HOMESICK

Trauma-informed textile artist Olivia Mae Sinclair works with screen-printed linen, handwritten text, and soft sculpture to explore the relationships between home, memory, and belonging.

“Why do places hold memories? I’m interested in the things we keep, and the moments we ask them to hold. Domestic objects can remind us of people, routines, and versions of ourselves we can’t return to again. What does it mean to feel homesick for somewhere we no longer live, or for something that no longer exists? Why can home be a place, an object, or a person?

— Olivia Mae Sinclair

‘HOMESICK’ examines the emotional attachments we form with domestic spaces and the everyday objects that make them feel like home. Through soft sculptures of familiar household items, Sinclair transforms ordinary objects into containers for personal narrative, exploring how our surroundings shape identity, intimacy, and belonging.

Created for Loohoo’s studio-apartment-inspired shop and gallery, the exhibition spreads across a series of domestic spaces. Screen-printed linen sculptures are paired with textile books and wall works that consider the relationship between memory and material.

In a street-facing window installation, handwritten vinyl text and draped fabric evoke the intimacy of a domestic interior, bringing private reflections into public view.

Recurring themes include attachment, intimacy, and the longing for home. Sinclair’s practice considers how objects let us hold on to the past, and how the feeling of home can linger in places, people, and things long after we leave them behind.