IAG Exhibition Preview: Matters of Time

Catherine Woolley (b. 1995 Warrang/Sydney, lives in Warrang/Sydney) is a curator and programs producer based on Bidjigal and Gadigal Country, Sydney. She has a decade of experience working across curatorial projects, community engagement programs, and education initiatives in the arts and culture sector. She is currently the Curatorial & Public Engagement Officer at UNSW Galleries where she works with leading Australian and international practitioners, curators, writers and cultural thinkers to develop exhibitions and public programs. She has curated the recent exhibitions ‘Matters of Time: Contemporary Metal Practices (touring 2025–27); ‘Lisa Sammut: How the earth will approach you’ (2024); and ‘Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices’ (touring 2022–24, co-curated with Karen Hall).

Augusta Vinall Richardson (b. 1991 Naarm/Melbourne; lives in Naarm/Melbourne) has established herself as a leading sculptor of her generation. In her industrial metal studio in inner-city Melbourne, she works with sheet and cast metals to make abstract composite sculpture. Her hand is present in the drawing of templates that shape the volumes of her modular assemblages, speaking to but departing from the perfect geometries of minimalism and allowing for the expression of organic idiosyncrasy. These alt-ideals continue in her irregular jig-sawing of volumes, a subtle and enlivening disorder in the way they occupy space. Solo and group exhibitions include ‘Primavera: Young Australian Artists’, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2025); ‘Wonder wall’, The Commercial, Sydney (2025); ‘Melbourne Sculpture Biennial: The Burden of Objects’, Villa Alba, Melbourne (2024); and ‘Circles of dialogue’, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo (2023).