PATTERN RECOGNITION

Liz Coates, Kirsten Farrell, Ngaio Fitzpatrick, Jenni Kemarre Martinello, 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.

Image: Emma Rani Hodges Brave (detail), 2024, mixed-media