Home Studio explores the blurred boundaries between domestic and working spaces, bringing together artists who produce work from, within, or for the home. The gallery is approached as a domestic interior, considering how artists work within home environments, where making, the objects we live with, and everyday life are symbiotically entwined.

Informed by the history of Objectspace Ōtautahi as the former home and office of architect Sir Miles Warren, Home Studio brings together works developed within the overlap of living and making, often shaped by the artists’ own environments. Judy McIntosh Wilson’s work is set against the Canterbury landscape, while Abigail Aroha Jensen’s muka handbags are worn and carried into everyday settings. Meanwhile, M.E. Mahoney House by Sophie Bannan documents the family home designed by her architect grandfather Maurice Mahoney that was irreparably damaged in the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes.

The works included in Home Studio – spanning ceramics to textiles to installation – have been tested, made, used and lived with, and carry the trace of this activity. Rather than treating the home as a backdrop, the exhibition positions the space as a collaborator in creative practice. It is shaped by the understanding that, for many artists, making is materially and conceptually tied to everyday life.

Home Studio sits within the lineage of previous Living Room and Pleasure Garden exhibitions by inviting artists to consider how we design and adorn domestic spaces – in this case, when that space is their own, both a home and a workshop, storage space, testing ground and more.

Home Studio is curated by Daegan Wells and features works by Wells, Wendelien Bakker, Sophie Bannan, Megan Brady, Scott Brough, Emma Fitts, Abigail Aroha Jensen, Greg Quinn, Yvonne Rust, Isaac Te Awa, Tyrone Te Waa and Judy McIntosh Wilson.