artists dealing with family/ place.

The family may turn your world upside down or be a safe haven of unconditional acceptance , but it is always an almost palpable receptacle for memory and self.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_/ai_93213733





Dysfunctional Family
Yinka Shonibare
1999

Shonibare uses exploration of status, alienation, and multiculturalism. He uses the creatures to play on the notion of the foreign--or "alien"--in today's social fabric.

http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/8882



'untitled' / 'ray's a laugh',
1995 © richard billingham
courtesy scalo books
http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/billingham.html


Billingham takes candid photos of his family in the uk.
Housebound, alcoholic father Ray who drinks his own homebrew, tattooed, oversized mother Elizabeth, brother Jason and their assorted pets - as they live out their life in their small council flat in the Midlands of Britain.



using old family photos of both his family or that of his partner, this depicts the artist's vacillation between shame and pride.
http://www.tcmhi.org/ex_fhfilipino-american.htm#