Lisa Munnelly

Exploring the potential of woven structures through textile making, the exhibition by Lisa Munnelly and Angela Kilford titled Under, Over and Across creates a dialogue between painting, raranga and hand-woven works. As Munnelly seeks to elevate the canvas by exposing the materiality of the surface, Kilford reveals the workings of textile surfaces through upscaled structural motifs and live raranga sessions in the gallery. Together, Under, Over and Across presents painting interwoven with participatory performance practice, public engagement framed and informed by compositions of connection, and an exhibition celebrating the interrelation between material, maker and making.

Munnelly’s work manifests as an intimate study of surface. Through a process of mark-making and measurement, paintings support – the canvas, is celebrated rather than concealed. Carefully measured brushstrokes skim across the surface -highlighting the woven texture of the canvas primer. Measurement is a key aspect of the works; the measure of the brush dictates the scale of the pattern, whilst the weight, direction and speed of each brush stroke determine the tonal range of the marks.