"Art must regain its universal function for all and not be just a fashionable business for insiders." - Hundertwasser, 1990
Inspired by the philosophy and paintings of the Viennese artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, What is Home was intended to demonstrate that a carefully designed community art project can involve absolutely everyone, regardless of age or disability.
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The groups involved were:
- Bellerive Community Arts centre
- Clarendon Vale Community House
- Dunalley Neighbourhood House
- Eastside Care
- Geilston Bay High School
- Limited Edition
- Monday Girls
- North Lindisfarne Primary School
- Queen Victoria Home
- Risdon Vale Neighbourhood House
- Rosny Community Craft Classes
- Rosny Library Story Telling Group
- Senior Momentum
- Star Group Homes
- Women Tasmania (staff)
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"Home" is a universal concern. The smallest child can draw a picture of "our house", and the youngest participant in What is Home? was two years old; the oldest in her nineties.
Five panels were designed and stitched by members of fifteen community groups - schools, community centres, nursing homes and group homes for people with intellectual disability.
The resulting textiles were exhibited at State Libraries, schools, aged care, community and health centres, where visitors were invited to lift the individual pictures and read what the idea of "home" meant to the people who designed and stitched each piece.
 group at Dunalley Neighbourhood House working on "What is home?" |
 2003: Seniors Week at the Schoolhouse Gallery |
 The textiles on show at Eastside Care (Lillian Martin Home)
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 What is Home? at the Schoolhouse GalleryMembers of Senior Momentum with the finished textiles |
some of the individual images of "home"
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