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april 11 - 29

new works

by Linda Pickering

Linda Pickering’s new paintings are an exploration of executed decisions. As a line is followed and a form constructed there is an infinite number of choices that need to be made.

Pickering explores the aesthetic variations possible in the context of abstract painting. Using the basic elements of line, shape and colour, each painting develops in a random, yet orderly way.

Her reference points are biology and the landscape.  Pickering is interested in the random, yet orderly patterns that emerge from the biological world viewed through a microscope  (Pickering was once a scientist).  Patterns within landscape are another phenomenon which Pickering explores.

Combining her interest in both areas provides the foundation of  Pickerings work. The process starts with simple line drawings and progresses to the building of shapes and forms.  The addition of colour adds to the number of decisions required and the endless number of potential outcomes. The result is a collection of playful paintings embracing the aesthetically sublime.

Linda Pickering studied at RMIT and now lives and works in Melbourne.  

traces 

by Annie Green

The hand written word has become disembodied by cyberspace. The scribbled personalised font of hand written text is in danger of becoming a nostalgic relic from a romantic period.  Annie Green dusts off long forgotten scripts and anthropologically explores their author.

From old notebooks, diaries and correspondence, words and letters have been found as discarded treasures.  It’s hard rubbish for today’s graphologist. Green has retraced these, hand written, found objects and now in Traces, they exist in their own right.

Intimate pages from handwritten recipe books of the 40’s and 50’s are enlarged and rearranged as multi panelled abstractions.  50 letter E’s have been selected from an autograph book from 1911 and now waft delicately across a canvas.  Through the structure and dynamics of these marks, traces of the previous authors emerge.

Annie Green studied at the Victorian College of the Arts. This is her first solo exhibition.

Minute Possibilities

by Claire Mooney and Sophy Reynolds

Minute Possibilities presents the work of two artists, each teasing out their own idiosyncratic connotations from formal geometric structures. Contemplating the significance of pattern and repetition in the context of the natural and the cultural, this exhibition explores ways in which abstraction can expand, and formalism can be extended.

Claire Mooney creates paintings and works on paper that explore abstraction as a process of encoding and encryption. Beginning with sections of text, she employs a variety of rules to translate and conceal information in coloured patterns that are mapped onto the surface of the canvas. 

The finished work presents a message that is muffled, but not entirely voiceless, throwing out tiny clues in fragments of words that peep past the multi-coloured, secret-concealing ‘walls’ of code.

Using found objects and elements from the natural world, Sophy Reynolds creates delicate collages, drawings and paintings that explore the smallest moments of interference, dissolution and fragmentation. Operating from an intuitive centre inspired by Japanese and minimalist aesthetics, the meditative methods of her work explore pattern through its associations with the natural world, her process is reflective of a humanisation of geometry.