Stephen Wright is the creator of the House of Dreams Museum in East Dulwich, London. The museum contains the most wonderful collection of crazy objects but it's also a diary of his life.
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00:00The work is very much about me and who I am, my sexuality, it's a diary of my life, all
00:15of the work is a diary of my life really.
00:20I'm Stephen Wright, I'm 63 years old, I'm the maker and creator and curator of the House
00:28of Dreams Museum in East Dulwich, London.
00:45The most difficult times in my life have been probably when I was a child, when I was at
00:49school and I was bullied for being fat and gay and different, which also made me tough
00:54and vulnerable at the same time.
01:00When I was a child I knew that I had something to say and because I'm dyslexic, making work
01:06and being creative is part of how I express myself because I don't actually express myself
01:11very well through words, so this really sums up what my being is about, who I am really.
01:25The House of Dreams was born in 1998, but it changed direction really through losing
01:31a partner and also losing my parents, so a lot of my early angst went into the House
01:38of Dreams.
01:43It comes from a deep place, it doesn't come from here.
01:54I'm a gay man, which is brilliant, and I'm in touch with my male and female side, certainly,
02:06and I quite like them both.
02:09So the House of Dreams obviously must reflect some of that.
02:17Yeah, my sexuality is in there somewhere, but it's not, you know, I'm not sort of waving
02:24a banner, it just is who I am.
02:38The House of Dreams is a project that will never be finished, it's like a hungry baby.
02:45Nearly all of the materials are collected from other countries, and then it's never
02:48enough anyway, you know, it'll never be enough.
02:58I'm giving a message to people that you can come through all of that difficulty and survive
03:05and use it in a positive way.
03:14The House of Dreams