To Build a Home
An exhibition of an ongoing body of work about homemaking amidst these times of crises at Glasgow Women's Library October 2025 - March 2026
Homes are not built and then made; they are continually remade - broken, repaired, and reshaped through time. They are intimately connected with our lives - reflecting our circumstances, health and resources.
With the coot for a muse, and using domestic debris and biomaterials, this series of little Attempts at Home draws on my migrant heritage, environmentalist upbringing, and current situation as a domestically incompetent mum trying to make a home.
The works here are experiments in reconciling my radical, eco-building upbringing, with aspirational, contemporary visions of domesticity and ideal homes.
Homemaking for Beginners by Victoria Mitchell
Exhibition photos by Ruth Clark
Attempt at Home #14
Ingredients: sand paper, to-do lists, dried grass, found metal, cotton wool, packaging materials, thread, old vest, household emulsion – Pink Ground, skirting board fragment.
Works from an ongoing investigation of what it takes to make a home in this time of crises. Supported by Creative Scotland. Work from the series has been shown at The Royal Scottish Academy, shortlisted for the Glover-Rayner Prize at SALON/24 GIANT Bournemouth with the Healing Collective and Streetlevel Photoworks 2022, Photofusion SALON/21
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