Opening: Thursday 18 March @ 6pm

Distillation is an exhibition of works on paper by Canberra Artist Elefteria Vlavianos. The exhibition features work inspired by a recent visit to the Benaki Museum in Athens, which has a significant textile collection from Asia Minor dating back to the Byzantine era. The artist has examined the lace, embroidery and filigree work an important feature of the collection and drawn inspiration from the motifs and patterns in the intricate needlework - arrangements of threads into diamond, elliptical and circular motifs. Using paper, paint and press-studs, Vlavianos has translated both the imagery and techniques of embossing, inlay and filigree into a contemporary context.

“Through my research at the Benaki Museum I have continued to find immense pleasure in the most intimate of details relating to the smallest of cultural objects. Ongoing themes within my work are memory, renewal, vibration, beauty and time.”