In Conversation: Creative Practice in the Home

As part of the Home Based Situated Practice programme, on Saturday 9 May, DASH held a hybrid event at Compton Verney coinciding with the group exhibition Troublemakers and Prophets: Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists which included the new commission, Potions For My Animated Life, a film by Grace Currie made in collaboration with Aaron Child.

The event began with an in-conversation between Ila Colley, Folk Art Curator at Compton Verney and DASH Creative Producer Lucy Mounfield to discuss the home-based practice of Elizabeth Allen (1883-1967) whose textile work Population Explosion is held in the Folk Art Collection at Compton Verney. They also discussed their collaboration between the two organisations on the pilot Home Based Situated Practice programme which took place earlier in 2026 with Grace Currie as inaugural Artist-in-Residence.

In the second half of the day, DASH screened Grace Currie’s new film, Potions For My Animated Life and Currie joined Colley and Mounfield remotely to share an insight into her home-studio practice and her creative relationship with Creative Enabler Simon Woolham.

For anyone who missed the live event, the recording is now available to watch via the DASH YouTube channel:

Content Warning:
This event recording may include a discussion of a road traffic accident and include details of a brain injury and other related physical injuries. It may touch on themes such as hospitalisation, pain and medication.​​​​​​​

The recording has captions and BSL.

You can watch Grace Currie’s film, Potions For my Animated Life here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIq1Mh1hfSY​​​​​​​

Creative Practice in the Home was generously supported using public funding by Arts Council England, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Compton Verney.