The accumulation of colour and marks in her paintings evoke a sense of the layering of multiple paths travelled and moved through by people, critters and matter within a local environment. Her process of making in the studio is intuitive, wherein she pays attention to matter, light, shadow and changes in atmosphere. Allowing ideas of the home and environments to seep through into her work through material play.

Through this inquiry into the happenings of materials, Scholz Vinall has developed a process of painting/printing, in which layers of canvas and calico are painted onto the studio floor, using diluted oil paint and natural pigments. This allows the paint to seep through layers of woven fabrics, where the crinkling of fabric and pooling of the paint become evidence of the material’s autonomy. Additionally, she often shows the backs of her paintings rather than the fronts. With the front of the painting facing the wall, the intension of the artist’s hand is muted allowing materiality to shift to the forefront. This provides an opportunity for both Scholz Vinall and the viewer to sense beauty without control, momentary happenings and occurrences.

Artist Biography

Yolanda Scholz Vinall is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist who explores ideas surrounding unpaid domestic labour, slowing down, sustainability and connection to local environments through painting, ceramics, installation and video. Her material-led practice is used as a vessel to explore these ideas through making. Engaged with ideas around the sensory and ephemeral nature of memory, site, decay and process, she seeks to offer a hopeful calling to slow down; to build a more nurturing and sustainable relationship with matter and our local, natural environments. Yolanda graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at RMIT University in 2022.