London artist turns home into museum with thousands of dolls and discarded objects

The House of Dreams Museum began in 1998. Image Credit: Stephen Wright official website A London artist has spent decades turning his home into a dense and colourful record of his life, covering walls, ceilings and outdoor spaces with thousands of discarded and collected objects. Stephen Wright’s House of Dreams in East Dulwich began as a creative project in the late 1990s but gradually became something far more personal. Broken dolls, false teeth, glasses, bottles, ceramics and handwritten memories now form an ever-growing environment shaped by travel, relationships, grief and everyday experiences. Instead of simply decorating his home, Wright has used the space to preserve memories and give unwanted objects a new place to belong.London artist turned his home into the House of DreamsAccording to Wright’s own House of Dreams website, the museum began in 1998 and was initially inspired by the television programme Journeys into the Outside, presented by Jarvis Cocker. The programme introduced Wright to outsider art environments and helped spark the idea of transforming his own surroundings into something permanent.According to RawVision, which profiled Wright’s work in 2015, he start...