In conversation with Hannah Brandler unpacking the ‘Art on the Underground’ commission which is on view at Heathrow Terminal 4 until July 2025.
The Taste of Home is installed on a series of twenty-four billboards in the Piccadilly line ticket hall rotunda of Heathrow Terminal 4 station and brings together excerpts of a poem from the Poetry Translation Centre by Khaled Abdallah, ‘Seeds in Flight’, and Warsan Shire’s poem ‘Home’. These poetic fragments sit alongside ingredients which were discussed as ‘tastes of home’ during a series of photographic workshops I facilitated in the temporary accommodation. The final piece is a series of botanical artworks combining text and images originating from the use of techniques such as cyanotype and monoprinting.
The twenty-four artworks expand on the photographic collage technique that I used in the 2023 pocket Tube map artwork A Little Slice of Paradise, which was inspired by TfL’s history of staff cultivated station gardens. Rooted in solidarity, A Taste of Home mediates on the ways that compassion and food connects us, across oceans and beyond borders, and celebrates the cultures, languages and hopes which coalesce in London.