Kate Vassallo presented Connections, a solo exhibition exploring the relationship between systems, repetition and chance through painting.
Kate develops materially driven processes that combine structured rules, repetitive labour and the unpredictability of handmade textures. Her practice considers the tension between precision and spontaneity, allowing both intention and chance to shape each work.
The exhibition brought together a series of paintings slowly built up through thin, ritualistic layers of acrylic paint. Using a disciplined mark-making process, Kate applied each layer by dragging a brush in a consistent radial direction, allowing rules to guide the composition, colour and density of each work.
Through these softly geometric compositions, Kate explored colour and light while embedding a sense of time, memory and labour into the surfaces of her paintings.
