Exhibition Design of a travelling display touring five librairies across Newham. Custom House, Our House captures over two decades of community-led resistance to gentrification in Custom House, East London.

Led by artist Jessie Brennan and Denise Evans-Barr from Custom House Bookshop, the exhibition brings together residents, shopkeepers, and community organisers who have lived, worked, and mobilised for a regeneration that benefits its long-standing communities. Through 12 oral history interviews and commissioned photography, intergenerational local voices share stories of housing struggles, cultural memory, collective action and belonging.

Custom House, Our House Project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Principal Investigator: Jessie Brennan
Publication Design: Joseph Pochodzaj
Photographs: Matthew Booth and Makar Polovinka