Reduction Group Exhibition

6 - 17 August 2025

Opening Night

Friday 8 August

6 - 8 pm

G2

Curator Statement: Tammy Honey

Reduction is a group exhibition featuring ten artists whose work aligns with minimalism, hard-edge abstraction, colourfield, and geometric abstraction. The exhibition explores the tension between simplicity and complexity, where form, colour, and structure are reduced to their most essential elements.

Kate Hendry’s work plays with commonly used symbols, abstracting them through lines, shapes, and repetition to invite contemplation. Simon Rankin’s screen-printed works explore grids as both a foundation and a site of creative disruption, shifting between order and chaos. Steven Carson’s dynamic compositions, built from vinyl layers, balance precision and spontaneity, drawing on his personal archive of photographs.

Falconeris Marimón investigates semiotics through found objects, creating performative installations that challenge the viewer’s perception of order and chaos. Kristen Solury’s work reflects on mid-century visions of the future, contrasting optimistic expectations with contemporary realities. Yiming Wang’s ceramic sculptures embody the relationship between logical thought and intuitive creation, capturing traces of gesture and movement.

Dore Stockhausen’s hard-edged abstraction reflects her response to the ethereal beauty of landscapes and human interference. Debra Achurch’s printmaking explores the impacts of urban development, reducing suburban landscapes to their basic geometric forms. Sandra McMahon’s work emphasizes restraint, using minimal materials to create a visual dialogue of clarity and order. Stephen Glover’s abstract works, symbolic and expressive, respond to the intersection of gesture and geometry.

Together, these artists embrace reduction as a powerful tool to engage with the world. Through their diverse approaches, Reduction invites viewers to explore how abstraction can evoke both sensory experiences and reflections.

Kate Hendry

Artist Statement

The artworks in this exhibition were developed from my interest in commonly used symbols: punctuation, corrections and editing shorthand, musical symbols and wayfinding signage. I played with these symbols, abstracting elements by accentuating directional lines, shapes, repetition and spacing to create works that I hope will invite the viewer to pause and take a moment.

Artist Biography

Kate Hendry has been making artwork that sits at the intersection between drawing and sculpture for the past 25 years. She has exhibited regularly over this period and her work is held in private and public collections in Australia and overseas. Hendry often works in series creating works informed by motifs from architecture, the landscape and music.

Simon Rankin

Artist Statement

These new screen-printed works explore the grid as both a structural foundation and a site of creative disruption. Using bright, collaged fragments on black paper, Simon is interested in how the grid—something we encounter daily in everything from city planning to digital interfaces—can shift between feeling organised and chaotic, comforting and constraining. By breaking down and reassembling these familiar ordering systems, the work reveals the tension between control and freedom that exists within the structures that shape our visual world.

Artist Biography

Simon Rankin (he/him) lives and works on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country (Coburg). Subjects and motifs in Simon’s practice commonly revolve around diagrammatic visual elements. Simon often employs elements of graphic design including typography, symbols and grid structures. Informational graphics such as maps, graphs, flow charts are also incorporated into compositions. 

A common thread or theme is reuse and recycling. Works often contain motifs of discarded material, disused graphic elements or re digested visuals. His picture making practice incorporates improvisational processes confined within predefined constraints. Works are often produced in series or groups addressing imposed formal and design relationships. He creates art in both digital and traditional mediums, including motion graphics, painting and screen printing. 

Steven Carson

Artist Statement

Steven Carson’s practice centres on a deep engagement with colour and pattern, particularly the emotive potential of vibrant colour to evoke sensory experiences and conjure specific places, moments, and memories. Drawing from a personal archive of photographs that document his surroundings, Carson isolates colours, shapes, and graphic marks, transforming them into motifs that form the foundation of his compositions.

His paintings explore the tension between precision and spontaneity. Through the layering of hand-cut and machine-cut adhesive vinyl, Carson constructs dynamic surfaces that reference hard-edge abstraction while embracing the immediacy and tactility of collage. The result is a body of work that balances structure with improvisation, offering a contemporary take on formalist aesthetics grounded in lived experience.

Artist Biography

Steven Carson has exhibited sculpture, paintings and ceramics since 1987. He holds a PhD from the University of Tasmania (2016), and a Master of Visual Arts from Queensland College of Art (1997). Carson currently lectures in Art at the University of Tasmania. Major prizes awarded include the Whyalla Art Prize (2007); the Helpmann Academy Artist in Residence, Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India (2005); and the Moorilla Prize, City of Hobart Art Prize (1999).

