Catherine Bertola

Home from home 2002 Screenprint on self cling pvc Dimensions variable Photo: Stephen Collins Commission by VANE, Newcastle as part of Capital, a series of works sited across the city. Budget: Self funded project Home from Home was a series of installations in three traditional public houses in Newcastle upon Tyne. Screen prints of net curtains made to look like the elegant etched glass panes, were placed in the windows, bringing a touch if domestic intimacy into an other wise public and traditionally male domain. On the surface the work appears to be a discreet part of the building, while at the same time remaining at odds with the space