Lucina Lane and Alexandra Peters

It could be viewed, if you are to present two artists together, this highlights the characteristic solitude of the artist. For their act of making is an endeavour undertaken in a haze of self-reflecting (critiquing, referencing, etc.) motions and decisions. When they are coupled, the “self” becomes more defined. Gestures, materials, concepts, aesthetic considerations and so on are highlighted for their individuality — contrasting against the characteristic of the other artist they sit in context with. Something a larger grouping of artists does not offer with such concentration. This presentation of two artists — Lucina Lane and Alexandra Peters — on the same stage speaks to apparent overarching sensibilities and similarities: language, the adoption of materials, ideas of “expanded painting”, histories of abstraction and so on, but by the very nature of acknowledging these equivalences, it only highlights their truly individual and rich practices, their artistic solitude.

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Lucina Lane deftly combines painterly poetics and materiality with resourcefulness and improvisation, salvaging and repurposing found materials and histories – whether art historical, social, contextual or linguistic – into conceptually charged works which resonate beyond their time and place.
Lane lives and works in Melbourne; her works have been exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally, with key presentations at The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; ANCA, Canberra; Hot Wheels Athens London, Athens; Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington; and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney.

Alexandra Peters’ practice spans the mediums of painting, print, sculpture, and assemblage, often taking the form of an installation. These arrangements explore the field of expanded painting through the interrogation of support structures and framing devices. This process guides and restricts how the viewer is subsumed within a currency divided between the two-dimensionality of pictorial space and the three-dimensionality of sculpture.
Peters lives and works in Melbourne; exhibitions of her work have been presented at The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; Asbestos, Melbourne; NAP Contemporary, Mildura; and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth.