Anna Finlayson, Bent Stripe 1, 2024. Pencil and gouache on paper, 76 x 57cm. Courtesy: the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne.

Anna Finlayson‘s new suite of works on paper Working Drawings, Bent Stripes extends on previous drawings that also relied on repeating gridded motifs, coupled with accumulated numeric and textual annotations transcribed throughout the making process. The fine hand-ruled grids that underpin these drawings remain as a link to previous works and make reference to historical precedents, while functioning  as a compositional framework from which the drawings emerge. In the working drawings, grids begin to expand and morph, multiple layers of interlocking forms and structures overlap in a playful exploration of form and ground.

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