Homecoming is a mixed-media installation which contemplates the sentimental landscape aesthetics of English 'homeliness' and the Australian 'otherness'. The title 'Homecoming' questions what it is that crafts a sense of home, a sense of return in a place that is otherwise unfamiliar, and considers how the action of coming home, or homemaking, manifests.

The artwork draws on the concept of 'Acclimatisation Societies; community groups of European colonists developing from the 1860's, which aimed to introduce non-native species (both animals and plants) to (what they perceived as) unfamiliar environments, with the aim of transforming it into (what they perceived as) a more homely and hospitable place. The dining table, a ritualistic and central site in the home, is the setting for this installation, amplified further by the adaption of a colonial home built in the same time period that acclimatisation societies were at their zenith. In collaboration with Samantha Dennis a jewellery and object-based artist working in lutruwita (Tasmania). Fascinated by the ways society has sought to explain and order the phenomena of life, her work navigates themes from science and natural history.

Homecoming by tech/art collective Soma Lumia.

A collaboration with Samantha Dennis.

Funded by Arts Tasmania, Regional Arts Network Tasmania presented in collaboration with Narryna