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KATHERINE NOLAN

HOME IS BOTH A CONCRETE PLACE AND A PSYCHOLOGICAL SPACE OF PHYSICAL COMFORT AND EMOTIONAL BELONGING. BY STAGING AND DISRUPTING ‘HOME’ AS BOTH A FEELING AND PLACE THROUGH A SERIES OF ENCOUNTERS IN THE GALLERY SPACE, ‘HOME MADE HOME’ ASKS THE VIEWER TO NAVIGATE POWERFUL EVOCATIONS OF OUR RELATIONSHIPS TO MATERIAL, BELONGING AND PLACE.

THE WORKS IN THIS EXHIBITION REFERENCE HOME TURF, PATHS WELL-TRODDEN, NO-MAN’S LAND, AND THE DOMESTIC HOME. INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR ARE CONFUSED AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF LOCATION AND SPACES ARE FOREGROUNDED.

THE ARTWORKS ADDRESS INTERSECTING YET DISSONANT CONCERNS AROUND GENERATION, MEMORY, BELONGING AND ALIENATION. THROUGH DISPARATE APPROACHES, EACH OF THE ARTISTS INTERROGATE A PERSISTENT YET ELUSIVE IDEALISATION OF HOME AS A PERMANENT, INHABITABLE PLACE AND STATE.

THE EXHIBITION WAS KINDLY SUPPORTED BY FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL, CIT CRAWFORD COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN, CORK AND FIRE STATION ARTISTS’ STUDIOS (FSAS) DUBLIN, THE ARTS COUNCIL OF IRELAND, THE MART GALLERY & STUDIOS, DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL AND BLACKHORSE TYRES.