Domestic Dreams, Wayout Artspace, Kandos, 2026 ….
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8 March – 26 April 2026
EXHIBITION Opening: Saturday 7 March 4 - 6pm. Artist talk: 9 March 11am - 12noon. DOMESTIC DREAMS WAYOUT ARTSPACE 71 Angus Ave, Kandos. NSW Curated by: Steven Cavanagh and Nic Mason. Artists: Alejandro Alvarez-Mendez, Laura Baker, Tom Buckland, Spencer Calveley, Steven Cavanagh, Jaq Davies, Rebecca Dowling, Heather Dunn, Jay Elwell-Cook, Chelsea Fielding, June Golland, Brett Groves, Greg Hill, Nic Mason, Fleur MacDonald, Shani Nottingham, Brett Nutting, Lu Lu Wulf, Bridget Thomas, Andrew Regan, Jaiden Rutter, Ronda Sharpe, Julie Visible, Leanne Wicks. |
Domestic Dreams exhibition collateral with image of artwork by Tom Budkland.
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Domestic Dreams exhibition statement ...
Domestic Dreams is an exhibition that explores the home as both a physical environment and a psychological landscape shaped by longing, memory, and imagination. The exhibition brings together artists working across multi-media to investigate how domestic environments operate. While domestic spaces are often associated with routine and stability, they are equally places where dreams, both literal and metaphorical, take root. Homes are the sites where desires are nurtured, fears are confronted, and fantasies unfold, making the domestic a fertile terrain for creative and critical exploration.
Domestic environments hold the potential to nurture imagination, offering settings where ideas can be tested, reshaped, and brought to life. Home is often imagined as a place of rest and routine or a fertile site for creativity. An environment providing the rhythms, textures, and atmospheres that enable creative thought. Revealing to us a more fragile and intimate kind of existence, where experience is both political and personal.
Manifestations of the so-called ‘dream home’ asks us: whose dreams are fulfilled by the structures of domesticity, and whose dreams are excluded or deferred? Domestic spaces are never entirely stable. They are shaped as much by inner states of mind as by physical walls. For some, the domestic represents gendered and routine divisions of labour. Spaces for reliable hierarchies, where generational futures can be imagined and played out. For others, it is a site of unrealised aspiration and confinement or diasporic experiences that span geographies, memories, and the weight of inherited traditions.
Domestic Dreams expands the conversation around home beyond the practical and into the imaginative. Familiar yet estranged, it reveals the domestic as a place of contradiction. Where aspirations of comfort and belonging meet the dreams that shape how we live, how we love, and how we imagine our futures.
Domestic environments hold the potential to nurture imagination, offering settings where ideas can be tested, reshaped, and brought to life. Home is often imagined as a place of rest and routine or a fertile site for creativity. An environment providing the rhythms, textures, and atmospheres that enable creative thought. Revealing to us a more fragile and intimate kind of existence, where experience is both political and personal.
Manifestations of the so-called ‘dream home’ asks us: whose dreams are fulfilled by the structures of domesticity, and whose dreams are excluded or deferred? Domestic spaces are never entirely stable. They are shaped as much by inner states of mind as by physical walls. For some, the domestic represents gendered and routine divisions of labour. Spaces for reliable hierarchies, where generational futures can be imagined and played out. For others, it is a site of unrealised aspiration and confinement or diasporic experiences that span geographies, memories, and the weight of inherited traditions.
Domestic Dreams expands the conversation around home beyond the practical and into the imaginative. Familiar yet estranged, it reveals the domestic as a place of contradiction. Where aspirations of comfort and belonging meet the dreams that shape how we live, how we love, and how we imagine our futures.
Domestic Dreams exhibition images ...
Domestic Dreams installation images from Wayout Artspace including artworks of: Alejandro Alvarez-Mendez, Laura Baker, Tom Buckland, Spencer Calveley, Steven Cavanagh, Jaq Davies, Rebecca Dowling, Heather Dunn, Jay Elwell-Cook, Chelsea Fielding, June Golland, Brett Groves, Greg Hill, Nic Mason, Fleur MacDonald, Shani Nottingham, Brett Nutting, Lu Lu Wulf, Bridget Thomas, Andrew Regan, Jaiden Rutter, Ronda Sharpe, Julie Visible, Leanne Wicks.
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Nic Mason, The cheese grater and the banksia cone, 2022, oil on canvas, 76 x 76cm, photograph: Clare Lewis, private collection
The cheese grater and the banksia cone is part of a still life series where banksia cones and kitchenalia interact becoming equal players in almost-but-not-quite stories. Could it be that the grater is the nightmare of the banksia? The grater and the banksia certainly stand together oddly and relationally.
With these works I play with the still life genre of western painting in my questioning of how to better live with the land. Nature and culture coalesce in my mind evicting binary modes of thinking. Painted in my home studio with domesticity and kitchenalia all around me my work and home life blend. |