Trace Elements
Eveline KOTAI: artist
Since 1980, Kotai has worked across various media including, painting, drawing, printmaking and textiles. Landscape and natural surroundings inform her work which for some years has included stitched collages paintings, a self-devised technique which involves the artist cutting up her paintings into thin strips and reconfiguring them across a surface with the use of a sewing machine and invisible thread. This process, with its absorption of Kotai’s interest in Buddhist ritual and its embrace of the unpredictable, allows for infinite stylistic variations and uses colours to create pattern and rhythms across the canvas. Recently, she has assimilated this methodology into furniture, scarves, carpets and built forms.
Title
Trace Elements
Artist/Maker and role
Eveline KOTAI: artist
Date
2016
Medium
Mixed media on canvas
Measurements
122.0 x 59.5cm (each of 5 panels) minor variations in width.
Display location
Credit line
Purchased through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: TomorrowFund, 2017
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
2017/0078.a-e