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Mind the Gap

An exhibition exploring neurodivergent overwhelm, in collaboration with artist Alison Lam and curator Celina Loh.

Date

Tuesday 19 August - Sunday 19 October 2025

Price

Free

A close up installation view of artworks featuring a large folded paper lotus forms in warm yellow and smaller ones in ivory, scattered across a smooth floor. The image is overlaid with a graphic of calligraphic fonts.
Exhibitions

About the exhibition

Since 2015, Alison Lam has been working with neurodivergent communities in the UK to share and connect over stories that navigate the sensory, emotional and practical challenges of the everyday.

Mind the Gap explores the experience of overwhelm from neurodivergent perspectives, highlighting the often invisible emotional and practical labour. Focusing on the challenge of preparing to leave home and navigate the world outside, Lam’s question ‘How was your journey here today?’ invites all audiences to reflect on how even the simple act of leaving and arriving can carry deep emotional weight.

Mind the Gap is co-created with neurodivergent participants, reframing overwhelm as a space of resilience instead of a purely negative experience. Like a lotus blooming from muddy waters, a recurring symbol in Lam’s work, neurodivergent individuals navigate cycles of overwhelm with strength and grace. 

Lam’s adaptation at Museum of the Home builds on previous work shown at SEESAW, Manchester and Westminster Reference Library, London. Mind the Gap sheds light on hidden experiences of the home by inviting audiences to think of the home not just as a physical space but as a feeling, a negotiation and an experience shaped by identity and circumstance. Drawing on symbols around doors and windows, Mind the Gap at the Museum considers the thresholds where calm meets chaos and where home can feel both protective and confining. 

Through this adaptation, Alison Lam invites everyone to experience the world through a neurodivergent lens, offering a chance to engage and reflect with an important yet often invisible human experience. 

This exhibition is co-curated with Celina Loh of In Transit Space CIC and ESEA Programme at Museum of the Home.

Events programme

Events

Mind the Gap – Opening Ceremony

Join us for the opening of Mind the Gap exhibition, with a short film screening and talk from Alison Lam and Celina Loh, plus food by Otis Darlington.

Thursday 21 August

Free

Mind the Gap – Opening Ceremony
Child leaning over a large collaborative artwork on the floor, adding a colourful paper creation made from craft materials; other participants are seated at tables in the background during a creative workshop.

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