Ali Noble

Ali Noble’s art is a place where abstraction, colour, craft and totemic elements enigmatically converge. Put more simply, ‘colourful things’. For Noble’s new body of work she experiments with the reduction of decorative motifs, a distillation that reveals the emergence of new organic shapes and voluptuous lines.

Still apparent is Noble’s deep affection for the integrity of the hand-made and the intimacy implied by the gesture of the artist. Noble’s method of hand cutting, arranging and gluing felt – akin to mosaics –imbues her work simultaneously with a sensibility that is vital, and reflective. Fortifying the ritualistic and repetitive construction of Noble’s work is her exuberant use of colour.

Clearly Noble believes that colour has a spirit of its own, and this is best reflected by her playful curiosity regarding how certain colours sit next to each other, and alone. Her hi-fi colour palette emits a frequency, vibrating to a unique tune that is emotional and intuitive.