Kate Vassallo, Colour Wheel 4, 2020. Image courtesy of the artist.
Matthew Allen, Kirsten Biven, Boni Cairncross, Sanne Carroll, Emma Fielden, Rubaba Haider, Annelies Jahn, James Lieutenant, Britt Salt, Kate Vassallo, Constanze Vogt, Nina Walton & Belinda Yee.
Gallery 1 & 2
Friday 29 September - Sunday 22 October 2023
Opening Thursday 28 September 2023, 6pm - 8pm
Drawing can be a deeply personal process. Due to its immediacy, it is often chosen as the perfect medium to illustrate the internal workings of an artistโs mind. Whether attempting to visualise emotions or considered thought processes, or perhaps something else completely intangible, both making and viewing drawing is an intimate experience. In contemporary art practice and the field of expanded drawing, process-based abstraction is often chosen over traditional representational modes, as a way of focusing on this mapping of the intangible.
Care Structures brings together local, national and international artists working with expanded drawing practice. By incorporating repetition and slowly following making-systems or rules, the artists in this exhibition are finding ways to visualise process. Their art-making is carried out with care, with the process often taking on more importance than the final objects. Many of these artists are constructing methodologies that highlight intuitive and non-cerebral ways of working. For some, their art practice is a way to externalise their personal, internal world. Others, focus on building minimal and pristine finishes, almost concealing the labour behind the artworks. Consistent across all the artists, through care and time, a direct link is formed between the maker and their material outcome.
In bringing these artists together, viewers are invited to slow down and consider the time-consuming processes behind these objects. These contemporary artworks are quiet and subtle, intending to form a contemplative space and using abstraction to prompt consideration of time, thought, labour and the human condition.
Matthew Allen is represented by Fox Jensen Gallery
Emma Fielden is represented by Dominik Mersch Gallery
Rubaba Haider is represented by Niagara Galleries
James Lieutenant is represented by Jennings Kerr
Kate Vassallo is represented by Artereal Gallery
Constanze Vogt is represented by Mianki Gallery
