This vitrine acts as a ‘repertory of traces’ (Massumi, 2016) curated to allow historic items of clothing a voice in contemporary conversations. The viewer is invited to imagine how these items might be worn to tell new other, untold and unknown enclothed life stories in the future.

(Le Guin and Harraway, 2024, Massumi and Manning, 2016, Trouillot , 2015)

If you have a ‘lost property’ story, please message Lucy.

@lucy.gundry • l.gundry@bathspa.ac.uk • lucygundry.com