Threefold: artistic approaches to flexing form
co-curated with Olivia Welch, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
cancelled due to program disruptions caused by COVID-19
EXHIBITION BRIEF: Threefold: artistic approaches to flexing form is an exhibition that aimed to reveal the engagement of this repetitive and structural act within the works of three Australian female artists who have varied practical approaches and differing sources of inspiration. To ‘fold’ is to crease or curve matter onto itself; lines are formed, layers are made and surfaces are disrupted. This process causes space to contract and alter, as well as the two-dimensional to gain volume. It allows angles and ridges to become an aspect of the object’s appearance and form. The act of folding has been utilised within the arts for centuries, as seen in the ripples and pleats of fashion items, the crisp edges of origami, and the angular, overlapping shapes within modernist architecture. Al Munro, Mylyn Nguyen, and Elizabeth Willing are three artists who not only incorporate folding processes into their respective practices, but collectively incorporate the implications, history, theory, and structural capabilities of this method of shaping.
ARTISTS: Al Munro, Mylyn Nguyen, Elizabeth Willing.