No Place Like Home is a collaborative work by Broken Home Collective (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 will be
displayed at the International Festival of Glass in Stourbridge, UK, from August 23rd to 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.
In February this year we came together in Silvia’s studio in Italy for an self-funded experimental workshop to share our ideas and decide how we can work together to make a collaborative installation to highlight this topic. Our final installation will be revealed at the International Festival of Glass in August and Alison, Olga and Linda will travel to the festival to give a presentation and workshop on Friday 23rd August on behalf of the Collective about our experience of working with glass as activist artists. Olga will also speak about living as an artist in Ukraine, a war zone, where her home is under daily threat. Broken Home would like to thank the International Festival of Glass for giving us the opportunity to present our work.
Silvia has set up a Go Fund Me page to fund the expenses of presenting this work. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed so far to supporting this work. To contribute please click here.
All workshop photos by Paolo Sacchi