Reoccurring;
Happening many times, or happening again.
Through these works, Yolanda Scholz Vinall explores the notion of reoccurring processes, movements and imagery that exist in the ‘everyday’; domestic labour, local environments and methods of making. The accumulation of colour and marks in her paintings evoke a sense of the layering of multiple paths travelled and moved through by people, critters and matter within a local environment. Her process of making in the studio is intuitive, wherein she pays attention to matter, light, shadow and changes in atmosphere. Allowing ideas of the home and environments to seep through into her work through material play.
Through this inquiry into the happenings of materials, Scholz Vinall has developed a unique process of painting/printing, in which layers of canvas and calico are painted onto the studio floor, using diluted oil paint and natural pigments. This allows the paint to seep through layers of woven fabrics, where the crinkling of fabric and pooling of the paint become evidence of the material’s autonomy. Additionally, she shows the backs of her paintings rather than the fronts. With the front of the painting facing the wall, the intension of the artist’s hand is muted allowing materiality to shift to the forefront. This provides an opportunity for both Scholz Vinall and the viewer to sense beauty without control; momentary happenings and occurrences.
A collection of hand-built ceramic vessels sits with the loosely hung paintings, offering a tribute to the home and meditative processes in which functional objects can be made by hand. Through this pairing, the relationship between studio practice, domestic labour and functional objects is explored.