Empty nest
As soon as a child is born, you start preparing them for the day they will leave.
Empty Nest will be a significant milestone solo visual art exhibition exploring the concept of Empty Nest syndrome through the intensity of nest building, home making, and reflecting on what, and who, is left behind.
Empty Nest will invite people to enter a human size nest. Entangled within the nest will be remnants of four generations of family nest building. It will ask people to consider what an empty nest means to them; the leaving, of being left behind and of what has been left behind in their family ‘nests’.
Participants will be invited to write a note, to their parents/carers, their children or their future selves and pin it to the nest. Over the duration of the exhibition the notes will build, creating glimpses of memories, experiences, and reflections of times of transition and of times past.
Presented by: Margaret Ambridge
Margaret Ambridge is an multidisciplinary artist living and working on Kaurna land. Margaret works with drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and video. She has been a finalist and winner of many national art prizes. Her works explore the liminal spaces of the human condition, its fears, loves and taboo’s, the difficult conversational and experiential places we avoid. Her tonal approach involves endless charcoal marks and subsequent erasure. The method is slow, the passage of time allowing her to examine her own responses to complex conversations, to question the boundaries we place on each other and our environments.Suitability & warnings
Accessibility
- High visual content
- Audience members have the opportunity to interact or join artist on stage
- Suitable for audiences who may not have a comprehensive understanding of the English language
Presenter
Presented by: Margaret Ambridge
Margaret Ambridge is an multidisciplinary artist living and working on Kaurna land. Margaret works with drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and video. She has been a finalist and winner of many national art prizes. Her works explore the liminal spaces of the human condition, its fears, loves and taboo’s, the difficult conversational and experiential places we avoid. Her tonal approach involves endless charcoal marks and subsequent erasure. The method is slow, the passage of time allowing her to examine her own responses to complex conversations, to question the boundaries we place on each other and our environments.Social media
