Tia Ansell, Canto, 2023-24. Acrylic on cotton, recycled cotton and polyester weaving, aluminium frame, 33 x 22 x 6cm. Courtesy: the artist and Gallery 9, Sydney.

Coda is Tia Ansell‘s first solo show with Gallery 9. This exhibition includes weaving paintings that explore the language of abstraction, symbolism, material culture and architectural structures.

Ansell deconstructs fundamental elements of a painting by revealing the foundations of the woven substrate and its relationship with the painted image. The canvas is woven on a loom, playing with the structures reliance on the grid by interlacing interchanging threads of colour in the longitude and latitude, warp and weft. The weaving paintings are densely patterned and vibrant matrix of fabric with flat painted geometries that interrupt yet recede into the linear mesh. The painted image speaks to the patterns and symbols of the original landscape, yet blended with gridded patterns becoming a new abstracted image.

Coda is comprised of four significant settings drawn from her research trip in 2023 in Italy and followed by a two-month residency at Lottozero in the textile district of Prato, Tuscany where half the weavings were made. The muses being the marble work inside Capelle Medicee in Florence, modern Perilli tower in Milan, 5th century Mosaic works of Mausoleum of Galla Placidia Italy Ravenna and Castelvecchio in Verona.

Opening Event: Wednesday 3 July, 6 – 8pm.

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