Going Home

This exhibition brings together works which look at the idea of home from multiple perspectives. Greg Creek's 2021 work Killing Jar places us in a street of any Australian town, where the doors and windows are firmly shut and nature is something to be tamed and contained. In contrast, Betty Pumani in her work Antara, shows the ancestral land of her family in a complex interweaving of waterholes and rain-soaked rocks, while suggesting the best conditions under which to harvest witchetty grubs. Also harvesting food, Rupert Bunny's French peasants trudge home across a stream. While in calm Mediterranean waters, fishermen head home as the evening draws in.

In other works, terraces are warm and inviting, gardens are serene, studio's are quiet, but children on chairs are strangely menacing. Les Thornton's images of Castlemaine homes are similarly a little disquieting. Is that a UFO on Saint Street? David Frazer too evokes a sense of claustrophobia, imaging the edges of a town with homes, buildings and backyards in an unsettling state of suburban atrophy.

Artists include:
A M E Bale, Rupert Bunny, David Chapman, Greg Creek, Roy de Maistre, John Dent, Les Thornton, William Dobell, David Frazer, Ina Gregory, Percy Leason, John Longstaff, Geoff Lowe, Max Meldrum, Betty Pumani.