We are sailing from the Known to the Unknown' represents the feelings of unfamiliarity and uncertainty that many migrants and refugees felt on moving to Australia, a mysterious country at the end of the world.
Gina Sinozich's painting shows the liner SS NEPTUNIA sailing across a stylised map from Croatia to Australia, representing the voyage of the artist and her family in 1957. The map of Croatia includes villages and a church while Australia is shown with Uluru, a kangaroo and Aboriginal people. For many displaced persons fleeing Europe after World War II iconic representations such as these were all they knew of their future home.