Exhibitions

Homeground: Continuing Connections bring together the Kurec family in a deeply personal and intimate exhibition at Latrobe Regional Gallery. This special presentation traces the many threads that bind identity, culture, and kinship across distance and time. Inviting visitors into a shared space of memory, resilience and belonging.

Centred in Ukrainian heritage and grounded in Gippsland, Victoria, the exhibition reflects a lineage shaped by migration, loss and preservation. Across generations, the Kurec family have carried forward customs of rituals, stories, and forms of creativity that are, quite simply, in the blood. Their practices speak to the endurance of culture in the face of upheaval, and to the quiet power of domestic life as a vessel for history.

Through sculpture, painting, photography, performance, installation, family artefacts; heirlooms and ephemera, moving image, poetry and traditional design, this exhibition becomes a living archive – a recollection of memories. Everyday objects, sit alongside contemporary expressions, revealing how ancestral knowledge is tended, adapted and reimagined.

Tales of Ukrainian folklore motifs echo through material choices; the garden and the home as symbols of arrival and rituals. Homeground honours the complexity of finding home whether in a landscape, a community, a language or the gestures passed form hand to hand – from generation to generation.

The exhibition recognises and anchors Gippsland as a place of new beginnings and intergenerational connection. This exhibition invites guests to reflect on their own family stories, and the fragile yet resilient strands that shape who we are.

Image: Katerina Kurec, Yellow Daisies and Purple Salvias, Texta on paper. Circa 1970 – 1993. Dimensions variable. Photo documentation by Kiera Brew Kurec.