The Front Room Scotland and how artists can

Scotland and how artists can intervene in political debate

Giving contemporary viewers an effective way to think about art

and primary sources ranging from memoirs to popular journals

co-published with the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR)

and then living within

The Front Room Scotland and how artists canThe Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home, originally published in 2009, has become a beloved and much praised source, providing fascinating revelations into the post war British experience of immigrants, the decoration of their living spaces and their position in society in relation to decolonisation. The 'front room' (emanating from the Victorian parlour) provides an outlet to respond to the feelings of displacement, exile and