The Department of Tourism and Culture’s Araluen Arts Centre is proud to present Dream of Home, an exhibition by Alice Springs artist Jennifer Taylor, along with artists from Tangentyere Artists, Areyonga Artists and Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, opening Thursday 5 July.

“Jennifer Taylor is the inaugural recipient of Araluen Cultural Precinct Creative in Residence program, offered by Arts NT,” Senior Director of the Department of Tourism and Culture’s Araluen Cultural Precinct, Dr. Mark Crees said.

“The residency creates an opportunity for an NT artist to gain intimate access to the Araluen Art Collection and develop a body of work in response. Dream of Home is the result of Jenny’s residency.”

The exhibition features works by these artists alongside key works from the Araluen permanent Collection. All are an articulation of the multifaceted idea of what home means, individually and across cultures.

For Taylor, one work from the Araluen Art Collection, Noel McKenna’s 1991 painting A woman’s dream, was the catalyst for her residency, and her artistic investigation into what home means.

Understanding the great complexity of a concept of ‘home’, and sensitive to living in the home of Arrernte people, Taylor invited a number of artists frotrim Tangentyere Artists, Areyonga Artists and Yarrenyty Arltere Artists to join her in viewing and responding to works from the Araluen Art Collection.

“Each artist in this exhibition expresses a unique vision of home,” Taylor said. “Given the artists circumstances, some are poignant images. Together, they evoke diverse, complex meanings of home. They raise questions about how we create and sustain connections with home, how we respect each other’s need for home, and how we nurture a sense of belonging.”

The artworks present a vast array of representations of physical and psychological places and spaces, architectural structures, human interactions and the flora and fauna that we all weave into our ideas of home.

Dream of Home will be officially opened by Amelia Turner and Craig San Roque on Thursday 5 July at 6pm. On Saturday 21 July, an interactive conversation will take place in the gallery, with the audience encouraged to engage with the artists about their works.

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Artist, Jennifer Taylor, 0404 362 676 / 08 8953 2776