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Live event by artist Jeanie Finlay to mark the end of her project Home-Maker

Date: Tuesday 14 March 2006, 1300h
Location: Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

The racks and shelves of second hand shops are full of treasured photo albums, well-worn jumpers and tea stained cups cleared from the homes of the recently deceased. Once well-loved items are now homeless and have lost their sentimental effect. Detached from their owners, they are transformed into junk. The House Clearance of Home-Maker exposes the ephemeral nature of our private self-constructed worlds.

In her project Home-maker, Jeanie Finlay explores what makes a house a home by depicting the lives of seven housebound older people in Derbyshire and Tokyo. In a series of short documentary films these homemakers talk about their lives, passions and the objects that surround them. The work consists of a two-room set, reminiscent of a giant dolls house with a typical English and Japanese living room side by side where you sit, watch and interact with the films. 

At 1300h on 14 March Heaton Used Furniture house clearance staff will be moving into the Home-Maker set at the Hatton Gallery to strip the rooms, pack up the contents and sell it on. The intricate stories and memories of home will be dismantled and severed from the clutter. You are invited to visit the homemakers in their temporary homes one last time, witness its fragmentation and onward journey.

The event will be filmed and made into a short film for the Home-Maker web site.

The Home-maker publication is also available to buy. As an extension of the artwork, the texts and images reflect on the relationships between contemporary art, documentary and notions of home. Edited by Sophie Hope with contributions from Francois Matarasso, Anne Douglas and Heather Delday (On the Edge), Hitomi Hegawa (Work in Progress), Jeanie Finlay in conversation with Gareth Howell and project participants: Monji Kimiaki, Emi Akutgawa and Roy Witham.

Last chance to see Jeanie Finlay's exhibition at Hatton Gallery showing 'Home-Maker', 'When was the last time you said I love you?' and 'Love takes'. Exhibition ends March 14.

posted by Jeanie Tuesday, March 07, 2006

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