Home Truths: Comfort/DIScomfort

Bokani (b. 1987) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes abstract glass painting and computational installations. She holds a master’s in computational art from Goldsmiths College, University of London.  Bokani has shown at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, across the UK, France and USA. Her stained-glass paintings are meticulously crafted layers of enamel paint on glass. The works draw the viewer contemplatively into the piece through a distorted reflection of the metaphysical self and environment. The immersive quality of the paintings creates a liminal space in which new realities seem tantalisingly within reach.

Mandy El-Sayegh (b. 1985) is a Malaysian–British artist who works across diverse media to examine how social, cultural and political orders are formed and deconstructed in the contemporary world. In large-scale paintings, table vitrines, immersive installations, performances and videos, she collages disparate fragments of information together, interrogating the ways that meaning might emerge from the relationship between these different source materials. El-Sayegh describes her process as 'preoccupied with part-whole relations'. As she assembles diverse materials (or 'parts') into a realised artwork ('the whole'), she enacts a cumulative process by which meanings come into being. She lives and works in London, where she received a BA in fine art from the University of Westminster in 2007, and an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art in 2009. Her first solo show was held at London's Chisenhale Gallery in 2019. She has participated in exhibitions at Art Basel Parcours (2024); Overbeck-Gesellschaft - Kunstverein Lübeck (2023); Tichy Ocean Foundation, Zürich (2023); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2023); UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles (2022); Busan Biennale (2020); Sursock Museum, Beirut (2019); SculptureCenter, Long Island City (2019), among many others.

Lindsey Mendick (b.1987) works primarily with ceramics, embedding her sculptures within installations that include stained glass, film, furniture, large stage sets and performance. She received a BA from Sheffield Hallam University and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London. Her autobiographical work offers a form of catharsis, encouraging the viewer to explore their own personal history through the revisionist lens of the artist. She was the recipient of the Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award in 2020, the Alexandra Reinhardt memorial award in 2018 and was also selected for Jerwood Survey in 2019 and the Future Generations Art Prize in 2020. Mendick has participated in solo and group exhibitions at Jupiter Artland, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Hayward Gallery, Carl Freedman Gallery, Somerset House, Jeffrey Deitch, Cooke Latham, Hannah Barry Gallery, among others. With her partner, the artist Guy Oliver, Mendick initiated Quench Gallery in Margate to provide vital support for early career artists through exhibitions and mentoring 

Emily Steer is a London-based arts and culture journalist. She was online editor and then editor of biannual art magazine Elephant for eight years, and has written for titles including Artnet, AnOther, BBC Culture, the Financial Times, Frieze, Harper’s Bazaar, and Wallpaper. Her writing explores the intersection of art and mental health. Emily is currently training to be a psychodynamic psychotherapist and has experience working with clients around suicidal ideation and sexual trauma. 

Gaynor Tutani (Art Adlib) is a curator, producer, and writer who integrates her passions for arts, culture, community, and education into exhibitions, events, and art commentary. Specializing in public programming, she hosts live performances, talks, interviews, and poetry sessions. As Museum of the Home's Creative Programming Officer, Gaynor aligns the Museum’s programming with its core values, engaging communities through art that addresses critical societal issues. She co-founded EARTHworks, a curatorial duo focused on fostering intergenerational creative collaborations. Gaynor holds a BA in History and an MA in Museum Cultures with a focus on decolonial curating.