Soft wall 1

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This textile painting, titled Soft wall 1, created by Kylie Banyard with the assistance of Saskia van Pagee Anderson, is displayed on the left-hand side of the sculptural installation. The material is loosely pulled across a thin cylindrical piece of wood which has been hung from the ceiling using wires. This textile painting is approximately 2.9m high by 2.4m wide. The bottom edge of the textile painting lightly grazes the floor.

Two colours make up the border of this art piece, a dark green border on the left-hand side and red on the right. Each colour starts in the middle at the top edge of the work and the border finishes as the colours meet together in the middle along the bottom edge, creating a rectangular shape in the middle.

 In the middle of the square, loosely shaped rectangles appear vertically and take up the majority of the space. The bright blue rectangle, which is on the right, is taller than the pale pink rectangle on the left. The pink and blue slightly overlap with each other creating a thin, vertical purple stripe. A bright yellow colour appears above the pink and blue rectangles but does not overlap.

Across the surface of the work are outlines of circles which have been spray painted over in either black or white.  Three painted circles, like large polka dots, are visible. Two of which are milky-white and another which is a mixture of swirling light and dark green. There are three triangles, also milky-white in colour, which allows some of the base colours, like the pink, blue and red, to appear through.

There are paint-dripping marks at various points on the surface of the work. Some of the paint drips appear to be milky-white in colour however also take on the colour that is positioned beneath it. Throughout the work, there are also black smudge marks.

Completing this textile painting, running from top to bottom on the left hand side and on the outer edge of the dark green border, is a thin strip of multicoloured patchwork.