‘Materiality’ focuses on the moments when materials play the lead in artistic processes, entangling us in a web of connections and meanings and expanding on the notions of process, time and place. Features artists include; John Brooks, Anna Farago, Nicholas Jones, Georgia MacGuire, Emma Peters and Vittoria Di Stefano.
Nicholas Jones. Photograph: Christian Capurro
Jones works with books and paper to question the future of the written word, cutting and sculpting pages with a scalpel whilst Anna Farago explores her own connection with memory and place through her practice, which investigates the use of artmaking traditions including embroidery, quilting and natural dyeing.
Vittoria Di Stefano employs temporal, marginal and contingent processes to investigate a range of mutable materials as a means to explore the alchemical and transformational properties of the sculptural object. John Brooks’ work looks at forms created by rubbish and detritus along the Merri Creek and questions the boundary between natural and artificial by merging various materials, particularly ‘real’ and ‘fake’ versions of the same thing.
Town Hall Gallery
Until 2 July, 2017
Melbourne
