Adversaria, 2022

String & wire installation, 250cm x 250cm

Exhibited at UNSW Galleries in 2022

Highly Commended in the Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, 2023

Highly Commended in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, 2023

Finalist in the M16 Drawing Prize, M16 Artspace, Griffith, Australian Capital Territory, 2023

adversaria: noun plural / singular or plural in construction

1: commentaries or notes (as in a text or document)

2: a miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections: commonplace book

Ruminating on the ambiguous space between a mark and its meaning, Adversaria engages with an expanded drawing practice as an intermediary between word and image. The relationship between line, language and legibility emerges through a process of deconstruction and repetition, and the presence of language as a beholder of knowledge is called to question.

As the primary work in the series, Lineweight consists of four-hundred and twenty-five string figures hung individually in a grid, reminiscent of text on a page. The work considers individual preconceptions and peripheral knowledge of language and systems, and how they dictate the legibility of abstract forms. In this sense, the presence of a system appears to infer meaning, irregardless of its inherent meaninglessness.