Counterfeit Sanctity at C3 brings together the work of two recent VCA graduates Carmel Seymour and Kate Tucker. In a examination of the transformative power of our belief systems. Carmel produces some beautiful rendered drawings that in addition to their mysterious and contentious content intrigued me. It knocked me off guard. Operating within the understanding of pencil drawing and watercolour she subverts them and plays with her visuals. Enlightening the occult and washing away our magic carpet.

Kate Tucker’s drawings were undeniably joyful. The skill of placement finds us sucked into the planes of existence that she creates cleverly within the two-dimensional. Her play of shape texture and colour are erudite while still holding onto the bold coarse edges and displacing lines. Her functional relationship to objects and symbolism has been digested and reinterpreted to allow her confident and exciting talent as a maker simply do the talking. The piece she named Necklace, gives rise to questions of the boundaries between art and craft that she has supplanted and made her own so easily. Well worth a look.