Is this home?

Refugee Week 2024 ‘Our Home’

Leadworks Plymouth

Curated by Merrydith Russell and Matin Ahirad

Is this home? Presents works created by Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support from The Making of Home research project. Offering space to reflect on the mapping practices used to generate research into the male experience of homemaking. What do we bring with us to a new home? How do we move around a new city? Where do we get our food from? What memories change how we feel in our new spaces? The display presents contemporary artefacts to mapped experiences of home.

The exhibition welcomes you to respond to the maps and share your experience. Please take a label below and return it at the end of the display.

What do you think of when you look at this display?

Is there a memory of home you would like to share?

Do you recognise any of these objects?

What object in your home holds a special memory?

Black threaded embroidery hanging.
Three pieces of work. Black threaded embroidery hanging.
A TV screen propped up behind and to the side of larger strips of paper with writing on them.
The backs of people looking at larger strips of paper with writing.
The backs of people looking at larger strips of paper with writing.
Close up of TV screen with a grey node diagram on.
Close-up of a man looking at larger strips of paper with writing.
The backs of people looking at larger strips of paper with writing.
The backs of people looking hanging embroidery.
As part of the celebration, we began the hard work of archiving all the creative projects DCRS community. These boards now decorate the new office in Plymouth to welcome DCRS service users.
Two women smiling sharing food.
Close up of food.
Back of a man watching a documentary on a projector.
A group of people looking at photographs of landscapes.
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