Opening Launch: Wednesday 30 October 6-8pm | Exhibition Dates: October 30 - November 16, 2024
Lena Stumpf
‘Cookie Dough’ is a body of work that explores the interconnectedness of personal healing and the well-being of our environment. With a dreamy colour palette reminiscent of sweet treats, the artworks represent a journey of self-discovery towards inner peace.
Blending abstraction and figuration, the paintings are created through intricate layering techniques built on gestural brushwork. Inspired by the boundless movement of nature, biomorphic shapes emerge organically, guided by emotion and memory.
Lena Stumpf is a painter and interdisciplinary artist living in Melbourne on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people. Her works are held in private and corporate collections across Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Stumpf is a finalist in this year's National Emerging Art Prize.
Julia Schmitt
I visited Hong Kong in 2018 and completed a series of drawings in 2018-2019. These works depict places that no longer exist. Famously in 2022, the Floating Reastaurant on Aberdeen Harbour burnt down in a fire. The drawings capture the intricate urban environments that blend tradition with modernity. Hong Kong is a place of contrasts and these drawings capture the Taoist temples, wet and dry markets, hipster cafes, antique stores and high-end art galleries and boutiques
Claire Mooney
At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution.
Ruth Allen “Weathering”
Pattern Evolution explores transformation and change through the interplay between pattern and colour, fragmenting and interweaving geometric forms to create evolving configurations.
Using collage as a starting point, I create the conditions for new structures to emerge in the work. Through these processes of cutting, displacing, layering and concealing I can invite the principles of disorder and chance into my systems of creation, responding to interactions between the patterns and chasing the surprising beauty that can arise through the resolution of imperfect alignments.
Claire Mooney is an artist and art teacher who lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice explores the metaphorical possibilities of pattern and abstraction through the mediums of painting, drawing and textiles. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT in 1999, a Master of Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education at The University of Melbourne in 2010.
