What’s Your Cup of Tea, Commissioned by the Museum of the Home, 2021-22

What’s your Cup of Tea? is a social practice artwork, commissioned by the Museum of the Home, creating a bespoke tea for the community and the museum. Working with the borough and residents of Arden Estate we will be creating a Hackney tea blend. By mid 2022, we will be offering our tea, for free, every Friday to local’s using our specially designed Tea trike, where we will be inviting the public to become active members of the museum community. 

Making a cuppa is rooted in British culture and custom; familiar, comforting and welcoming. Sharing tea is deeply social, representing a moment you feel welcomed and invited into a home. Making tea for yourself can be about giving yourself time; a moment of pause. Within the context of the Museum of the Home, Tea touches on the history of Sir Robert Geffrye’s wealth from the East India Company, notions around Britishness and cultural imports, and of Empire.

Our bespoke tea reflects the culture and history of Hackney, and will be served every Friday, as part of Free Tea Fridays, inviting local residents to come in, feel at home, and become active members of the museum community.