Home Truths: Time for Tea

• Part 1: Art workshop: a guided drawing activity, using templates and carbon paper, whilst sharing tea and biscuits.
• Part 2: Panel discussion focusing on the collaborative journey of the “Time for Tea” project, from the perspective of the academic, the artist and the survivor.
• Part 3: Audience interaction and sharing of the project’s outcomes.

Andy D’Cruz is a British artist of Goan decent. He produces paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture as part of his core practice, and exhibits nationally and internationally. He is also engaged in producing large scale public sculpted and themed environments. He has a socially engaged practice working sensitively in education and with vulnerable community groups.

Jonathan Hogg is an artist and creative technologist. Their work includes audio-visual installations, light artworks, immersive interactive projections and live visuals, including performances at the Southbank Centre and Royal Albert Hall. Jonathan’s visuals emerge through a process of experimentation and chance, drawing on their experiences of neurodiversity, and combine light and movement to mesmerising effect. 

Output Arts; Andy D’Cruz and Jonathan Hogg have been making audio-visual and participatory artworks together as Output Arts for over 14 years. They combine backgrounds in Fine Art and Technology, with years of experience in teaching. Their works span large-scale light installations, outdoor parades, immersive environmental pieces and sensitive community-led audio artworks. 

Karen Schucan Bird is an academic, writer and activist in the field of domestic abuse. As an Associate Professor of Social and Political Science at University College London, Karen addresses real-world issues through collaborative research. Her current work focus on whole-systems responses to domestic abuse and art-based approaches to improving community responses to abuse. These projects involve partnership working with victim-survivors of domestic abuse, artists, and domestic abuse organisations including SafeLives and Solace Women’s Aid. Karen’s work has been published in world-leading academic journals, such as Trauma, Violence and Abuse and Journal of Family Violence, and featured in news outlets from The Conversation to the Daily Mirror.

Gaynor Tutani (Art Adlib) is a curator, producer and writer who integrates her passions for arts, culture, community and education into exhibitions, events and art commentary. Her speciality is in public programming – hosting live performances, talks, interviews and poetry programs of which she extends as part of her practice as the Creative Programming Officer at Museum of the Home. Working across the Creative Programmes and Collections & Curatorial team, as well as the Commercial division, her role centres on aligning the Museum’s programming within the core values and vision of engaging with the museum communities through fundraising and programming that interrogates critical societal issues via an artistic lens. She co-founded EARTHworks[artists], a curatorial duo focused on fostering intergenerational creative collaborations. Gaynor holds a BA in History and the History of Ideas and an MA in Museum Cultures with Curating, specialising in decolonial approaches. 

Home Truths is Museum of the Home’s socially engaged initiative and commitment to discuss current issues of home and home beyond the physical space. 

The programme brings together writers, creatives, artists, and academics to investigate what impacts individual experiences and understanding of home in the 21st century.  Homelessness, discrimination, racism, decolonisation and what they mean for today’s society are just some of the topics past Home Truths have reflected on. 

The ideas behind Home Truths centre around discussions some often find difficult to face – but which are central to the experience of home, and the human experience. The idea of “truth” is often contested and subjective. Through reflection, talks, performances and more, we will amplify and highlight how these ideas of belonging vary from person to person.  

Home Truths creates a deeper understanding of our society and inspire action. It is a place to learn more, take part in discussions and for us all to find ways of living better together. 

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