PATTERN RECOGNITION
Liz Coats, Kirsten Farrell, Ngaio Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello, Al Munro, Hannah Quinlivan, Emma Rani Hodges
Curated by Janice Falsone (Director, Canberra Contemporary Art Space), and Jodie Cunningham (CEO + Artistic Director, Craft + Design Canberra)
2 November 2024 – 25 January 2025 (closed 15 December 2024 – 13 January 2025)
Exhibition Opening Friday 1 November 2024: 5:30pm speed artist talks, 6pm opening
The exhibition launch will also feature a performance by vocalist Shikara Ringdahl in collaboration with the work by artist Hannah Quinlivan.
Pattern Recognition celebrates female and non-binary artists from the ACT region who use abstraction and design principles to explore colour perception and spatial relationships, highlighting the variety of ways artists approach colour, geometry, and form. While the artists in the exhibition explore similar visual terrain, embracing non-objective abstraction, repetition and pattern, their underlying conceptual investigations and influences vary and include post-colonial and feminist frameworks, climate activism, architecture, memory, extended pictorial space, mindfulness, and sensory engagement with the materials. The exhibition investigates regeneration, exploring the influence of traditional craft disciplines on contemporary art practice.
A collaborative project presented as part of Regenerate, the 2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival.
Images:
Liz Coats, Essence 16, 2023, Organic pigments on plywood panel, 74 x 76cm. Photo by David Paterson
Kirsten Farrell, Shrine (work in progress), 2024, found plastic exclusion tape, cotton tape, cotton thread, installation, dimensions variable. Photo by Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Ngaio Fitzpatrick, Coral Forms, 2023, Recycled glass, 30 x 25 x 25cm. Photo courtesy of the artist
Emma Rani Hodges & Collaborators, Finding Home, Community Project (detail), 2024, mixed media, dimensions variable. Photo by Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello, Hakea & Grevilia Hu, 2024, Hot brown glass with hand-crafted murine, 24 x 24 x 20cm. Photo by Tim Brooke
Al Munro, study for Quilt 2, 2024, Acrylic on boxboard and wood panels, 150 x 120cm. Photo courtesy of the artist
Hannah Quinlivan, Fluency, 2023, Moulded acrylic, yarn, shadow wire, dimensions variable. Photo by Peter Morgan
