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Artwork created by painting over the surface of a black and white photographic print with colourful paint. The artwork shows the original head of a man from the photograph beneath. The man is pictured from the chest up and is smiling off to the left. He is holding his right hand up into the air. The top of the image crops off his arm just above the wrist. Apart from his head, the rest of the image is a painted cream background covered in small green dots and large red helixes which resemble DNA structures running in lines diagonally from the top right to the bottom left. The individual's cloths are painted differently, with a blue background and covered in orange, pink and purple linked hexagons. Around his neck is a neckerchief painted a darker blue with purple zig-zag lines and yellow spots.

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Ancestry, privacy and the family tree

Wanting to find out more about her Jamaican grandfather, Tanya Perdikou contemplates DNA testing. But first she has to consider the potential impact of unexpected results.

Part of How to belong

Photograph of a warm wood grained, polished tabletop from above. Resting on the table, cutting diagonally across the top right corner is part of an unfolded map showing roads, lakes, and the contours of hills. Resting on the map are four three dimensional shapes, a red triangle, a light blue cube, a bright yellow star and a light green arrow. To the centre and bottom left of the image are three photographic prints with thin white borders. These photographs show mountain walking scenes looking over hills, rocky outcrops, valleys and lakes. In one of the photographs a lone figure can be seen looking out at the view.

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A walk through other people’s expectations

The steep path isn’t the only thing Caroline Butterwick has to navigate on her Lakeland hike. Always aware of other people’s expectations, she continually monitors how her disability might seem to strangers.

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Home

Make yourself comfortable in your own body.

Artwork created by painting over the surface of a black and white photographic print with colourful paint. The artwork shows the original heads of two individuals from the photograph, on the left an adult woman and on the right a young baby. The baby is being held in the adult's arms. Apart from the heads the rest of the image is a painted yellow background covered in small green, orange and blue dots. The individual's cloths are painted differently, the adult's has a green background with wavy orange horizontal lines and pink spots. The baby's is green with pink cell like patterns with red centres.

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Belonging and why we long for it

Tanya Perdikou’s upbringing emphasised conventional respectability, but other influential family members embraced the bohemian life. Caught between two sets of values, she questions where, if anywhere, she fits in.

Part of How to belong

An artwork that combines life drawings of figures in pencil, detailed ink pen elements and painted colour sections against a black background. The central figure is a detailed pencil life drawing of a naked woman turned slightly away, her arms are wrapped around herself as if in an embrace. She is surrounded by detailed black ink drawings of foliage and encapsulated within a pale pink circle. In each corner of the artwork there are detailed pencil life drawings of pairs of hands, differing in ages and ethnicity. The hands are holding and touching each other and appear against separate yellow circles. Each group of hands is connected by detailed white lines against the black background.

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Losing touch

In these pandemic times, when touch has become taboo, Agnese Reginaldo explores the importance of physical contact to our wellbeing.

The heart of homesickness

Gail Tolley uncovers the complexities of homesickness and explores why this condition is affecting so many people today more seriously than we might expect.