No Place Like Home is a collaborative work by Broken Home Collective and includes original glass art by Alison Lowry from Northern Ireland, Olga Turetska from Ukraine, Linda Norris from Wales, Maria Scarognina and Silvia Levenson, from Italy. The work investigates the home as a place of fear and is currently displayed at the International Festival of Glass in Stourbridge, UK, until September 28th 2024.
Some 47,000 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members in 2020. This means
that, on average, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family every 11 minutes (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report 2021). An estimated 160,000 children in England are currently living in households where domestic abuse is taking place (Women’s Aid, 2024) . Using art to draw attention to this issue is the aim of the Broken Home Collective. We come from all over Europe and the epidemic of violence against women is the same everywhere.
