There's No Place Like Home

From the Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection
11 Feb 2023 - 11 Oct 2023
Darren Siwes, Home Sweet Wirly Wirly (detail), 2006. Cibachrome on paper, 100 x 120cm. Purchased with funds from the annual acquisition budget provided by Warrnambool City Council, 2006.
Darren Siwes, Home Sweet Wirly Wirly (detail), 2006. Cibachrome on paper, 100 x 120cm. Purchased with funds from the annual acquisition budget provided by Warrnambool City Council, 2006.

Uttered as a wish or sometimes a lament, There’s no place like home  is a proverb that describes how we are bound to the imperfect, but comfortable and familiar surroundings of a place we might call home. In this exhibition the idea of Australia (home to an interwoven history of continuous culture, colonisation and recent migration), is interrogated and in this version, it’s not always comfortable or familiar. Mining the collection for the stories addressing our history and our connection to place There’s no place like home looks at both the good and the bad as equal threads in the story of this nation.  

 

Download There's no place like home exhibition catalogue here.

Education Resources

Exploring the themes: Part One of a three part series sharing curatorial insights about the Warrnambool Art Gallery's collection exhibition ‘There’s no place like home’.

The Bicentennial Prints: Part Two of a three part series sharing curatorial insights about the Warrnambool Art Gallery's collection exhibition ‘There’s no place like home’.

Tower Hill then and now: Part Three of a three part series sharing curatorial insights about the Warrnambool Art Gallery's collection exhibition ‘There’s no place like home’.