Rosalind Thompson

The home is a metaphor for safety and comfort yet it can also be a place of oppression, conflict and isolation. I am interested in investigating and subverting the social construct of the domestic ideal. My work aims to question the underlying layers of this ideal and to explore the tensions and anxieties often found within the home.

"Home in a sense has always been unhomely. It is not just the utopian place of safety and shelter which we supposedly yearn. But also the place of dark secrets of fear and danger that we can sometimes only inhabit furtively."

D Massey