Augusta Vinall Richardson (b. 1991, l. Naarm/Melbourne) works with sheet and cast metals in the production of abstract composite sculpture. Each modular element is created individually and has its own integrity and idiosyncratic form but, in a puzzle-like way, becomes part of a larger, typically box-like assemblage. Vinall Richardson’s works occupy an aesthetic space adjacent to ‘serious modernist sculpture’ but retain an implicit humour and somewhat playful disposition. Her objects, suspended, free-standing and wall-based in stainless steel, aluminium, bronze and silver, utilize the materials and machinery of industry in their making though convey an experience of making and of perception that is substantially more tender. The artist has said that her “tools and equipment are like personalities one must get to know”. This sense of the complex of interpersonal relationships between viewer and object is embedded in her work.