Amber Koroluk-Stephenson: Mother’s Tongue

Mother’s Tongue is a language of interconnections, uncanny absences and traces of Europe staged against a backdrop of settler-colonial anxiety. It is a personal language that speaks of maternal inheritance as an object of both anxiety and love, and a way of navigating the complex territories of the self. At times the exhibition reveals the strangeness that resides within the self, the ‘other’ hidden within ‘mother’, and the spaces that appear in the search for belonging. At other times its playful images seduce with familiar motifs and unexpected arrangements telling stories of legacy and survival.

– Excerpt from catalogue essay, ‘Looking for home in Mother’s Tongue: on memory, connection and belonging’, written by Eliza Burke, June 2026

Amber Koroluk-Stephenson, Mother’s Tongue, installation view, Bett Gallery.