Object+ -ness
Rebecca Willcox
30
March 2017
30
March
2017
14
April 2017
An experiment in extending the artist’s painting practice into something between the realms of the flat surface and sculpture, Object+ -ness presents initial steps in a move towards the creation of “objects”, using painting as the starting point. Patterns and brushstrokes on a variety of supports are covered with a mix of opaque and semi-transparent fabrics. The underlying images are shrouded and then selectively revealed through slashes and burns in the veiling layers.
An experiment in extending the artist’s painting practice into something between the realms of the flat surface and sculpture, Object+ -ness presents initial steps in a move towards the creation of “objects”, using painting as the starting point. Patterns and brushstrokes on a variety of supports are covered with a mix of opaque and semi-transparent fabrics. The underlying images are shrouded and then selectively revealed through slashes and burns in the veiling layers.
Rebecca Willcox
Rebecca Willcox is a visual artist and graduate of the Master of Contemporary Art programme at the Victorian College of the Arts. She completed a Graduate Certificate of Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2017. Willcox resided in London from 2002-2016, where she was tutored in printmaking at The Royal Drawing School (2014) and the Working Men’s College (2013-2016), after graduating with a Master of Arts (Fashion Design & Technology) from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, in 2007.Willcox’s solo exhibitions include The wave says you’re as soft as a rock, Brunswick Temporary (2023), Lexical Items at Brunswick Temporary (2022), and Object+-ness, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne (2017). She was Artist in Residence at Police Point on the Mornington Peninsula in 2022. Her work featured in Luigi Vescio’s production NOW this body What at Temperance Hall, Melbourne, as part of Midsumma Festival 2020. Selected group exhibitions include Abstracted Landscapes at LON Gallery, Melbourne (2020); From Where I Stand 2 curated by Kim Donaldson at VCA Artspace, Melbourne (2019); Friends and Family, Daine Singer, Melbourne (2019); The Presence of Indelible Histories, curated by Kate Just at Assembly Point, The Guild, Melbourne (2018); Parameters/Frameworks at George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne (2017); Don’t Even Ask, A-Side B-Side Gallery, Hackney Downs Studios, London (2016); It’s All Relative, Bright Gallery, Bright, Victoria (2016); Migration, St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney, London (2015); and Under Ground Women, ArtsLav, Kennington, London (2014).Willcox curated two group exhibitions in London: Don’t Even Ask (2016) and Migration (2015). She is a co-founder of Brunswick Temporary and a former board member of GalleryGalleryInc, a not-for-profit artist run organisation and project space in Brunswick, Melbourne.