Tracy Potts

Fliated

12 - 23 November 2025

Opening night

14 November | 6 - 8pm

G1

Artist Statement

Fliated

(Stories of contentment)

Fliated

Flea-ay-ted.

Verb

Definition: A typo sent within a text message from my friend Sara. Completely meaningless yet within context, completely understood.

Once upon a time very long time ago there came the realisation - and accompanied confusion - there was a very large hole in my chest.

The Hole of Something Missing.

It wasn’t a real hole of course but rather, a feeling.

For years I attempted many variations to fill The Hole of Something Missing, temporarily sealing it shut only for it to reopen with a vengeful shove.

Always restless, itchy, searching for a way to fill The Hole of Something Missing.

So The Hole of Something Missing became a part of me. As much as something missing can become a part of something.

Once upon a present time, The Hole of Something Missing surprisingly became No Hole of Anything Missing as The World had given me a precious gift - allowing me to stay home.

Just

stay

home

The World had given me the precious gift of time.

Swathes of uninterrupted solitary hours spent with thoughts and imaginations.

Time to daydream, to ponder, to loaf and invite my soul.

To create gardens, quiet botanical experiments of success and disappointment.

To bathe in the soothing forests.

Marvel at insects and their associates.

Birds, always birds.

To be curious, finding answers to questions I didn’t know to ask.

Rolling adventures through musical genres, some familiar, others newly discovered.

Demolishing sentences, words and letters into nonsensical structures for personal amusement.

To accept and appreciate the nuances of The World; at times very messy and yet beautiful.

Time paused for lengthy observation, absorbing my environment, intricately reproducing it in the weavings of my threads, catching together both new and familiar colour blends, creating abstract organic shapes. Gathered collections of light and colour, patterns and shapes that became more subtle as my work progressed. Guided by the intrinsic delight found in the varying textures and colours of threads and glimmering beads. Each piece becoming a bibelot nestled to the next bibelot, steadily building a larger conglomeration. With every focused pull of thread I wove and stitched, adding ingredients, concocting the recipe for that which I’d so often yearned to taste - contentment.

Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au

Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map

How to get here
Tram: Route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens

Melway Ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets

Bus: 504 (Reid Street)