alex crocker

Install images from Hãm (Home. House. Village.)

635 London Road South, Pakefield a semi detached house built around 1900 which appears to have remained largely unchanged for decades. Swirly carpets, floral wallpaper and an overgrown garden remain, but there is little that resembles a functioning kitchen or bathroom.

Tricia Hall invited artists to show in the pause between renovating and making it a home.

I have been making a series of small paintings of figures in domestic interiors, watching television, looking at paintings, gazing out of windows, among other things. It feels connected to this idea of making a home, of inhabiting a space and being shaped by it.

Image 1/2: Ladder, Oil on linen,  20cm × 35.5 cm, 2024.
Image 3/4: Night, oil on linen, 20cm x 35cm, 2023. 
Image 5/6: Paul’s Television, distemper and oil on cotton, 20cm x 35cm, 2023.

All Photos: Debby Besford