Working with gestural painting and embroidery, Rankin’s practice fuses personal experiences and memories with broader references to politics, history, literature and poetry.
 
The artist’s latest exhibition takes its title from her major painting, Sky Sound (2024), which references the poem ‘Earth web’, written by the artist’s mother, the renowned Australian poet and playwright Jennifer Rankin. The new canvases and double-sided works on paper featured in the show combine paint with delicate embroidered passages drawn from a variety of poems, including those by her mother.
 
Combining geometric and organic forms, the compositions feature vibrant interactions between paint splashes, trails, gestures, and the sewn line – elements which coalesce to create topographical and constellatory patterns, evocative of vast landscapes and cosmic realms.

Artist Tour: 19 September 2024, 5-5:30pm
Exhibition Preview: 5.30-8pm

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road Central