Flee 3 : Empirical Welcome

A chair: space to sit and rest. A flag: a symbol of nationhood and pride.

Flee 3: Empirical Welcome (2024)

Home is spelt in letters made from horse poo and tree resin - writ large as if it were a child’s playroom. The chair is empty, perhaps welcoming, except the ropes once used to ring church bells now have bombs attached. A flag dyed with walnut, madder and onion lays crinkled, at an awkward angle.

By 1914, the United Kingdom held 25% of the globe in its empire.

In 1965, saw the first Race Relations Law, where some acts of racial discrimination were made illegal.

Permission to live and work in the UK was not the same as welcomed. And traumas of our past will not be healed easily. The evidence palpable in current politics.   

Alice Kin thanks Scarborough Museums and Galleries and Project Manager Sara Novell for supporting emerging artists and the creation of this work.