The Ideal Home exhibition and public programs seeks to explore Australian experiences of home across the past 100 years, encompassing domestic architecture, design, and technology, alongside contemporary social issues which threaten the fabric of our intimate lives: domestic violence, homelessness, housing affordability and the notion of Australia as refuge.

Penrith Regional Gallery with partner institution the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (MAAS) are examining various experiences of home and family life in a new exhibition titled The Ideal Home, on display from 1 December 2018 to 24 March 2019. The Ideal Home features 70 objects from the MAAS collection and a number of newly commissioned artworks exploring the Australian experience of home over the last century, encompassing themes of design and technology together with contemporary social issues such as domestic violence, homelessness, housing affordability and the notion of Australia as refuge.

The exhibition has taken over the entire Penrith Regional Gallery site, as well as extending to a satellite exhibition of modernist art and design at MAAS venue the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, with each space enabling a different consideration of exhibition ideas and themes.

Image: eX de Medici’s The Ominous Domestic, 2018