In Conversation: Creative Practice in the Home

Home Based Situated Practice Event, Saturday 9 May 2026

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, alongside her Creative Enabler Simon Woolham, joined Colley and Mounfield remotely to share an insight into the daily rituals of her home-studio practice.

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

Content Warning:
This event 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.

Watch Grace Currie’s film, Potions For my Animated Life.

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.