Take a look at our latest exhibition, exploring the theme of home, not just as the four walls of your family house, but as a feeling of belonging, safety, and community.
Liverpool-based artist Charmaine Chaudry comes from a dual-heritage background, with both English and Pakistani family, and she cites this as essential to her work. Throughout her life, she has lived across the country, from Staffordshire to London, Oxford and Liverpool. In each place she has had to make her feeling of home in new surroundings, while feeling
pulled back into an idealised vision of her Pakistani heritage, or her nostalgic English countryside upbringing.
Her paintings are based across various locations she has visited. Travel plays a big part in Charmaine’s work, she believes it is a special way we can connect and understand each other as humans, beyond language, politics and culture. Charmaine frequently depicts scenes from Morocco, Turkey, India and Pakistan, as well as slightly closer, where she has
lived in the UK.
Charmaine hopes that we will be able to relate to the intimacy of shared moments or to the dream-like revelry of places we know but aren’t known.
Exhibition opens to the public: 16th August – 24 August, 11am – 4pm