ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended to provide background to the various discussions and references contained in the chapters of this book. At Home With Art Project had three formal aims to reconsider the home environment as a context for contemporary fine art and review ideas and values associated with the domestic. It also aims to explore the possibility of contemporary art reaching a wider public through work being made specifically for the home and describe the mass market objects made by contemporary artists. It is an artefact which questioned characteristic operations of the art world. The Arts Council of England’s New Audiences Programme provided support, and major players were Homebase, who met the cost of mass-producing the work of the sculptors and undertook to stock the work in their stores; Wimbledon School of Art which supported the research toward the production of prototypes; the Tate Gallery, London, which held an exhibition of the resultant work and the research processes underlying it.
