The final piece in the exhibition, No Place Like Home in October 2019.
The final piece in the exhibition, No Place Like Home in October 2019.
One of the paintings before making some of the blocks independent of each other.
One of the paintings before making some of the blocks independent of each other.
The painting as it was in the residency studio at Unit 4 when first put on the wall in its full vertical height.
The painting as it was in the residency studio at Unit 4 when first put on the wall in its full vertical height.
The work in relation to another painting Land of Hope and Glory, which the curator felt presented a gulf between safety and insecurity.
The work in relation to another painting Land of Hope and Glory, which the curator felt presented a gulf between safety and insecurity.

No Place like Home

No Place Like Home

Acrylic and oil on canvas

Vertical Polyptych 5x 50x50cm

This is a totem to home – its place of comfort, memory and creative expression, referencing the artist Eileen Gray and in particular the idea of ‘poetic spaces’ in the writing of Gaston Bachelard.  Nancy collected images, colours and shapes of useful things, ornaments and objects embedded with memory and through the process of layering, cropping and obscuring,  building them into the painting, some have become obscured in the process of making this new object.

A site specific commission and it an opposing visual reference for the painting series ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ in the end of year art academy exhibition, ‘All We Have’ at Islington Mill, curated by Fenne van den Heuven.