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.