A Caressing Gaze

Australian artist Mason Kimber uses painting, sculptural reliefs, and installation to engage with the social dimension of architecture, particularly its relationship to memory. By reworking images and casts of architectural fragments into new assemblages, Kimber explores how physical facades and interiors can register histories within their skins. 'A Caressing Gaze' brings together recent works, including textural paintings that extend into wall relief and a site-specific installation that gleans impressions from the surfaces of the built environment. Using iterative processes of moulding, casting, and framing, Kimber treats the painted surface as a dynamic site of transformation, activating relations to place, architecture, histories, and memory.