A Roundup of our International Women's Day Exhibition "Homesick"

What does home really mean? Is it a place, a feeling, or something we carry with us?

Homesick, curated by Shirin Fathi for International Women's Day, invited 11 Sarabande artists to unravel this question—challenging the idea of home as a fixed, stable space and instead presenting it as something constantly built, dismantled, and reimagined.

Through sculpture, painting, installation, and performance, the exhibition explored themes of post-humanism, family, queerness, nomadism, and the body as an internal landscape of home. Some artists examined the physicality of home—through materials that evoke comfort, memory, or displacement—while others explored the emotional and psychological aspects of belonging, loss, and nostalgia. In Homesick, home was no longer just a place of shelter but something worn, carried, and continually reshaped, dissolving the boundaries between self and space.

Adele Brydges

This series explores the relationship between environment and body; the wilder and more intimate parts of ourselves- the seen and unseen. Through the materials- porcelain, stone, earth- it speaks to the place where we meet, merge and create something new. A dialogue of touch, trust and presence, it is an invitation to return to the body, to nature and to the deep knowing that lies within both.

Bex Massey

For Bex, home is an internal landscape shaped by her fertility journey, queer identity and experience with endometriosis. She documents this journey by exploring the body as a home turned inside out, reflecting the redefinition of a queer family and disruptions of endometriosis. Drawing from childhood memories of home and her northern upbringing, her work creates a visual echo, where one image finds release in its counterpart.

Helena Lacy

Helena's practise explores how objects shape our sense of home and belonging. Her work examines the personal and tactile connections we form with objects, considering how materiality, memory, and interaction influence our environment.

Jennifer Jones

Jennifer creates imagined scenarios and characters that straddle the boarder between real and invented, taken from reconstructed family photo archives. Jennifer's work examines nostalgia, memory and 'rose-tinted' pasts, and invites us to reflect on what secrets may remain hidden within the home.

Jia Xi LI

Jia Xi's work frames involuntary memories, revealing the complexity of domestic objects as repositories for existence, history and behaviour. Each piece encapsulates an archived time and memory, triggered by emotions and sense, embodying the intangible 'home' of a contemporary urban nomad. 

Kasia Wozniak

For Kasia, home is the body- through what we carry and what we leave behind. With her self-portraits, she explores how we inhabit both space and self, as well as the shifts we experience through our surroundings and emotions.

Mairi Millar

For Mairi, home is an ongoing search- one that unfolds through the collection of found objects that evoke familiarity, nostalgia and belonging. Mairi's work explores the beauty of natures discarded and "collaborating with chance", creating works from found natural objects. Her practise is an ode to the finder's treasure; from human hair to houseflies, she does not shy away from the macabre to find beauty and hope.

Rosie Gibbens

Rosies practise explores the slippery overlaps between identity, labour and consumer desire. Parabiosis was made during her pregnancy were she playfully envisions a prospective future home where she explores artificial wombs and the speculative idea of birthing robots. Rosies body becomes a home, where she is questioning the blurring boundaries between herself and her baby's body.

Semin Hong

Through mixed-media instilations, Semin explores relationships between people and their homes, especially in the context of migration. Semin attempts to navigate immigrant identity and belonging entwined with the concept of home.

Shan Hua

Shan takes a speculative approach to defining home by blending sound, video and text in a non-linear format. Dismantling traditional narratives, she questions the stability of identity and belonging. Through fragmented and layered storytelling, her work reveals how memory, technology and personal history shape the meaning of home and family.

Yijia Wu

Yijia explores everydayness, fluid notions of home and collective and individual experiences of migration. Through sculpture, installation and performance, she animates domestic, often mundane materials to create paradoxical situations from everyday life.

A huge congratulations to all the incredible artists involved with 'Homesick' and curator Shirin Fathi for bringing Homesick to life. On this International Women’s Day, we celebrated the strength, creativity, and perspectives of our artists. Their work reminds us that home is not just a physical space but a reflection of identity, memory, and experience—constantly shifting, evolving, and taking new forms.

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