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THROUGH most of the last year, we’ve all been forced to focus on the homes in which we live. How do we really feel about these places? Might art help us re-imagine them? Artist Robbie Bushe, shortlisted for the prestigious John Moores Prize, talks to Susan Mansfield about his work FOR most of this lockdown year, artist Robbie Bushe has been working on “Dwell”, his major solo exhibition currently online at Edinburgh’s Open Eye Gallery. In it, he paints all the places he has lived, from early childhood (he phoned family members for advice) to his current home in south-west Edinburgh. “It’s been something ridiculous like 29 houses in 57 years,” he smiles.