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Gallery Cafe St Margaret’s House
01/11
Home is both anchor and question. This exhibition shares personal stories of migration, intimacy, and landscape and fantasy, asking what home means when it is always moving, remembered, and remade.
Home Is? brings together artists who look at what home means when it is both familiar and far away, solid and shifting. For some, it is found in childhood fields, family houses, or the quiet rhythm of ancestral landscapes. For others, it lives in movement; between countries, languages, between reality and fantasy.
The works in this exhibition are built from memory, belonging, and the everyday. They show how the smallest details can carry us back: a familiar smell, a colour, a light, the shape of a room, the sound of a voice. Home can be the comfort of a partner, the safety of community, or the rituals of faith. It can also be fragile, unsettled, and hard to hold onto.
What unites these artists is the act of looking closely. They walk, observe, and remember. Some began as personal notes, others as long-term explorations. All of them hold on to something that might otherwise be lost: moments of intimacy, traces of family life, connections to the land, or the silence between generations and the magic of the imagination.
Together, these perspectives remind us that home is not one fixed thing. It shifts as we move through life, as we leave and return, as we build and rebuild. It can live in a place, a person, a memory, or in the space between all three.
Home Is? invites you to step into these stories and to ask yourself the same question: what does home mean to you—now, here, in this moment?
Doorway with a girl – 21 × 29.7 cm,