CAuSAL RELATIONSHIPs | lUCY CHETCUTI

Gallery 1 | 1 - 26 June2022

This exhibition of recent collages and sculptures by Lucy Chetcuti explore queer relationality in abstraction. These artworks are produced through incidence and unplanned causality in which one mark influences the next mark. By presenting works as “phenomena” and in dialogue with each other, an alternative experience of their spatial reality and inter-relation is inferred. These artworks explore the ways that abstraction can be used to queer normative understandings of nature. Lucy emphasises the material state of the works as fragile, precarious, and temporal by incorporating found and natural materials outside of their economic value.

Lucy Chetcuti is an Maltese-Australian emerging visual artist based on unceded Ngunnawal/Ngambri land, ACT. Lucy was a founding board member of Tributary Projects Artspace (CBR). In 2021 she won the ANU School of Art and Design Drawing Prize. In 2021 she was awarded the Allinsure Emerging Artist Award through the Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation. She received First Class in Honours in Painting at the ANU School of Art and Design in 2021. She is currently undertaking a studio residency at M16 Artspace as part of her Emerging Artist Support Scheme award.

Front Image: Lucy Chetcuti, Remnants, 2022, plaster, oil and mixed media on paper, 19 x 14.5cm. Photo Brenton McGeachie