Shaping Ideas brings together artists who reveal how thinking unfolds through the act of making. Across abstraction, printmaking, sculpture, and installation, the exhibition examines how concepts take material form — through geometry, gesture, rhythm, repetition, and the interplay of control and chance. Some artists work through systems and precision; others through intuition, improvisation, or the immediacy of touch.

The exhibition moves from ordered structures and optical investigations to expressive mark-making, experimental processes, and reflections on nature, species, and Country. Together, the works demonstrate that art is a site where thought is shaped, tested, and transformed— not only by the artist’s intention but through the materials they handle and the ways we encounter them. Shaping Ideas invites viewers to consider how meaning arises through this dynamic exchange between mind, material, and perception.

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