39 x 50cm

Archival pigment print on cotton rag

Framed in blackened oak with art glass

Edition 1 of 6

*Artworks sold individually

Coming Home is about the feeling of living in a perpetual state of uncertainty. After the death of my husband earlier in life I always knew the time to leave our family home would come, but I didn’t know when. 

For 35 years, home was The Moorings, an enchanted cottage overhanging the water near Chinaman’s Beach on Cammeraygal land. It’s a place where a sense of home, self and environment merge and feel a reflection of each other. The light and weather echoed my life: days of sublime beauty and joy and others of fear and sadness. The coast is a place of impermanence;  the sand, rocks and water ever shifting below me. It taught me that whatever is happening, will pass. 

The cottage is suspended at the intersection of land and sea, and I too was hovering between firm, familiar ground, and feeling “all at sea”. In this image, I explore the idea of a “liminal space”: a transition zone, between love and loss, the known and unknown, presence and impermanence. 

Photographer Jennifer Blau explores the emotional landscape, focusing on the liminal experience of life transitions that many of us share; between love and loss, the known and unknown, presence and impermanence. She seeks to capture these collective human experiences, and reflect on how they are mirrored in nature.

Jennifer’s photography has been widely exhibited and recognised in Australia and internationally with subjects spanning portraiture and environment. Awards include winner in the British Journal of Photography’s Female in Focus award (2022), finalist in Australia’s National Photographic Portrait Prize (2021), Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Award (2023 and 2024), Burwood Art Prize (2023) and Head On Photo Awards (2021, 2013). In 2024/2025, Jennifer exhibited Between Me and the Sea as Artist in Profile at Mosman Art Gallery. Her series Patricia’s Room was a featured exhibition at Head On Photo Festival in 2021.

Jennifer is author of The 50 Book: Women Celebrate Life about the experience of women in midlife. She has a Master of Documentary Photography from Sydney College of the Arts (2012) and Master of Art Therapy from Western Sydney University (2018). Jennifer lives on Cammeraygal land on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.