Isadora Vaughan 2022 - Station Gallery

ISADORA VAUGHAN
Residues
7 May – 11 June 2022

STATION | SYDNEY

Residues continues Vaughan’s process-based exploration of the properties of materials and their capacity to suggest meaning beyond themselves – poetic, political, organic or otherwise.

Residues is informed by the artist’s daily practice of walking at the meeting place of two creeks on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land where she lives and works. Acknowledging the inability to recreate a representation of place, the sculptural works in this exhibition are fragments of Vaughan’s experiences of place and her relationship to the site. Traces of this environment are evident in the clay panels embedded with impressions of fallen trees, small plastic tree branches made from pieces of collected pipes, and bronze castings of acacia seed pods found near the creek. There is a deliberate ugliness in Vaughan’s material outcomes, a rawness that is intentionally confounding, but also beautiful.

Vaughan’s immersive environments and discreet stand-alone sculptural works are characterised by tensions between materiality and form, and often bring together readymade and industrial objects with organic matter. Oscillating somewhere between the formal and the alchemical, and employing a process of speculative questioning that draws from geology, craftsmanship and science, Isadora’s works encourage audiences to reflect on and foster a sense of connection with the natural environment.

Isadora Vaughan
Residues 2022
installation view

Isadora Vaughan
Residues 2022
installation view

Isadora Vaughan
Tributaries (Mud) 2021
steel frames with glass insets
176.0 × 60.0 × 36.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Tributaries (Acid) 2022
steel frames with glass insets
176.0 × 60.0 × 36.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Tributaries (Algae) 2021
steel frames with glass insets
176.0 × 60.0 × 36.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Tributaries (Chemical) 2021
steel frames with glass insets
176.0 × 60.0 × 36.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Tributaries (Brine) 2021
steel frames with glass insets
176.0 × 60.0 × 36.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Treasure 2021
ceramic
24.0 × 40.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Doom Drain 2022
fibreglass and recycled plastic, bolts
56.0 × 56.0 × 18.0

Isadora Vaughan
Grub (Remains) 2021
ceramic
78.0 × 65.0 × 6.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Grub (Hooves) 2021
ceramic
40.0 × 53.0 × 43.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Grub (Eclipse) 2021
ceramic
45.0 × 70.0 × 38.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Grub (Chambers) 2021
Grub (Chambers)
48.0 × 50.0 × 40.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Embedding tunnels (Residue) 2021
ceramic panel
30.0 × 30.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Grafted sapling 2021
plastic, epoxy, bolts
54.5 × 32.0 × 28.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Embedding tunnels (Oil) 2021
ceramic panel
58.0 × 38.0 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Embedding tunnels (Undercoat) 2022
ceramic panel
41.0 × 33.5 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Embedding tunnels (Matte) 2021
ceramic panel
61.0 × 34.5 cm

Isadora Vaughan
Embedding tunnels (Gloss) 2021
ceramic panel
48.0 × 48.5 cm