LON is thrilled to present Tia Ansell’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, Victoria, opening 6-8pm, May 25. The exhibition remains on view until June 18.

Victoria comprises thirteen ambitious new works which continue the artist’s fascination with urban geography, in particular, the logic of the grid. Her compositions are informed by architectural facades, aerial perspectives and advertisement designs found within metropolitan Melbourne. Ansell has expanded her technical vocabulary for this exhibition, introducing a new horizontal weaving process to her practice, which is used to challenge the traditional conventions of the loom. These textiles are patched together with continuous vertical lines, an unusual yet practical technique which comes from an admiration of adhoc logic often employed within design and architecture. Through this process, Ansell distils a logic where new and old ideas become unified through the weaving plane.


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 an acrylic paint applique. 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.