Material Remains

Curated by Mia Palmer-Verevis, Izzy Baker, and Frederick Wright 


Photos by
Linden New Art Projects Space | Jul 6 – Aug 6, 2023

Featuring work by Isabella Darcy, Martin Kantor, Rebecca Diele, Sarah crowEST, Shannon Slee, Casey Jeffery, and Madeleine Joy Dawes

Material Remains explores the socio-historical, archival and formal threads of fabric. It opens with Martin Kantor’s 1986 photograph of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop and ends with three works that look like fabric, but are in fact drawing, painting and stitched paper. In moving from local history to total abstraction, the slipperiness of fabric emerges: it is embedded in community; a carrier of identity and memory; and substrate that in art, eludes capture.  

Read the exhibition catalogue here

This exhibition took place on the Bunurong Boon Wurrung Country and acknowledges the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung as the traditional custodians of this land.