Saudade

Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize finalist 2021
‘Highly commended’ recipient in Emerging Artist category
30cm diameter
Oil, iridescent acrylic and iridescent pigment on panel

Home is the rare collision of a particular set of people, in a particular place, at a particular time which forms its own unique constellation. And once left, it can never be revisited. Some of those same stars may appear in a new constellation of home, but it will always be a permutation. Yourself, people, places—they all change. You move away; your people move away. A place where you once felt at home, now gives you the feeling of being a stranger: persistent restlessness, crisscrossing oceans, voluntary migration, floating in a liminal space, longing, always longing for something that you may never have again, maybe never had, but still carry with you.