Homesickness Series statement

In early 2010 I moved from a lifetime spent in busy metropolitan Melbourne to  Queensland. While I was prepared for adjustments, the feelings of displacement and dislocation were more profound than I had expected. My life felt unfamiliar in new ways and I did not feel ‘at home’.

As 2010 turned into 2011 and significant weather events in my new home state left many people isolated and homeless I started to think more generally about the idea of place as ‘home’, the yearning we all have for a place where we belong. From this came the homesickness series.

While many works are in my most familiar medium (oil on linen), thoughts of ‘the unfamiliar’ encouraged me to step my practice into unfamiliar areas through the use of new mediums; a small number of limited photographic prints are the result for the first time.

Amanda – 2011