Collection Online
Medium
coloured felt
Measurements
122.4 × 122.4 cm
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse l.c.: ANNE-MARIE MAY 1993. / UNTITLED (CONSTRUCTION OF COLOURED RAYS).
Accession Number
DC8-1994
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Margaret Stewart Endowment, 1994
© Anne-Marie May, courtesy Murray White Room, Melbourne
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work

Anne-Marie May first exhibited her coloured felt ray ‘paintings’ in the early 1990s at Store 5 in Melbourne, where she exhibited regularly with artists who shared common interests in geometric abstraction and conceptual art. Reflecting on her work from this period, May has stated: ‘By making assemblages from everyday materials, such as felt or denim, I was attempting to link the visual or pictorial experience to objects. I chose to work with the physical nature of materials specifically for their structural qualities – malleabilty, fusion, tension and mass – leading me to invent or appropriate processes from other disciplines, such as craft and design’.