Justine Hounam
Justine Hounam is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture and film. Hounam’s practice explores themes of memory, domesticity, and the physical traces of human presence through casting everyday objects and furniture. Using materials such as fabric, household paint, and varnish, her work preserves imprints that transform familiar forms into sculptural skins. By capturing absence as much as presence, her pieces evoke personal histories and emotional resonance, reflecting on relationships, home, and lived experience.
Justine Hounam’s filmmaking extends her exploration of memory, domesticity, and personal history into moving images. She creates short films shot from a bird’s-eye view, capturing mundane domestic activities with an almost voyeuristic detachment. These intimate yet distanced perspectives highlight the routines and imprints of daily life, transforming ordinary gestures into meditations on presence, absence, and emotional weight. By using personal and domestic environments as a lens, Hounam’s films subtly engage with broader societal and political themes, questioning the boundaries between private and public, personal and collective experience.
Lived Experience
Hounam is the founder and director of Both Gallery, an artist-led gallery in North London (founded in 2023). BOTH's aims to showcase emerging, underrepresented, and marginalised artists while serving as a hub for creative dialogue within local and creative communities. Hounam has co-curated and exhibited in numerous joint exhibitions, most notably In-Out in Stratford, London (2024), The Colour of Memory, Bomb Factory Art Foundation (2022), Straw For Nothing, Round Tower, Portsmouth (2023), and Mother of All, BOTH Gallery, London (2023). Hounam also participated in Sorry About The Mess, London, curated by Millie Walton (2025). Commissions include an installation at the National Trust’s Rainham Hall, and Hounam has attended residencies at Cove Park, Scotland (2022) and The Hide, Cotswolds (2025).
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