DX002-25, released 22/07/25
A special release featuring Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s recent exhibition, Homing Instincts.
Homing Instinct explores the universal pull towards home, drawing on personal and collective experiences of displacement and belonging. Inspired by the hermit crab's innate ability to navigate and adapt to new environments, this exhibition presents a new body of paintings that reflect on the continuous formation of home. In response to the growing need for safe and accessible housing, this exhibition invokes poetics and play to examine the intersections between environmental and social issues. By exploring the resilience of individuals and communities, this exhibition invites viewers to contemplate the complex, multifaceted nature of home and our innate desire to belong.
Homing Instincts was originally exhibited at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Double Bay, Gadigal land/Sydney, 7 May - 1 June 2025. Photography by Jessica Maurer.
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson is a visual artist, educator and curator based in southern lutruwita/ Tasmania. Working across painting, sculpture, collage and installation, her practice examines the value and significance of identity, place and belonging, and ways cultural significance is constructed and exchanged, but also sometimes lost. Informed by an ongoing fascination with the intersections between natural and built environments, and slippages between histories, fictions and popular culture, her work seeks the human desire for connection and to make visible what is out of sight.
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Photo: Ivett Dodd