Home and Away Workshops Announce New Migration-Focused Gallery Exhibition

Liverpool art collective Home and Away Workshops are delighted to announce a new exhibition of work at St George’s Hall, Liverpool—the exhibition launches on 6th May 2026 between 5 - 7pm (launch event free entry with an RSVP ticket), and runs until 31st May 2026.

Home and Away is an exhibition that brings together a collective of artists whose lives have been shaped by experiences of displacement, migration, and transition. The work exhibited has been developed through a series of cocreation workshops supported by Arts Council England and hosted both at St George’s Hall and online.

The exhibition features a diverse array of mixed-media work from a variety of artists from the Philippines, Argentina, Ireland, Poland, Venezuela, Barcelona and more, including Karema Munassar, Dina Roncevic, Annabel Petit Alvarado, Sandra Mutukwa, Bilqis Shakil, Mai Sanchez, Mariana Sequera, Ariana Basciani, and Elizabeth Longwill.

Over the past months, the group’s workshops have created a space for conversation, reflection, and making. Participants came together to share personal stories, memories, and questions around the idea of home—what it means, how it feels, and how it can shift across time and place.

The group worked with a range of media and approaches, supporting one another to explore materials, ideas, and methods that reflected their individual and collective experiences. The structure of the workshops encouraged collective learning and exchange. Participants were not only makers but also facilitators, devising and leading sessions for one another.

The exhibition presents works that offer multiple interpretations of home—not as a fixed location, but as something embodied, remembered, imagined, and continually re-made. The works connect the concept of home to the body, to the environment, and to the places left behind.

Home and Away invites visitors to reflect on their own understandings of home and displacement, and to consider how personal histories intersect with wider social and political narratives. The work is presented within St George’s Hall, an institution deeply embedded in the city’s history, so the exhibition creates a dialogue between past and present, personal stories and public space.

Home and Away is generously supported by Arts Council England and St George’s Hall.