The Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf will be closed for the Anzac Day public holiday (Friday 25 April 2025). We look forward to welcoming you on Saturday 26 April.
Image: Detail of Amber Koroluk-Stephenson, Musical Chairs (2025).
Homing Instincts explores the universal pull towards home, drawing on personal and collective experiences of displacement and belonging. Inspired by the hermit crab's innate ability to navigate and adapt to new environments, this exhibition presents a new body of paintings that reflect on the continuous formation of home. In response to the growing need for safe and accessible housing, this exhibition invokes poetics and play to examine the intersections between environmental and social issues. By exploring the resilience of individuals and communities, this exhibition invites viewers to contemplate the complex, multifaceted nature of home and our innate desire to belong.
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s practice examines the value and significance of identity, place and belonging, and ways cultural significance is constructed and exchanged, but also sometimes lost. Informed by an ongoing fascination with the intersections between natural and built environments, and slippages between histories, fictions and popular culture, her work seeks the human desire for connection to make visible what is out of sight. Amber has exhibited widely in Australia including group and solo exhibitions at Bett Gallery, Devonport Regional Gallery, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Cement Fondu, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Moonah Arts Centre and Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.
This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.