Fabric of Home

Fabric of Home opens at Exeter Phoenix on Wednesday 11 November, running through to Sunday 27 December. It's in the Walkway Gallery, and it's free to visit.

The exhibition is a collection of personalised textile banners made by community artists from Refugee Support Devon and Hikmat, with a public banner also on display. Each one is a response to the question 'What does home mean to you?', and together they tell stories of welcome, longing and belonging. The banners grew out of creative textile workshops led by local artist Aga Eden at RAMM in the summer of 2026, run for members of the Exeter community while Quirk Theatre was developing its new festive show, Yeti. The workshops took their cue from flags and banners from cultures around the world, and the banners hanging here come from those sessions and from a public banner-making event at RAMM.

Quirk Theatre is based in Exeter and is known for imaginative theatre for children and families that puts collaboration at the heart of its creative process, co-creating its annual festive productions with young people from the local community. Yeti is a family adventure set in the town of Little Trusting that explores friendship, courage and what it means to truly belong. The exhibition shares that same thread, turning the question of home into something you can see and touch.

It runs daily from 11 November to 27 December at the Walkway Gallery in Exeter Phoenix, and entry is free.