AMP Art collective

AMP Art Collective seek to give people an intimate sense of the lives of others by creating experiential spaces. By collaborating, we help one another to recognise the links between complex personal experiences and reductive popular narratives of who we are. Our first project is refuge/e - see more at www.projectrefugee.co.uk Refuge/e transports a shelter from Lebanon to locations around the UK, travelling from Yorkshire, Gateshead to the South-East. Learning first-hand from displaced Syrians, the shelter is constructed using a combination of emergency shelter kits and local materials. The tent is furnished with plaster and brass castings of possessions typically found in these homes and is covered with old plastic advertising boards, now used for insulation. Through the space visitors will hear the unfiltered voices of refugees speaking about their daily experiences, illustrating the struggle for normality – cooking, cleaning and learning – amid the fragments of displaced lives. Supported by Arts Council England, UNHCR, the British Council, the Art Fund, the A. M. Qattan Foundation and individual donations.