Lily Cummins
The curtain breathes and the room glows lilac
15 mar. — 4 may 2024
Lily Cummins
The curtain breathes and the room glows lilac
15 mar. — 4 may 2024
Image: Lily Cummins, Living with ghosts, 2023, acrylic on timber. Image courtesy the artist.
Image: Lily Cummins, Living with ghosts, 2023, acrylic on timber. Image courtesy the artist.
Lily Cummins
The curtain breathes and the room glows lilac
15 mar. — 4 may 2024
Lily Cummins is a tactile artist living and working on Gundungurra land Mittagong, NSW. Cummins’ work is process driven, creating conversations between repeated forms and structures. Through investigative mark making, the artist explores the disintegration of memory and the inevitable passage of time, exclusively mining her personal experience of remembrance, absence, and loss.
Cummins predominantly works with acrylic, coloured pencils, and water-based drawing materials. Hiding under the saturated colour is a pervasive melancholia, indirectly speaking to themes of grief and sorrow. The works are rich in symbols and recurring motifs; houses, silhouettes and archways or portals flood the surfaces. Small meticulous marks mutate and coalesce, acting as both a physical way of marking time and as a way of showing the dissolution of memory.
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Image: Installation view Lily Cummins The curtain breathes and the room grows lilac, 2024, featuring Lily Cummins, I watched you shift your shape; Lily Cummins, I hope you are in my dreams; Lily Cummins, I will wait for you forever; Lily Cummins, Take me with you now and Lily Cummins, You’re fading, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Installation view Lily Cummins The curtain breathes and the room grows lilac, 2024, featuring Lily Cummins, I will wait for you forever; Lily Cummins, Take me with you now and Lily Cummins, You’re fading, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Installation view Lily Cummins The curtain breathes and the room grows lilac, 2024, featuring Lily Cummins, I watched you shift your shape; Lily Cummins, I hope you are in my dreams; Lily Cummins, I will wait for you forever; Lily Cummins, Take me with you now and Lily Cummins, You’re fading, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Installation view Lily Cummins The curtain breathes and the room grows lilac, 2024, featuring Lily Cummins, I watched you shift your shape and Lily Cummins, I hope you are in my dreams, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Installation view Lily Cummins The curtain breathes and the room grows lilac, 2024, featuring Lily Cummins, I watched you shift your shape (detail) and Lily Cummins, I hope you are in my dreams, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Lily Cummins, Living with ghosts, 2023, acrylic on timber. Image courtesy the artist.
Lily Cummins
The curtain breathes and the room glows lilac
15 mar. — 4 may 2024
Lily Cummins is a tactile artist living and working on Gundungurra land Mittagong, NSW. Cummins’ work is process driven, creating conversations between repeated forms and structures. Through investigative mark making, the artist explores the disintegration of memory and the inevitable passage of time, exclusively mining her personal experience of remembrance, absence, and loss.
Cummins predominantly works with acrylic, coloured pencils, and water-based drawing materials. Hiding under the saturated colour is a pervasive melancholia, indirectly speaking to themes of grief and sorrow. The works are rich in symbols and recurring motifs; houses, silhouettes and archways or portals flood the surfaces. Small meticulous marks mutate and coalesce, acting as both a physical way of marking time and as a way of showing the dissolution of memory.
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Image: Installation view Lily Cummins The curtain breathes and the room grows lilac, 2024, featuring Lily Cummins, I watched you shift your shape; Lily Cummins, I hope you are in my dreams; Lily Cummins, I will wait for you forever; Lily Cummins, Take me with you now and Lily Cummins, You’re fading, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Installation view Lily Cummins The curtain breathes and the room grows lilac, 2024, featuring Lily Cummins, I will wait for you forever; Lily Cummins, Take me with you now and Lily Cummins, You’re fading, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Installation view Lily Cummins The curtain breathes and the room grows lilac, 2024, featuring Lily Cummins, I watched you shift your shape; Lily Cummins, I hope you are in my dreams; Lily Cummins, I will wait for you forever; Lily Cummins, Take me with you now and Lily Cummins, You’re fading, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Installation view Lily Cummins The curtain breathes and the room grows lilac, 2024, featuring Lily Cummins, I watched you shift your shape and Lily Cummins, I hope you are in my dreams, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Installation view Lily Cummins The curtain breathes and the room grows lilac, 2024, featuring Lily Cummins, I watched you shift your shape (detail) and Lily Cummins, I hope you are in my dreams, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.