The Aquilizan Studio Making it Home

Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan are creating one of their impressively scaled cardboard sculptures for the opening of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ expanded building in late 2022.

Living between the Philippines and Australia, the artists have drawn on their own story of migration to forge an art practice dedicated to understanding the shifting, varied and often complicated meanings of home. They are inspired by the power of collective action and create spaces where people can come together through a process of art-making.

In a project titled Making it Home, selected school and community groups have been invited to create their own cardboard ‘dream homes’, which may become part of the Aquilizans’ sculpture and its new speculative neighbourhood. Their constructions will be on display in the studio space on lower level 2.

There will also be opportunities between April and September 2022 for Art Gallery visitors to participate in workshops. Check our event listing for the latest details.