Publication Details Hardcover, 27 x 21 cm, 150 pages. ISBN: 978 0 6485534 6 5
Author and/or Editor name/s Tony Oates (curator, author, editor), Nicole Ellis (artist), Anna Johnson and Terence Maloon
Author and/or Editor bio/s Anthony (Tony) Oates Born 1976, Canberra, Australia. Lives and works in Canberra. Anthony Oates was educated at the Australian National University, and has been the Curator of Exhibitions at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery since 2004. He has curated numerous survey exhibitions during this time, including: Peter Maloney: Missing in Action (2018); Liz Coats: Active Seeing (2017); Brian Blanchflower Canopies (2016), David Serisier – Colour real and imagined (2015); Karl Wiebke Paintings 1994-2012 (2012) and Bert Flugelman Survey (2012). He has a reputation for curating energetic thematic exhibitions including Painting Amongst Other Things (2018); Repurpose (2016) and Colour Music (2014). Anthony Oates has published widely and made international contributions to journals and conferences.
Nicole Ellis uses found materials and colour, such as industrial textiles, printed papers, wrappers and urban refuse, to makes works which include painting, sculpture, installation, books and video.
Year of Publication 2021
Publisher Drill Hall Gallery Publishing, Canberra
Abstract Fabrications covers 30 years of the Sydney-based artist Nicole Ellis’ art-making. It surveys her rich and complex involvement with collage, assemblage and found materials. Fastidiously selected textiles comprise the “palettes” and provide tones and textures that she moulds into consistently beautiful, poised, luminous compositions.
The visually rich publication accompanying the exhibition provides a number of insights into the artist’s practice, and demonstrates a profound empathy for the work and the processes behind it.
Terence Maloon explores the ‘cast-off’, through processes of recycling, re-purposing and re-grafting, in order to resurrect and restore the flayed body of Painting; Anna Johnson analyses the artist’s work through the process and metaphor of the ‘cut and paste’, a salvage of the sublime; and lastly, the artist Nicole Ellis discusses moments of inspiration and exploration in conversation with the curator Tony Oates.
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