22–30 November 2019
Mon-Fri: 10am – 5pm
Saturday: 12–5pm
Monash University
Art Design & Architecture
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East, Victoria
Ella Heckendorf
Ella Heckendorf’s practice is a frantic play of organised chaos and polychromatic palettes. Interested in testing the boundaries of excess and elements of bad taste, her work becomes a free fall of multidisciplinary endeavours. Often focused on expressing states of euphoria and saturation of colour, her work becomes a labyrinth of pattern, print, texture, form, textile and material. Her current collection of works is a direct reference to nostalgia of the 80s and 90s time of kitsch textile and taste.
Collaging both detailed knitting patterns and existing ugly sweaters, the work mutates into a chaotic abstraction of textiles. Contrasting her interests in colour theory and form, her work crosses the borders between painting, collage and abstraction attempting to bleed them together creating a new form. Sculpturally the work aims to perform a sense of playful disobedience towards the existing masculine architecture, looking to subvert this dominance and shift the power in an eccentric manner.
Collaging both detailed knitting patterns and existing ugly sweaters, the work mutates into a chaotic abstraction of textiles. Contrasting her interests in colour theory and form, her work crosses the borders between painting, collage and abstraction attempting to bleed them together creating a new form. Sculpturally the work aims to perform a sense of playful disobedience towards the existing masculine architecture, looking to subvert this dominance and shift the power in an eccentric manner.