Join us for the Opening event at ANCA Gallery Wednesday 7 August at 5.30pm

Lineaments by Stephanie Scroope and Jay Kochel runs from Wednesday 7 August to Sunday 25 August 2024.

Meeting somewhere between abstract geometry and representational portraiture, artists Stephanie Scroope and Jay Kochel work independently but relationally to produce the exhibition, Lineaments. Both artists were encouraged to venture into new work in dialogue with the other’s ‘foreign’ practice. It is through the consideration of each other’s work that the two artists have developed the exhibition.

While dissimilar in materials and methodology, both artists have a fundamental interest in the human body. Objects that represent the body or can be used by the body in a haptic sense. From this starting point, preparation for the exhibition has been a catalyst for the artists to create new bodies of work—challenged by their different modes of practice and expression.

Stephanie’s paintings use familiar subjects from her personal life—using the painting process to explore the tensions between intimacy and privacy.

Jay’s work diffuses the intimacy of portraiture by using the artists themselves as the subjects of his work. Technical processes of casting and automated fabrication render the intimacy of the artist’s hand absent.

The exhibition is open Wednesday to Sunday 12–5pm.

Stephanie Scroope, Untitled, 2024, acrylic and oil on canvas, 77 x 65cm

Jay Kochel, Untitled WIP, 2024, engraving on enamel and aluminium composite panel, 120 x120 x1.6cm

Stephanie Scroope is a Canberra-based artist who completed a Fine Arts Honours degree, majoring in painting, at the Australian National University in 2004. Best known for her large scale figuration and portraiture, Stephanie has recently been influenced by her study of textiles.

Jay Kochel has a background in sculpture and digital media. Jay completed a PhD in 2013, focusing on fetish, magic and the power of contemporary art and was an Asialink Resident at the Kyoto Art Center, Japan in 2014.

Jay Kochel is represented by Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne