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Image: Kate Vassallo, "Symmetry", 2020, 80cm x 52 cm. Coloured pencil on paper.
The new series of drawings Logical Alterations by Kate Vassallo continues to follow an interest in process-orientated repetition. There is a tension between flatness and depth within the artworks, constructed with thousands of ruled lines. Though visually these drawings hint towards science or mathematics, the process that generates them is actually quite instinctual and chance orientated. This exhibition invites viewers to slow down and unravel the drawings in their mind. Kate Vassallo lives and works across Sydney and Canberra, currently occupying a studio space at Wellington St Projects. Her artworks consider how process driven practice can fluidly be explored, using diverse mediums like drawing, performance, video and installation. After receiving a University Medal upon graduating from Australian National University School of Art in 2014, Vassallo was selected for Hatched at PICA (Perth). From there, she has had numerous solo exhibitions and performances, including showing at Firstdraft (Sydney), Kings ARI (Melbourne) and Canberra Contemporary Art Space. She has been curated into festival programs, like Critical Animals at TiNA (Newcastle), You Are Here (Canberra), Art Not Apart (Canberra) and Free Fall at Oxford Art Factory (Sydney). Vassallo also has a collaborative practice with James Lieutenant. The pair has exhibited at Artbank, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Bus Projects (Melbourne) and Archive Space (Sydney), as well as working on private commissions.
 image: "Five Choices Of Death" Acrylic on MDF, Timber,
Ron Adams, Kate Beckingham, Kieran Butler, Lucas Davidson, Daniel Hollier, Richard Kean and Carla Liesch. Co-ordinated by George Adams MODES OF PRACTICE brings together past and present MOP Projects committee members Ron Adams, Kate Beckingham, Keiran Butler, Lucas Davidson, Daniel Hollier, Richard Kean and Carla Liesch in this allied location and timely exhibition. Our mode of practice is our way of thinking about making, a philosophy that is nurtured through the experimental nature of our artist-run-spaces. In collectively discussing this exhibition, the artists have all conceptualised a work borne of their most significant moments working with MOP Projects, as they celebrate the end of an important 14-year Sydney institution. This is encapsulated by the work of co-director Ron Adams. Adams’ large text installation will declare: ‘I am the son and heir of nothing in particular,’ referencing The Smiths’ 1984 song How Soon is Now? In this work Adams’ revisits MOP Projects’ Our Lucky Country series held in partnership with Hazelhurst Regional Gallery in 2005-2011. In 2011 Naomi Evans wrote of the work's “observation that we are of a time where the past no longer promises a grand inheritance.” 1 These words haunt the uncertain territory of the arts in Australia today. But they also speak to opportunity, “the fact that not one thing defines us, that we are a composite of parts, not one leading above the others.” 2 This exhibition comes from community, a composite of many parts, a collection of many voices and modes of practice that continue to drive artistic creation and education in Australia. 1 Naomi Evans, ‘Five Choices of Death’, Our Lucky Country (still different), curated by George + Ron Adamss, Edited by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Mop Projects + Hazlehurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, 2011, p34-37.
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Image: Doris Bush, work in progress documentation image, August 2020. Image by Siân McIntyre.
D_O_T Doris Bush, Martha MacDonald, Isobel Major, Candy Nelson, Maureen Poulson, Beyula Puntungka. Presented by Verge Gallery in collaboration with Papunya Tjupi Arts and Best Electric Guitar from FretterVerse.com Dotted surfaces showing u-shapes and circular patterns in earthy ochre and red tones are immediately recognisable as Western Desert dot paintings. D_O_T explores what lies beside, beneath and around these dots. This exploration endeavours to question contemporary perceptions of Western Desert art, challenging the expectations and conditions of creative practice and the nature of value and representation of contemporary Australian art from Central Australia. D_O_T presents the work of six artists from Papunya, home of the Western Desert Art Movement. The intricate line work and patterning illustrate detailed stories that are significant and particular to each individual artist. These drawings will be lifted off the page and translated into installation, saturating the pompom space with dynamic lines and stories from the Central Desert. A Mop project hosted in Galerie pompom presented by Verge Gallery, D_O_T exhibits a contemporary installation of works made by current artists illustrating their world view, lived experience and knowledge in an inner city Artist Run gallery.
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