UTAS x SAWTOOTH ARI : Artist panel talk - Lucy Wilson and Chloe Catto

Inveresk Library, Level 2, Room 216 , Invermay, TAS 7248

Ways of Knowing – artists Lucy Wilson and Chloe Catt , facilitated by Zara Sully, Director of Sawtooth ARI

Ways of Knowing – artist panel

Join us on Thursday, 4^th April, at 5.15 pm at the University of Tasmania's (@universityoftasmania)

Inveresk Library, Level 2, Room 216 for an artist panel discussion with artists Lucy Wilson (@lucy.dw) and Chloe Catto (@_chloecatto), facilitated by Zara Sully (@zarasully.art), Director of Sawtooth ARI @sawtootharigallery. Lucy and Chloe will talk about their recent work and creative processes as part of the UTAS x Sawtooth Vitrine series.

Lucy and Chloe’s works are currently on display as part of the ‘UTAS x Sawtooth Vitrine series,’ now at Inveresk Library, Level 3. You can view their works during business hours until 27 May 2025

NOTE:
If you  chose to attend online a Zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the start of the event.

About the works / artists:

Chloe Catto

(Anti)-Masterpiece, 2025, mixed media, dimensions vary

Artist Statement:

This work explores how objects and materials—both physical and ideological—are formed, reformed, and interconnected within systems of value that shape our relationship to material culture and progress. We face an ecological reckoning, as the planet can no longer sustain the relentless demands of a system that mines, produces, expands, and discards. By recontextualizing debased industrial detritus, I aim to highlight the latent autonomy and potential of the materials, positioning them in a constant negotiation between stability and collapse. As the materials unravel from their previously assigned contexts, they emulate patterns of entropy—aggregating, fusing, and mutating into hybrid forms.

Sculpture becomes a means to metaphorically dismantle, decelerate, and liberate matter from modernist ideologies of progress and efficiency. As Richard Flood writes in Unmonumental: Objects of the 21st Century, “Our time demands the anti-masterpiece, things that are cobbled together. Stubby, brutish forms that know something of the world in which they are made to tell a contemporary story” (Flood, 2007, p. 13).

Flood, R. (2007). Not about Mel Gibson. In R. Flood, L. Hoptman, & M. Gioni (Eds.), Unmonumental: The object in the 21st century, 10–13. Phaidon Press Limited.

Chloe Catto is an emerging artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart, working across sculpture, installation, ceramics, and printmaking. Her practice engages with the urban environment and systems of control, exploring themes of material agency, precarity, and entropy. Through quasi-architectural and bodily forms, she examines the entangled relationships between built structures, human bodies, and their surroundings, evoking processes of transformation and dissolution.

Lucy Wilson

frictions, 2025, steel, enamel paint, mdf panel, dimensions vary

Artist Statement:

I am interested in the uncertainty of subjective experience and the instability implicit in everyday modes of representation. Working with familiar, ready-made materials, my work engages failure, humour and the anticipatory as means for creating moments of slippage and revealing the constructive potential of indeterminacy and not knowing.

Lucy Wilson lives and works on Wurundjeri land in Naarm / Australia.