HOME|LAND

Taking up residence in a metaphorical sharehouse in the midst of Hobart’s housing boom/crisis, six artists of lutruwita/Tasmania: Richie Cuskelly, Georgia Lucy, Caleb Nichols-Mansell, Flo Robinson, Nunami Sculthorpe-Green, and Priya Vunaki, ruminate on the underlying strata and structures of “home” and “land” and the authority of “heritage” as a practice of selective memory.

“Sometime during the nights of Hobart’s lockdown, our sharehouse in Mount Stuart was faced with the decision of asking for a rent reduction. My two housemates had been stood down from their jobs, meanwhile higher on the hill, construction works had begun in earnest for four new townhouses . . . A house had come down. And two ‘significant’ trees . . . We were/are in the midst of [a] housing boom/crisis.”

Richie Cuskelly, On Good Authority, 2022, digital image. Courtesy the artist and Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart

Contemporary Art Tasmania
23 September to 30 October 2022
Hobart

HELP DESK:
subscribe@artistprofile.com.au | PH: +612 8227 6486