Over the week of Valentine’s Day, 8-14 February, Vessels of Love 2025: love in transmission responds to the adage ‘home is where the heart is’ through the works of seven artists: Natalia Treviño, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Neha Kale, Josh Stenberg, Clarita Derwent, Teena McCarthy and Djon Mundine.

Playing in the folds of poetry, film, music and art, VOL 2025 maps the complex emotional geography of transnational identity across its shifting modes. Through cross-cultural connections and movements between love and home, our curation charts the lived experiences of our artists, and the ways in which they navigate the worlds through which they move. Within this, the program celebrates the integral role of the artist as keeper, conduit and communicator of cultural and familial memory.