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Ana Mendieta
art and cultural studies
Artemisia Gentileschi
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Brett Whiteley
Bridget Riley
Carol Jerrems
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colonialism
Cressida Campbell
Danie Mellor
Dayanita Singh
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forthcoming
Francesca Woodman
Goa
Homai K. Vyarawalla
housing crisis
immigrant
immigration
John Brack
Max Dupain
migration
personal narrative
Perth
spaces of home
stolen land
Tracey Emin
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- ISBN 9781761170614
- Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2026
- Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
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How do you inhabit spaces that were never built for you? Can you find home somewhere you were never supposed to belong?
As a child, Neha Kale migrated from India to the outer reaches of suburban Perth, an ancestral home, a colonial house in Goa, lingering in her memory. It sparked a life of relocation and movement around the world.
Mixing personal narrative with art and cultural criticism, Foreign Return explores the myth of the suburbs, colonial legacies, what it means to migrate to a stolen land, and changing ways we will need to conceive of homes and their ownership. In doing so she considers the works of artists who have helped her reimagine ideas of home, including Dayanita Singh, Artemisia Gentileschi, Tracey Emin, Cressida Campbell and Danie Mellor.
As a child, Neha Kale migrated from India to the outer reaches of suburban Perth, an ancestral home, a colonial house in Goa, lingering in her memory. It sparked a life of relocation and movement around the world.
Mixing personal narrative with art and cultural criticism, Foreign Return explores the myth of the suburbs, colonial legacies, what it means to migrate to a stolen land, and changing ways we will need to conceive of homes and their ownership. In doing so she considers the works of artists who have helped her reimagine ideas of home, including Dayanita Singh, Artemisia Gentileschi, Tracey Emin, Cressida Campbell and Danie Mellor.
Neha Kale is a widely acclaimed writer whose work spans criticism, journalism and essay. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, SBS, The Sydney Morning Herald, ArtReview, Vogue, the ABC, Griffith Review, among many others. She is the former editor of VAULT magazine and editor-at-large of Art Guide Australia. Kale has been recognised by a Faber Scholarship, was twice highly commended in the Ann Moyal Fellowship and was part of a team nominated for a Walkley Foundation Media Prize. She has been awarded residencies at Bundanon and Varuna and has presented her work widely, including at the Melbourne Writers' Festival and the Sydney Opera House.
