Apparent Structures
The Lennox, Melbourne
14th to 24th August, 2025
Exploring the tension between natural processes and human made form
Renowned artist Su Baker presents a compelling new body of work in her latest exhibition, Apparent Structures, opening August 14th at The Lennox, Melbourne. In this exhibition, Baker extends her recent explorations of materiality, gesture, and abstraction, inviting audiences to engage with the subtle interplay between surface and structure.
Moving beyond the figurative and towards the elemental, Baker allows paint to find its own image. The resulting works reflect a dialogue between the organic flow of pigment and the quiet imposition of the canvas's physical framework - its weave, grain, and the subtle shadow of stretchers beneath. These ghostly impressions speak not only to the materials themselves, but to the unseen systems that shape our experience of art, space, and meaning.
"I'm interested in what happens when the material asserts itself - when paint, canvas, and structure negotiate their own relationship," says Baker. "There's something both vulnerable and insistent in what emerges."