Katherine Hubbard – The Great Room

Using large-format cameras and experimental darkroom techniques, The Great Room is a profoundly personal series by interdisciplinary artist Katherine Hubbard in collaboration with her mother. In 2020 — a year defined by introspection, caretaking, and the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic — Hubbard's mother began experiencing severe memory loss, later diagnosed as LATE, a brain disease mimicking the symptoms of Alzheimer's. In collaboration with her mother, Hubbard transforms her family home — a space both overwhelming and deeply familiar — into a psychological landscape. These cluttered rooms  become a layered stage where her mother serves as partner in an ongoing exploration of the real and performed. Together, they create photographs that engage with daily rituals such as bathing, organising, and watching TV: compositions that blend seamlessly with unguarded intimacy. This photographic series ruptures the quotidian in an exploration of care work, memory, grief, and the entropy of loss.