Hema Shironi's practice explores her community’s historical and lived experience of colonisation and civil war. As a child, her family would often move from one place to another leading to the artist's hesitation to embrace communal and individual bonds as she contended with her lack of belonging. Shironi combines embroidery, mythological imagery, bricolage, and installation, in a keen inquiry into her relationship with cultural identity. Hema Shironi’s artistry is driven by the nostalgia of the numerous places she has called home and how each community belonging to those places grapples with concerns of language, culture, memory, myth, gender, and equality.