“Slippery Mattering”
Isadora Vaughan
7 Mar → 5 Apr 2014
Rather than making with a predetermined outcome Slippery Mattering suggests we are collaborators with materials. Entering into conversation with the properties and responding to the behaviors of material gestures and forms, Slippery Mattering plays with what happens when doing and trying confront the forces of gravity, mass, and form in relation to the making of sculpture.
Isadora Vaughan’s practice is motivated by an interest in the capacity of materials to effect and enable understandings of the body and action. Informed by an intensive studio practice dealing with the physical act of making and doing, she works with basic sculptural principles and materials. Isadora has a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honors) from The Victorian College of the Arts, 2013. Recent projects include Soft Eyes, (curated by Pip Wallis) TCB; Dights Mill, Dights Falls (curated by Rex Veal and Joesy Kidd Crowe); Buridins Ass, Collaboration with Kieren Seymour, Utopian Slumps, 2013; Interpreting Variable Arrangements, SUPERMARKET (Stockholm) 2013; Common Room, Curated by Isabelle Sully, Rear View 2012, We Are That Within Which We Operate, Kings ARI 2012.
Isadora Vaughan is a Melbourne based artist working in sculpture. Her practice unpacks and experiments with material as geological, temporal, associative and emotional. Her works manifest out of a chaotic exploratory process into basic states of matter and a desire to personalise, dislocate, and disrupt traditional material hierarchies.