ABANDONED objects are being given a new lease of life thanks to an artist’s exhibition.

Cait Sweeney will be displaying a range of everyday items that have been thrown away and she is inviting people to adopt them.

The Broken Home Collection will show hundreds of objects, from a bathroom sink to a 1960s cream telephone, all of which have been donated or collected.

Those who adopt an item by donating £10, £20 or £50 will be able to write down a memory associated with that object. These will be catalogued in a book Ms Sweeney hopes to collate.

Ms Sweeney, 46, from Littlemore, said: “It is an eclectic collection of household objects spanning the last 100 years or so.

“Initially it started off as a collection of things people had put out for collection in their gardens or stuff charity shops couldn’t sell.

“But then people were able to donate objects. It is about objects and memories and how objects can connect us to memories.”

This is the fifth time the display will take place since the first exhibition in 2010. The objects will be displayed in three, 2m high wooden cubes at the Old Fire Station in George Street, Oxford.

It opens on Friday, May 3, at 5.30pm and will run Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm, ending on until Sunday, June 2.

For more information, visit brokenhomecollection.co.uk