Open House is a body of work driven by Imogen Corbett's 2023 Honours research. Presenting a series of photo paintings - a painting based on a photo reference - these works explore how the interventions of staging and post production photo editing can imbue the photo painting with narrative possibility for the viewer. Inspired by tableau vivant and staged photography, the series combines uneasy character relationships, interconnected interior spaces and iconography to express moments of heightened narrative tension. These strategies undercut the realistic rendering to allude to an ambiguous, fictionalised space. This body of work is an invitation for viewers to look for multilayered meanings, to foster an experience of prolonged imaginative engagement.