The House We Built is a culmination of ongoing research into memory, storytelling, and the emotional fabric of the environments we internalise. It reflects a process of constructing an imagined house—not made of timber, brick, or furniture, but of layered recollections, inherited archetypes, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive, to belong, and to remember.

Over time, my work has given form to a constellation of recurring motifs—part-symbol, part-character—which move between drawings, paintings, and mixed media objects. These figures have grown in presence and familiarity, becoming more than echoes of remembered things. They now occupy a space of their own—tactile, vivid, and rooted within a kind of emotional topography. In this imagined house, they live as if they were once real. Their appearances are not just revisitations of memory, but rebirths in new contexts, altered by time, intention, and material.

This constructed environment doesn’t replicate a specific domestic space but instead evokes a psychological terrain—one shaped by childhood, grief, joy, confusion, and instinct. It draws from a collective sense of the home as both sanctuary and stage, where identity is rehearsed and memory is continuously rewritten. Through this process, fiction and reality blend into one another; narratives mutate and overlap, and the act of storytelling becomes architectural in itself.

Installed within the crypt of The Mount Without, The House We Built invites viewers to step inside this constructed interior. The subterranean setting amplifies the work’s emotional resonance, mirroring the layered, subterranean nature of memory itself. What is visible on the surface—drawn lines, painted vessels, fragmentary figures—offers only a glimpse into what lies beneath.

This exhibition does not seek to reconstruct a past life, but to inhabit the space between remembering and imagining. It’s a place where what has been half-forgotten becomes form again—quietly haunting, strangely familiar, and entirely alive.

Exhibition opening times

8th June - Preview night, invitation only

9th - 11th - Public view 10:00 - 17:00