Curated by Kim Thornton
Charlotte Squire
My work uses assemblages of domestic ephemera to explore social relationships and anxiety. The home interior becomes habitat following the isolation of pandemic, while social media allows the boundaries of closed doors to become permeable.
Ella Soni
Keen to investigate her position as an art student who questions ideas of belonging, displacement and entitlement, Ella Soni’s sculpture based practice is a cross cultural exploration of what it means to exist between British and Indian tradition. Based on an interest in her dual heritage and wider experiences of the diaspora, Soni’s work is a material and research driven reflection on this.
Kim Thornton
Kim fashions costumes from household materials like dusters, dishcloths and scourers to transform these familiar objects into props for her playful and often unsettling photographs and films which contemplate the politics of being female.
Léonie Cronin
Léonie Cronin aspires to awaken intrinsic female power creating site sensitive rituals in the form of performance and sculpture. Informed by somatic, yoga and shamanic practices the rituals relate to female sexuality, spirituality and fertility.
Laura Moreton-Griffiths
Conversation had. Kisses stolen. Life. Death. Decisions made. What happens behind closed doors? Drawing on the architecture of Bell House, a new video piece, performance and still image.
Lucy Soni
Lucy’s practice is rooted in painting with an interest in expanded painting. Exploring themes of chaos and control, the urge to mark make, patience, accuracy and taste, seeking to celebrate colour, form and the pursuit of unattainable perfection.
Monika Kita
Monika Kita is a London based artist and filmmaker. She works primarily using medium of video, film, photography, sound and installation. The work is often concerned with the subject of loss with a strong emphasis on space, time and history. Recently she started exploring possibilities of interactive engagement with the viewers, especially when working with sound.
Nicky Hirst
Known for her subtle and elegant work employing a variety of media, Nicky Hirst’s art is perhaps best described as an exploration of serendipity that can occur in unintended and unexpected places.
Rosie Barnes
To the Dogs
On one hand a playful series documenting people’s dog portraits, in situ, in their homes; on the other, exploring and considering our place in this world.
Sarah Lightman
No sooner does she escape Rembrandt’s murky waters, Bathsheba finds herself stuck in puddles of last night’s stir fry as she forgot to switch on the dishwasher.
From my "Biblical Domestic Series", where lightly depressed Biblical and Historical women escape master paintings, only to become trapped in my household chores.