Baggage Handling: Humans arriving and departing with baggage.
By Lia Kemmis – Ladies Gallery
10am – 3pm every Friday 18 July – 5 September

Work from Gunning artist Lia Kemmis explores grief, utilising the metaphor of (emotional) baggage. Displayed within Connect@Gunning Station a space with poetic connections to passing through, passing on & passing away.

This exhibition contains the journey of four symbolic items of baggage: a school case, a backpack, a handbag, and a wheelie suitcase. Each represents a chapter of Lia’s own lived experience. 

“We are all born into circumstances that carry their own kind of baggage. And when we leave this world, we leave baggage behind — both emotional and material. Some of it ends up in op shops; some is quietly stored in the hearts of those we’ve touched.”

These paintings don’t reveal the contents of the baggage itself. Instead, they focus on the spaces these objects inhabit — environments that hint at their histories, and the paths ahead.

10.30am Saturday 26 July Opening event
Join us for the official opening morning tea with the artists

Works on display are for sale during gallery opening hours or by contacting [email protected].