Laura McCluskey
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Laura McCluskey’s Close to Home is a sustained meditation on family, place, and the passage of time. Produced over a decade on the Isle of Sheppey, the work centres on the artist’s grandparents and their home at 13 Acorn Street, a site that functions as both a physical and emotional anchor. McCluskey’s photographs register the gradual transformation of domestic space alongside the realities of ageing, foregrounding the tension between attachment and inevitability. The sequencing resists sentimentality, instead allowing small shifts in light, texture, and environment to articulate a broader reflection on continuity and loss. In this context, photography becomes both a record and a means of negotiation, offering a measured account of reconciliation shaped through sustained attention.
