A Station to Sea Legacy Project
Supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation
We all know there are people that are without a home they can call their own, and we know that many people would like to live in different homes from the ones they currently occupy.
In the third iteration of this evolving project about home, working in collaboration with Coastal Housing and Swansea-based artists, we created a temporary space called What Makes A Home in a location right in the centre of Swansea.
This project attempted to discover, in a playful and participatory way, what people would do if they had time to explore what makes a home for them.
The participant artists are Coastal Housing residents, who have explored and interrogated their understanding of what home means to them. Is it space, being connected to their community, light and sounds, family conversation, or just a having the biggest bed you can imagine? Creating various ‘homes’, we hope to create debate, discussion and delight by examining how it makes us feel when we consciously start to think about how we occupy and live in our home-space.
Working over a period of four weeks the five participants, who were each paired up with a Swansea-based professional artist, realised their visions of what makes a home for them in five installation spaces. Philip Cheater then adapted and connected the spaces to create a journey through the different ideas of home.
Participants’ ‘Homes’ were on display at the former ‘Happy Homes’ premises in Castle Street, Swansea in May and June 2019. Watch this space for the next iteration of our Home project!
PROJECT TEAM:
Creative Producer Roz Moreton
Artists: Zepur Agopyan, Jason A’hearn, Philip Cheater, Gary Crosby, Emily Davies, Chris Harris, Ray Hobbs, Saba Humayun, Jason & Becky, Lee Ludick, Dili Pitt, Eifion Porter, Fran Williams.
Thanks to Geraldine Osborne, BP2 Property, Huw Williams, Jeremy Hill, CJ Ashen.