Tania Matilda

Discarded

5 February – 23 February

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“I once read a book about a time and place where society had become so good at inventing machines to make products that there was an overabundance of things produced. They then felt the need to invent machines to help them consume the items they had made and it became a major task for that society just to consume everything.”

Tania has been collecting old furniture and other discarded items to use as surfaces to paint and draw on. Items that were no longer wanted as cupboard doors or chairs but now perhaps they will be consumed by society as art. There’s always such an abundance of old things people have thrown away because they want to buy new things. She has collected quite a large amount of discarded items and it has become her major task in life to consume them in a sustainable way, repurposing them into artistic expressions. Her convergence of geometric shapes, abstract intersections and collage sit neatly in her unique surfaces which take on an array of shapes and sizes.

About the Artist
Tania is a Melbourne based artist who enjoys creating abstract art on recycled material and studied her Bachelor in Fine Arts at RMIT in 2017. I have also used images from old magazines that were thrown out and collaged them into my work. The paintings and drawings I have created around them are pieces of my unconscious mind, using the technique similar to the ‘Automatic Drawings’ which was developed by the Surrealist and only when filling in the initial drawing with colour do I give consideration to what the final piece will look like which gives a balance of absolute abstract with no control and a considered deliberate piece of artwork.

Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au

Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map

How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens

Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets

Bus: 504 (Reid Street)