Threads and Traces
  Egg and Dart, Wollongong 2017

Threads and Traces, Install detail, Egg and Dart Wollongong 2017

Camouflage series Black, 2017. Glass, wood, paint

Gabrielle Adamik’s work is a study of material interactions. The shapes
slump like a body that would enjoy being pulled and stretched back to
upright. Kiln-fired glasswork forms ropey and delicate structures, with
Adamik’s material research suggesting different paths that could be
taken to an outcome.
Gabrielle Adamik embraces the Bauhaus approaches of practice before
theory and learning by doing. There is a dissolving of the hierarchies between making, crafting, drawing and physical movement. Explorative drawings reaffirm her work in glass, wire and rope. Ink is dragged across paper and plywood wall plinths with the finger as an echo of the sculptural line described in glass. This is then seen at a larger scale as wire wrapped tightly in rope, a line in space that can be reconfigured, lifted atone end, bouncing and retracting like an uncoiled spring.

Threads and Traces. Install detail