Press // Home-Maker // Jeanie Finlay

Press


This largely unprecedented, highly novel approach to portaiture brings up all kinds of touching details of life as it is lived between four walls, amid the dreadfully small collections of significant belongings, haunted by the enduring presence of lost loved ones.... Read full review Mick Martin, The Guardian.	There’s a lot of poignancy in Home-Maker....a quiet celebration of the dignity to be found at the centre of a life if only one cares to ask the right questions.... Read full review Mark Patterson, Nottingham Evening Post.	Jeanie Finlay’s Home-Maker is something of a miracle, actually making pensioners seem interesting. The whole experience is extremely absorbing and reminds you just how fascinating seemingly ordinary lives can be – like reality TV but without feeling as if you want to punch the people you’re watching. Read full review 4/5 Metro, Newcastle
Much closer to the characters than a standard documentary would allow, the format makes the prospect of being offered a cup of tea and asked if we’re ‘courting’ yet seem only a moment away. Read full review Wayne Burrows Metro, Nottingham	Modern culture’s long-standing obsession with youth makes Nottingham-based artist Jeanie Finlay’s interest in the lives and voices of the elderly something of a rarity Read full interview Metro, Nottingham	Finlay’s Home-Maker takes the domestic space as a way of uncovering intimate truths about private and social identity, while Barker’s hugely influential Signs Of The Times used the apparently whimsical device of ordinary people talking about their interior décor to expose all the class and gender prejudices of the British. Read full preview Metro, Nottingham
Part oral history, part documentary, Home Maker builds on the relationships that Finlay established... Elayne Zalis, At Home with Cyber space PHD Read full extract	Second hand shops are filled with once-loved objects, detached from their owners and their history and transformed into bric-a-brac. It was this process that artist Jeanie Finlay wanted to capture as she dismantled her Home-Maker exhibition at Newcastle’s Hatton Gallery. Read full review Hannah Collier, Newcastle Evening Chronicle
A highly skilful piece of work, well thought out and spectacularly delivered... Undeniably poignant and interesting... Kate Dobson, Virtual Lancaster	...a new way of thinking about portraiture. The successful blending of new media with Finlay’s key questions makes each reader feel as though she or he is a guest, sitting down for a cup of tea, immersed the detail of each room and voice. Read full interview Jess Lacetti, Furtherfield