Unpacking Home explores how migrants to Australia create belonging in new places through gestures, objects, and daily acts that transform displacement into connection.
Across three parts, the exhibition moves from the material to the emotional: from the interior spaces of settlement to the wider landscapes of belonging. Through artworks and objects drawn from the Gallery’s collection, Unpacking Home considers how people make, sustain, and see home.
Centred on women’s labour — domestic, social, and cultural — the exhibition recognises the often unseen work that holds families and communities together. It reveals home not as a fixed destination, but as a continuous act of care: a process of making the unfamiliar familiar, of turning arrival into belonging.
Image: Jennifer Wray, #11 Suitcases, 1998. Charcoal. Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased in 1998.
Latrobe Regional Gallery
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