pink puffs upon billowed checks & spotted mossy smudges is a playful, immersive environment. Created from numerous painted paper cuts that entwine upon the walls and cascade from the ceiling to spread upon the floor, this site-specific installation refers to the purpose of the building – a theatre - a place that can transport the audience from the everyday.
Akin to the intention of the installation, which invites the viewer to enter a portal into an imaginative world, and discover characters enmeshed in poetic, colourful scenes that unfold throughout the gallery space, engulfing the viewer in a labyrinthine world.
The installation is accompanied by an immersive soundscape, created in response to the work, by sound designer and digital artist Anna Tow.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Fiona Cabassi is a visual artist based in Melbourne/Naarm on the lands of the Wurundjeri people. She has a Bachelor of Education in Visual Arts and a Post Graduate Diploma in Multimedia. Primarily working with paper, she creates immersive installations, wall installations, suspended sculptures, smaller sculptures, and paper cut animations.
Cabassi has exhibited in group exhibitions, art prizes and has had a number of solo exhibitions, most recently in 2024 at Parallel Projects, Footscray.
In 2000 she won The Banyule Works on Paper Award and the People's Choice Award, and has been a finalist in the 2024 Paul Guest Art Prize at Bendigo Art Gallery, the National Works on Paper at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery in 2012, 2014, and 2022, winning the People's Choice Award in 2022, and was runner-up in the Hutchins Works on Paper Art Prize in 2009 and winner of the People's Choice Award.
Cabassi has undertaken art commissions for Bundoora Homestead Art Centre and Heide Museum of Modern Art – Heide Store. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia.
Image credit: Fiona Cabassi billowed checks & spotted smudges of sweeping moss (detail) 2024, acrylic, ink and pen on paper, Photo by ©JanelleLow
Kingston Arts Centre
979-985 Nepean Hwy
Moorabbin VIC 3189
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The Public Galleries Association of Victoria (PGAV) acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the lands where our office is located, and all Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria and Australia. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enduring traditions and continuing creative cultures. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
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