- Venue
- Rickerby Park
- Date
- Monday, June 1, 2009
- Location
- North West England
Throughout June, a giant inflatable house will be making unexpected appearances around Cumbria. With windows protected by metal grilles against burglary and vandalism, this house 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. The condemned house is being given a final lease of life by the Cumbrian artist Maddi Nicholson as 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.The house will finally 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, a film which makes reference to the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs' and other recent works by Maddi Nicholson. Please check the Tullie House website, http://www.tulliehouse.co.uk/, or call 01228 618718 on the day of the tour for updates to avoid disappointment. Going Home From Here has been commissioned by Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery and supported by Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts.
