DENSE MATTER
21 November – 13 December 2025
Detail: Anna Dunnill, Held (2), 2025, tapestry woven from hemp, hand-spun silk, studio waste, found metal, 95 x 70 cm. Photo: Murphy Whitmore.
Solo exhibition at CAVES, Naarm/Melbourne.
“Our materials come to us already ground and chipped and crushed and powdered and mixed and sliced, so that only the finale in the long sequence of operations from matter to product is left to us: we merely toast the bread. No need to get our hands into the dough.” – Anni Albers, “Tactile Sensibility”, 1965
The works in Dense Matter revel in the intrinsic potency of material. Thread scraps, aluminium foil, collected detritus, garden prunings – these cast-off things are gathered up and transformed.
The exhibition presents a series of new textiles by Anna Dunnill, and one made in collaboration with Isabelle Rudolph. The latter is a suspended sculpture constructed from hundreds of beads, which themselves were individually hand-made from pulped flower petals by the artists and their friends.
