Show Me Why You Love Home Exhibition Launch, Rhodes House

You are warmly invited to join us in the S. Ann Colbourne gallery in Rhodes House for the opening of our latest exhibition, Show Me Why You Love Home, featuring artworks by Rhodes Scholars, Atlantic Fellows and Schmidt Science Fellows.

Contributors to the Show Me Why You Love Home exhibition are working with a wide range of media and representing many different interpretations of what 'home' is, how it can be found, and the ways to celebrate it. In the West Lightwell we will also be showcasing a collaboration with the XR Lab, part of the Atlantic Institute, based here at Rhodes House.

The provisional list of artists includes:

• Lana Alabbasi, Rhodes Scholar in Residence
• Carrying a Starry Home, a mixed-media piece reimagining Van Gogh's The Starry Night through Saudi heritage and memory
• Laura Maria Calderon, Atlantic Fellow
• Ethiopian face painting, photography
• Talei Caucau, Atlantic Fellow
• Traditional woven mat from Batiki, called vakadivilivili
• Madeline Dierauf, Rhodes Scholar in Residence
• Audio recordings and photography of folk music from Southern Appalachia, USA
• John Edwards, Rhodes Scholar Alum
• Botanical illustrations and poetry
• Humairaa Moosa, Rhodes Scholar in Residence
• Photography and poetry
• Azania Patel, Rhodes Scholar Alum
• Indian craft traditions
• Nadine Pinede, Rhodes Scholar Alum
• NOU LA: A Knot in Time - poetic archive and artist's book installation exploring Ayiti through memory, diaspora, and home
• Mansi Sood, Schmidt Science Fellow
• Watercolour quilt collage on cotton paper
• Chloe Walker, Rhodes Scholar Alum & Rhodes Trust Staff
• Barbadian chattel house, photo/wooden
• Laura Wegner, Rhodes Scholar in Residence
• Home as people, backlit photography
• Anonymous, Rhodes Scholar in Residence
• Tatreez, a traditional form of Palestinian embroidery

Doors open at 18:00, with introductory remarks from the Rhodes Trust team at 18:30. Drinks and canapés will be served.

Please be aware that photography will be taking place throughout the event for promotional and archival purposes. Please speak to the photographer on the day if you do not wish to be photographed.