Maddi was a featured Artist on Artisancam, there is an interactive look at her making 'Everything that Begins Must Come to an End' (shown above), to view this video please click here.

Going Home From Here

During June, look out for a giant inflatable house appearing near you.

'Going Home From Here' in Keswick, Cumbria. Maddi Nicholson (UK), 2009 Photograph courtesy of Rob Fraser.

This house, with windows protected by metal grilles against burglary and vandalism, is the embodiment of urban decay and could have been extracted from any street of any northern town. In fact, it is a scale model of a terraced house in Barrow-in-Furness currently awaiting demolition.

'Going Home From Here' in Keswick, Cumbria. Maddi Nicholson (UK), 2009 Photograph courtesy of Rob Fraser.

The condemned house is being given a final lease of life by artist Maddi Nicholson as, throughout June, she takes its inflated doppelganger on a tour of outside sites in Cumbria, exploring the relationships between this single house extracted from a terrace and each new environment.

Finally, the house will come to rest in Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle. There, from 26 September – 6 December 2009, it takes its place alongside billboard images of the house’s Cumbrian odyssey and other recent works by Maddi Nicholson. The exhibition explores the relationships between the personal and the public, home and regeneration.

To know where the house will be appearing in June, check out www.tulliehouse.co.uk and go to the Maddi Nicholson page under ‘Exhibitions’. Alternatively, call Fiona Venables at Tullie House on 01228 618734. For further information about Maddi Nicholson, visit www.artgene.co.uk.

'Going Home From Here' in Siddick. Maddi Nicholson (UK), 2009 Photograph courtesy of Rob Fraser.

Going Home From Here has been commissioned by Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery and supported by Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts.

(Logos: Tullie House, Carlisle CC, Cumbria CC, ACE Lottery, MLA, Renaissance NW, recycled paper)

Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery
Castle Street, Carlisle, CA3 8TP
T: 01228 618718

Exhibition open
26 September – 6 December 2009
Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm, Sunday 12pm – 5pm

For information about the current project Roker Seafront please click here.