Gallery 9 is delighted to present works by Tia Ansell in her solo exhibition Coda. We welcome you to join us in celebrating the opening reception and meet the artist on Wednesday July 3, from 6 - 8pm at Gallery 9. Coda is Tia Ansell's first solo show with the gallery. This exhibition includes weaving paintings that explore the language of abstraction, symbolism, material culture and architectural structures. Ansell deconstructs fundamental elements of a painting by revealing the foundations of the woven substrate and its relationship with the painted image. The canvas is woven on a loom, playing with the structures reliance on the grid by interlacing interchanging threads of colour in the longitude and latitude, warp and weft. The weaving paintings are densely patterned and vibrant matrix of fabric with flat painted geometries that interrupt yet recede into the linear mesh. The painted image speaks to the patterns and symbols of the original landscape, yet blended with gridded patterns becoming a new abstracted image. Coda is comprised of four significant settings drawn from her research trip in 2023 in Italy and followed by a two-month residency at Lottozero in the textile district of Prato, Tuscany where half the weavings were made. The muses being the marble work inside Capelle Medicee in Florence, modern Perilli tower in Milan, 5th century Mosaic works of Mausoleum of Galla Placidia Italy Ravenna and Castelvecchio in Verona. Tia Ansell is a New Zealand born and Melbourne based artist. Tia has a BFA with Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. She has held solo and group exhibitions at various galleries and museums in Australia and New Zealand. Solo exhibitions include Lon Gallery, Suite Gallery Auckland and Wellington, Conners Conners, Station Gallery, Sarah Scout, Caves Gallery and Bus Projects. Group exhibitions include Shepparton Art Gallery, Lon Gallery, Suite Gallery Auckland and Wellington, Conners Conners, Laree Payne Gallery, C Contemporary, Martin Browne Contemporary, Station Gallery, Hugo Michell, Caves Gallery and Bus Projects. Tia has been shortlisted for the Wangaratta Textile Award 2023 and Bayside Acquisitive 2022, the recipient of the Lottozero residency in 2023, McFarlane Fund Kyneton residency in 2019 and the Majlis Travelling award in 2018. Images: Courtesy Gallery9 and the artist.