Close to Home 🏠 is an exhibition and workshop series by artist Lucy Waters centred around ideas of home, place and the context surrounding how we live in modern Britain.

‘Close to Home’ features a collection of over 40 pieces of tableware by artist Lucy Waters, alongside a selection of works from participants attended the workshops.

Water’s practice involves examining the socio-economic landscape of the North East and making work in response to these findings.

These hand painted, readymade ceramic pieces are a playful, out of kilter nod to traditional blue tableware. These ceramics often feature Waters family home and the street that she lives on in Newcastle as a reoccurring motif.

Waters employs the use of text throughout her pieces in order to scoff at, make reference to, and highlight the ludicrousness of such socio-politically derived language. The text is often lifted from lengthier extracts, commonly used phrases or taken from particular quotes and statistics.

Although approached through a geographically specific lens, the significance of the concept and message as a whole can be applied in a much broader sense, resonating greatly with the climate we currently find ourselves living within.

Exhibition dates:

30th November — 18th Jan

9am - 4pm