Nathalie Anne: Held In Line

Nathalie Anne's work explores what endures when materials meet, transform, and leave their traces.

Working with graphite, watercolour and wood, she engages with substances that carry their own histories of fragmentation and permanence. Graphite is a layered mineral that marks through deliberate erosion. With each stroke, shards of carbon atoms cleave away into tiny fragments, embedding themselves in the grain of the wooden surface. The act of drawing becomes an act of breaking down and building up simultaneously - particles pressed permanently into the wood's cellular structure, lodged in its memory even as subsequent layers are applied.

Just as graphite must fragment to make its mark, we too leave traces through our own giving away - the parts of ourselves that become memory for others, the echoes that persist after we leave the room.

Opening event Thursday 30 April 6pm.