In 2019 Carson completed a Studio Residency at the Rosamond McCullough Studio, Cite International des Arts, Paris, as a recipient of Marie Edwards Travelling Scholarship. This culminated in solo exhibitions ‘Vis-à-vis’ (2020) at Rosny Barn, Tasmania, and ‘Unrest’ (2021) at Moonah Arts Centre, Tasmania.

Other recent solo exhibitions include ‘Some Wear’ (2023), Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane and ‘Maybe it’s there (2024), Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny, Tasmania. His work is held in public collections including Artbank, Royal Hobart Hospital, Queensland Children’s Hospital, State Library of Queensland, University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich and Toowoomba Regional Art Galleries, and the City of Clarence. 

Falconeris Marimón

Artist Statement

Found objects such as road signs, tourist maps, bricks, and leaves appear in his practice while examining semiotics and the duality between strict order and chaos within the grid scape. The artist’s Performative Installations are one of his signature genres, which are sculptures or objects activated by performance.

Falconeris’s work reflects his deep curiosity about the world, and he often draws inspiration from his local surroundings, his cultural heritage/ traditions, and the spectrum between these. Through his focus on curiosity and charisma, he creates art that challenges and inspires the viewer to reconsider their positionality as individuals in the city game.

Artist Biography

Falconeris Marimon is a Mexican/ Colombian Queer conceptual artist based in Melbourne/Naarm, currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) at RMIT. His work spans various media, including installation, performance, and sculpture. Falconeris's art is characterized by his use of the urban landscape as a medium of creation, where ideas and concepts expand.

Kristen Solury

Artist Statement

This collection harks back to the vivid, optimistic mid-century view of the future, particularly the year 2000, which envisioned a world where science and technology created a utopian living standard for all - in contrast to what we really got.

Artist Biography

(b. 1974, Washington, D.C.) is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice explores memory, emotional nuance, and psychological terrain through a blend of abstraction and narrative. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Pratt Institute, New York (1999), and brings an intuitive, layered approach to painting that reflects transitional states and inner worlds.

She has exhibited in solo shows at Tacit Galleries, including After the Pain, Before the Hurt (2019) and Space Cadet (2018), and in numerous group exhibitions such as Red Salon at Red Gallery (2025), the Linden Postcard Show (2019–2023), and A1 Darebin Art Salon at Bundoora Homestead (2018, 2020). Her work invites quiet reflection, often revealing the tension between vulnerability and strength.

Yiming Wang

Artist Statement

Yiming Wang’s artistic practice centres on ceramic sculpture, embodying the complementary relationship between logical thought and intuitive making. His works record the traces of gesture and movement, reflecting a dynamic and ongoing dialogue between the artist and the clay. 

Artist Biography

Yiming Wang is a ceramic sculpture artist whose work explores the dynamic balance between control and spontaneity, intellect and instinct. Their sculptures capture the fluidity of form and the traces of gestural movement, highlighting the interplay between deliberate action and natural emergence. By shaping clay entirely by hand, Yiming’s practice emphasizes a tactile connection between the artist and the material, creating works that embody the harmony between human creativity and the inherent qualities of clay.

Dore Stockhausen

Artist Statement

In an abstract, harde-dged style Stockhausen shares her personal response to the ethereal beauty of landscapes, yet reminds us of our human interference; not as a judgmental comment,  but as the picture in full.

Artist Biography

As a child Stockhausen grew up with her mother's goldsmithing bench and enamel kiln in the kitchen and lots of paintings on the walls. This encouraged her to go to a high school for art and design and after graduating she knew she wanted to become either a painter or goldsmith. At this stage in her life goldsmithing won, though now 35 years later she prefers the brushes to the hammers and for the last eight years has been painting full-time.

During her long jewellery career enameling was her favorite technique, because it allowed her to introduce colour to her pieces and paint on a small scale. The techniques she used then are not dissimilar to her current acrylic painting practice in which she combs, pushes, and scrapes the paint over the canvas and when dry sandpapers it back to a smooth surface. Parts of this 'understory ' will re-emerge later in the process as revealed fragments. Layers and layers of washes are then painted over the underlaying painting. This process continues with working back through the layers and painting further washes.

