Photograph © Dilyana Tankova
Home is both anchor and question. This exhibition shares personal stories of migration, intimacy, and landscape and fantasy, asking what home means when it is always moving, remembered, and remade.
Home Is? brings together artists who look at what home means when it is both familiar and far away, solid and shifting. For some, it is found in childhood fields, family houses, or the quiet rhythm of ancestral landscapes. For others, it lives in movement; between countries, languages, between reality and fantasy
The works in this exhibition are built from memory, belonging, and the everyday. They show how the smallest details can carry us back: a familiar smell, a colour, a light, the shape of a room, the sound of a voice. Home can be the comfort of a partner, the safety of community, or the rituals of faith. It can also be fragile, unsettled, and hard to hold onto.
What unites these artists is the act of looking closely. They walk, observe, and remember. Some began as personal notes, others as long-term explorations. All of them hold on to something that might otherwise be lost: moments of intimacy, traces of family life, connections to the land, or the silence between generations and the magic of the imagination.
Together, these perspectives remind us that home is not one fixed thing. It shifts as we move through life, as we leave and return, as we build and rebuild. It can live in a place, a person, a memory, or in the space between all three.
Home Is? invites you to step into these stories and to ask yourself the same question: what does home mean to you—now, here, in this moment?
This exhibition is part of Photomonth Photography Festival
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Venue: The Gallery Café, St Margaret’s House, 21 Old Ford Road, E2 9PL
Dates:
Exhibition: Tuesday 7th October - Monday 17th November, 8:30am-5pm
Opening Event: Wednesday 8th October, 6:30-8:30pm
OPENING EVENT
Join Virginia Orr, Exhibition Co-Ordinator for another of our ‘In Coversation With’ as she chats with exhibiting artist/curator Dilyana Tankova and artists Kathrin McGeary, Ania Krypska, and Luca Artini as part of Home Is?. Together, we will explore the importance of the concept of home and why it continues to inspire artistic practice.
This panel will reflect on how the idea of home shapes identity, belonging, the imagination and how these meanings shift across cultures, generations and experiences. The discussion will also open up to how artworks on this theme are received by viewers, whose own experiences add new layers to the conversation.
The evening is both a chance to learn more about the exhibition and to connect with the collective of artists behind it
Tickets: Free (registration is essential)