The Price of Home
Piccalilli•Aug 21, 2026 — Sep 26, 2026
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Concerned with the cryptic symbology of personally relinquished objects, Michael Andrew Page augments private yearnings into an antiquarian practice of local microhistory. In his work he examines a range of sources spanning centuries drawing on literary accounts, physical remnants and parental mythologies.
Deployable tensile architecture has been a dominant recurring theme in Page’s work; in his previous “Bivvy” series, the material and aesthetic characteristics of the form acted as an antithesis of gothic vaulting, mass congregation and gravitational consequences. The Price of Home brings together a group of works that expand to encompass further temporal structures acquitted from the familial landscape. Once the discursive subjects for many a disgruntled East-Anglican, these artefacts, monuments and seemingly sempiternal leisure outlets formerly provided the backdrop for poets, fictional grieving widows and teenage greebos.
Functioning as preliminary signals for enquiry, Page expands…
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The Price of Home
Piccalilli•Aug 21, 2026 — Sep 26, 2026
Press Release
Concerned with the cryptic symbology of personally relinquished objects, Michael Andrew Page augments private yearnings into an antiquarian practice of local microhistory. In his work he examines a range of sources spanning centuries drawing on literary accounts, physical remnants and parental mythologies.
Deployable tensile architecture has been a dominant recurring theme in Page’s work; in his previous “Bivvy” series, the material and aesthetic characteristics of the form acted as an antithesis of gothic vaulting, mass congregation and gravitational consequences. The Price of Home brings together a group of works that expand to encompass further temporal structures acquitted from the familial landscape. Once the discursive subjects for many a disgruntled East-Anglican, these artefacts, monuments and seemingly sempiternal leisure outlets formerly provided the backdrop for poets, fictional grieving widows and teenage greebos.
Functioning as preliminary signals for enquiry, Page expands…































































