Artist Martha Orbach's exhibition - To Build a Home

GLASGOW. Glasgow Women’s Library.

Glasgow-based artist Martha Orbach, at her exhibition, To Build a Home at Glasgow Women’s Library.


To Build a Home by Glasgow-based artist Martha Orbach, opening Thursday 30 October (5-7pm) and running until 17 January 2026.

The exhibition explores the process of homemaking in times of environmental, personal, and societal crisis - asking what it means to create stability and care amid uncertainty. Using domestic debris and biomaterials, Orbach creates fragile, poetic “little attempts at home,” inspired by her Jewish heritage, radical environmentalist upbringing, and experiences of motherhood.

Developed in collaboration with Caroline Dear, Victoria Mitchell, Lucy Cathcart Fröden and the Joyous Choir at Maryhill Integration Network, the show reflects on repair, waste, and belonging - blending the radical and the domestic in what Orbach describes as “Baba Yaga’s hut in a shade of Farrow & Ball.”