From narrow provinces

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From narrow provinces brings together work by artists whose respective bodies of work take distinct approaches to materials, colour, shapes and structure, and operate in compelling junctures between painting and textiles, sculpture and architecture. The international roster of artists includes: Ruth Laskey, Aleana Egan, Rana Begum, Claire Barclay and Alison Turnbull. 

In From narrow provinces, each of the artists engages in investigations of material and process, investigations to which combinations of colour and shape are integral, as are the inherent behaviours of the materials and processes they choose (in the ways they sit, fold, fall, bend or weave). They are drawn to practical, everyday materials including threads, pigments, cardboard, MDF, and Jesmonite, and pursue manual processes and methods of construction such as drawing, dyeing, weaving, dipping, printing or casting.