Vanessa Wallace

Further investigates the driving concerns within Vanessa Wallace's art practice, that of the use of the ground space combined with text to analyse the intersection of public and private space. Private and public space in this context relating to both the material and virtual worlds and the increasingly blurred lines between both public / private and material / virtual. Integral to the work is the use of materials and processes that are labour intensive to slow down and give weight to spaces often overlooked.

This exhibition was held at The Lobby in Swanbourne, Western Australia in October 2018

Held at Spectrum Project Space May 19 - June 3, 2016

All photographs of work taken by Danielle Fusco, Karin Wallace and John Wallace

Look left and right … then left again, brings together a series of prints (Bunny Tree series) and artists books (back in the moment) that have developed out of ongoing walks started in 2021. These were taken in parallel to a daily making practice that employs ground imagery in an attempt to record small unrepeatable moments.

The Bunny Tree series focuses on the act of travelling to and from school, on each walk, there and back, one close up image of the ground was taken. These works are in part a collaboration with my daughter. Her participation comes through the naming of the series of work and participating in the walks. We have acknowledged the importance for her to remain anonymous while retaining her own sense of agency.

Employing different print processes both the prints and artist’s books layer deliberately obscured barely visible text. The Bunny Tree series text knits together every photograph’s time stamp with the boundary areas of schools while back in the moment has a somewhat more momentary nature.

Digital, analogue and autographic processes intended to remove and selectively readd information to the initial images are intended to offer a comment on the way memory changes every time it is re-remembered.

A collaborative exhibition between Shanti Gelmi, Louise Grimshaw and Vanessa Wallace held at the Print Council of Australia

Shanti Gelmi, Louise Grimshaw and Vanessa Wallace draw on their shared interest in personal histories, gendered experiences and cultural life-worlds, creating artist’s books with illegible text.

Drawing on a shared interest in personal histories, gendered experiences, and cultural life-worlds, Vanessa Wallace, Louise Grimshaw and Shanti Gelmi extend artworks commissioned for the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial 2024 exhibition, ‘Unfold’, curated by K. Scaddan at Midland Junction Arts Centre. The artists use their unique experiences as descendants of migrants to the Indian Ocean Region, specifically Western Australia, to create non-traditional Artist’s Books. The artists collaborate from the shared workspaces at Holmes Studio, Boorloo (Perth) to extend these works for the Print Council of Australia, challenging themselves to reconsider the format of Artist’s Books and their connection to each other in their new studio.

Exhibition ran from 18th March - 4th April, 10am - 4pm, Tuesday - Friday, 2025.

This project is kindly supported by @deptlgsc