Victoria Cattoni and Wendy Howard

Collision: The Convergence Project #3

10 September – 4 October 2025
Main gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday the 13th of September 2 – 4 pm 
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What began as an exploratory collaboration around the points of intersection of our individual art practices in 2022, has since developed into a more idiosyncratic and layered conversation around non-representational form. The first presentation in our collaboration, “Points of Convergence”, was shown in Rosalie Gallery in 2022, one of the Toowoomba Regional Art Galleries. This was then followed by “The Convergence Project #2” at West End Art Space in 2023.

“Points of Convergence”, our first exhibition sought to explore the points of convergence of our practice directly. Here we saw each other’s recent work for the first time and witnessed these works in conversation. The second collaboration, at West End Art Space, was much more focused on seeking specific convergences with the pairing of works, again though, with no previous planning for this pairing in the creation of the works.

What is clear to both artists is that this collaboration, and specifically the creative installation process, has stimulated an increased volume and development of the works. Since “The Convergence Project #2” both artists are moving towards a more poetic expression of non-representation where titles and concepts arrive after production. As a result there is a collision of imagery amid the convergence of shape, colour and texture. The welding of these disparate pieces at the moment of installation is unpredictable but the most exciting aspect of the creation of the exhibition for both Cattoni and Howard.