ALBA is a collaboration between Ellie Dragone and Francesca Mollett that began in 2019. Bringing in distinctive qualities of each practice, we empower one another in our decisions, the dynamic of our conversations driving the growth of the pieces. Working in a scale that demands attention, each piece is an individual that has its own identity through the specific integration of painting and textiles, where original contexts of these disciplines are adopted by one another interchangeably. We vocalise an open-ended intention as a starting point for the work, creating a territory where limitations are formed and broken through improvisation. Ownership is liberated by using each other’s visual languages as tools to access and create a new material language.