Augusta Vinall Richardson: Wonder wall

It is with great pleasure that The Commercial presents Augusta Vinall Richardson: Wonder wall, the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Vinall Richardson has established herself as a leading sculptor of her generation. In her industrial metal studio in inner-city Melbourne, she works with sheet and cast metals to make abstract composite sculpture. Her hand is present in the drawing of templates that shape the volumes of her modular assemblages, speaking to but departing from the perfect geometries of minimalism and allowing for the expression of organic idiosyncrasy. These alt-ideals continue in her irregular jig-sawing of volumes, a subtle and enlivening disorder in the way they occupy space.

The exhibition comprises a group of new sculptures — free-standing and relief in bronze, stainless steel and cardboard, accompanied by a text by Naomi Riddle.