MOST

During Marrickville Open Studio Trail and Art Month Sydney we will be sharing our
Continuous Drawing practices with the public  
www.artmonthsydney.com.au/experiences/tracing-materiality--continuous-drawing

MOST - Marrickville Open Studio Trail invites the public to explore Independent Arts in Marrickville. Fifty three studios, galleries and ARIs (artist-run initiatives) open their doors to the public on 5–6 March for the Marrickville Open Studio Trail (MOST 2016). As part of Art Month Sydney, this is your chance to dip into Marrickville's thriving independent arts scene, view artists at work, hear the stories behind their practice and join tours, workshops and more. 
www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/most

During MOST the artists in Tracing Materiality will be sharing their continuous drawing processes with the public. Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 March from 2pm

Gillian Lavery will be working on a performative wall drawing informed by textile practices of stitching and weaving. The works explore the space between a pencil line and a line of thread and the relationship between drawing and textiles in their approach to materiality and mark making. Gillian will be extending her year-long stitching/drawing project in her continuous spiral wall drawing project in the gallery on Saturday and Sunday afternoon from 2pm. This is complimented by animations created during her recent overseas residencies in Japan and Iceland. It encourages audience engagement and provides an opportunity to open up conversations about time, effort and value, as the drawing is erased at the end of the exhibition. 

Renuka Fernando will be making large-scale installations considering the drawing as acts of connection to the material world. Actively seeking the threat of the unexpected she makes work larger than her body, allowing accident and happenstance to play a leading role. Using the gallery as a studio space Renuka’s project will extend her previous continuous drawing projects by developing large scale installation drawings during the course of the exhibition. Visitors can observe and discuss her continuous drawing project with Renuka on Saturday and Sunday afternoon from 2pm. 

Kath Fries will explore tactile and sensory engagements with materiality, and how embodied processes can conjure attentiveness to present time. Working with beeswax and paper, using scratching translucencies, drips, changing natural light and the beeswax’s aromatic presence, she will respond to pre-existing aspects of the space including the natural light of the windows, old bolts in the ceiling and the lightboxes by the staircase. These installations will combine site sensitivity with the tactility and mutability of beeswax as a drawing material. Kath will be discussing her work with visitors to the gallery on Saturday and Sunday afternoon from 2pm. 

MOST Wrap Artists Party at Chrissie Cotter Gallery: 6-8pm Sunday 6th March

We are delighted to host the MOST Wrap Artists party at Tracing Materiality, Chrissie Cotter Gallery on the Sunday evening of MOST (Sunday 6th March 6-8pm) this is a great opportunity for MOST artists to network with each other and the general public is are also welcome to attend.