Rekindle demonstrates Lavelle’s playful edge as an artist through her minimalist aesthetic, attention to detail, and love for colour, which she washes over or stains onto the canvas in thin, successive layers. Her washes create bleeds which, against the overtly rectangular compositions of her works, revel in the uninformed movement of colour.
“At the centre of Lavelle’s work lies a simple delight in the very substance of paint. Washes of colour are pulled across her works to create thin layers of pigment, which she gradually layers on top of one another. Each semi-translucent layer forms new formal relationships, blends, and associations with the next,” writes curator Zali Matthews. “Throughout this process, Lavelle openly acknowledges the space occupied by each layer and the innate bodily weight of paint.”
Exhibition Opening: Friday 23 April from 5 – 7 pm.
Guest speaker Melody Chen, the co-founder of architectural practice Atelier Chen Hung will open the show at 5:30.
Image: Bleed-Layered Painting (Dioxazine Purple/Blue), 2021, 137cm x 107cm, acrylic colour on Italian linen.
