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.