Debra Achurch

Artist Statement

Debra Achurch’s recent printmaking work depicts suburban landscapes in an abstract way as she investigates the impacts of ongoing urban development. Built forms are reduced to their basic geometric shapes and themes of memory, loss and disruption are explored. The layering of shapes, lines and colour reflects the continual changes to our city environments. 

Artist Biography

Debra Achurch lives and works on Wallumedegal Country in Sydney. She completed a B. Fine Art at the National Art School in 2024 majoring in printmaking. She also holds a M. Art Education (COFA, UNSW). 

Debra is a multidisciplinary artist and her practice spans printmaking, painting, mixed media and textiles. She exhibits regularly in group shows in Sydney and in regional and interstate locations and has been a finalist in numerous art prizes. In 2025 Debra was a finalist in the Wingecarribee Landscape Prize and the Northern Beaches Artists’ Book Award, where her work was acquired by the State Library of NSW. At “artXtra” at Lane Cove Gallery her etching received highly commended in 2025. She won the Mixed Media Prize at "artXtra" in 2024. In 2024 Debra was a finalist in the Greenway Art Prize, the 9 x 5 Landscape Art Prize and the Ewart Art Prize at Willoughby Art Centre. Her printmaking has been exhibited in several shows at the National Art School, Sydney. Debra’s work is held in private collections, the State Library of NSW and City of Sydney Collection.

Sandra McMahon

Artist Statement

McMahon is interested in the subtle beauty that emerges from the interaction between materials, form, and space.  Removing an object or subject from the work allows the fundamental elements of design to be the primary reason for creating.  The work then becomes a mind game of problem solving. McMahon adopts the less is more approach, by applying restraint and maintaining  clarity and order, she eliminates what doesn’t matter to leave room for what does.

Artist Biography

Sandra McMahon lives and works in Regional NSW.  Sandra has been working in the Visual Arts for over 35 years. Staring out her career as a Visual Arts teacher/ lecturer at NSW TAFE for 8 years before moving into the gallery sector where she has worked across a range of positions at 3 Regional Galleries and 3 Commercial Galleries in NSW and ACT. Sandra holds a Diploma of Visual Arts (TAFE), a Graduate Diploma in Art History and Curating (ANU), and a Diploma of Management (UNEP). She also holds a Cert IV in Training Assessment and Education (TCC) and is a registered Art Valuer under the Australian Governments Cultural Gifts Program.  

Sandra McMahon was awarded the Windmill Trust Scholarship in 2004 and has undertaken residencies at Hill End, Bathurst in 2005, Tweed Regional Gallery in 2017, Annandale Sydney in 2019, New England Conservatory of Music in 2020, at Kandos, NSW and at Cockatoo Island, Sydney in 2021.  She has been a finalist in the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award, QLD; JADA Drawing Prize, NSW; John Leslie Art Prize, VIC; Art on Paper Prize, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW; Muswellbrook Drawing Prize, NSW; The Belle Art Prize, VIC; 10th International Polish Drawing Biennale, VIC.  Her work has been included in numerous group shows and she has held several individual exhibitions. Her work is held in both private and public collections.

Stephen Glover

Artist Statement

Stephen is a contemporary abstract artist with a lengthy exhibition history. Always looking for opposites, his work is a symbolic response to the intersection between gesture and geometry. He absorbs multiple influences from observation and memory, yet these are expressed without reference to the literal.

Artist Biography

Stephen Glover is a Melbourne-based artist currently working out of Stain Studio at Burrinja Cultural Centre. He is also a member of the Phillip Island Contemporary Exhibition Space at Berninneit Cultural Centre in Cowes. With a long history of exhibiting in both solo and group shows, Stephen’s work has been widely collected across Australia and internationally in Denmark, Greece, the United States, Germany, England, and India.

In 2018, Stephen received recognition at the renowned Linden New Art Postcard Show. Recent exhibitions include two major solo presentations at Yering Station Art Gallery in 2023, followed by a solo show at Up Gallery in 2024. He is currently preparing for his next solo exhibition, Soft Geometry, to be held at Burrinja Cultural Centre in September–October 2025.

Stephen’s practice is rooted in abstraction, drawing on personal responses to time and place. His work is informed by the legacy of artists such as Robert Ryman, Robert Rauschenberg, Sean Scully, and Alfred Leslie.

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