LON Gallery is thrilled to be returning to Melbourne Art Fair this year with a solo presentation of new works by Tia Ansell.

The exhibition comprises a suite of 18 artworks conceived by the artist during her residency at the Lottozero Textile Laboratory in Prato, Italy. During her stay Ansell developed new weaving techniques and patterns that respond to the ancient buildings and modern architectural masterpieces that she encountered during her time in Europe. These works are complimented by a selection of ‘weaving-paintings’ created in Melbourne.

Deconstructing the fundamental elements of a painting, Tia Ansell’s practice calls attention to the origin of the woven substrate and its context within contemporary art. Ansell utilises the loom to explore intricate weaving patterns generated using her idiosyncratic coding system where each thread is assigned a number based on an architectural field drawing. Narratives of observational patterns that exist within the metropolitan milieu are woven as the structure of these compositions. These are eventually built upon with a layer of acrylic paint. Horizontal and vertical viewpoints inform the compositional decisions during the construction process, where the extrapolated patterns and design elements become the final embellishment. The ‘weaving-paintings’ form an aesthetic whole, a composition of form, colour and substance.